The municipal elections in

Bologna Bologna (, , ; egl, label= Emilian, Bulåggna ; lat, Bononia) is the capital and largest city of the Emilia-Romagna region in Northern Italy. It is the seventh most populous city in Italy with about 400,000 inhabitants and 150 different nat ...

took place on 3 and 4 October 2021. The incumbent

Mayor of Bologna The Mayor of Bologna is an elected politician who, along with the Bologna’s City Council, is accountable for the strategic government of Bologna, the regional capital of Emilia-Romagna, Italy. Overview According to the Italian Constitution, th ...

was

Virginio Merola Virginio Merola (born 14 February 1955) is an Italian politician. Merola is a member of the Democratic Party and former Mayor of Bologna. Early life Virginio Merola was born on 14 February 1955 in Santa Maria Capua Vetere in the Province of Case ...

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, who won the

2016 Bologna municipal election Municipal elections were held in Bologna on 5 and 19 June 2016. The centre-left candidate Virginio Merola was elected mayor at the second round with 54.64% of votes. Voting system The voting system is used for all mayoral elections in Italy, in t ...

. The centre-left candidate

Matteo Lepore Matteo Lepore (born 10 October 1980) is an Italian politician, member of the Democratic Party (PD) and he is serving as mayor of Bologna since 11 October 2021. Early life Lepore was born in Bologna in 1980 and grew up in the Savena district. He a ...

won in a landslide with 62% of votes, becoming the most voted mayor since the introduction of direct elections in 1995.

Electoral system

The voting system is used for all mayoral elections in Italy, in the cities with a population higher than 15,000 inhabitants. Under this system, voters express a direct choice for the mayor or an indirect choice voting for the party of the candidate's coalition. If no candidate receives 50% of votes during the first round, the top two candidates go to a second round after two weeks. The winning candidate obtains a majority bonus equal to 60% of seats. During the first round, if no candidate gets more than 50% of votes but a coalition of lists gets the majority of 50% of votes or if the mayor is elected in the first round but its coalition gets less than 40% of the valid votes, the majority bonus cannot be assigned to the coalition of the winning mayor candidate. The election of the City Council is based on a direct choice for the candidate with a maximum of two preferential votes, each for a different gender, belonging to the same party list: the candidate with the majority of the preferences is elected. The number of the seats for each party is determined proportionally, using D'Hondt seat allocation. Only coalitions with more than 3% of votes are eligible to get any seats.

Background

Centre-left primary election

Endorsements

=Matteo Lepore

= *

Anna Ascani Anna Ascani (born 17 October 1987) is an Italian politician. Biography Ascani obtained a Bachelor in Philosophy in 2009 at the University of Perugia, and a master's degree at the University of Trento in 2012. Since 2016 she is enrolled in th ...

( PD), current Vicepresident of the Democratic Party (2019–today) and Undersecretary for Economic Development (2021–today) *

Stefano Bonaccini Stefano Bonaccini (born 1 January 1967) is an Italian politician and member of the Democratic Party (PD). He has been serving as the president of Emilia-Romagna since 24 November 2014. Bonaccini started his political career in the post-communist ...

( PD), current

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(2014–today) * Emily Marion Clancy ( SI), municipal councillor for Bologna (2016–today) *

Giuseppe Conte Giuseppe Conte (; born 8 August 1964) is an Italian jurist, academic, and politician who served as Prime Minister of Italy, prime minister of Italy from June 2018 to February 2021. He has been the president of the Five Star Movement (M5S) sin ...

(

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), former

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(2018–2021) *

Valentina Cuppi Valentina Cuppi (born 19 August 1983) is an Italian politician, and President of the Democratic Party (PD) since February 2020. Since June 2019, she is also serving as mayor of Marzabotto, a town near Bologna. Biography Valentina Cuppi was born ...

( PD), current President of the Democratic Party (2020–today), mayor of

Marzabotto Marzabotto ( Medial Mountain Bolognese: ) is a small town and ''comune'' in Italian region Emilia-Romagna, part of the Metropolitan City of Bologna. It is located south-southwest of Bologna by rail, and lies in the valley of the Reno. The area inc ...

(2019–today) * Andrea De Maria ( PD), Member of the

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(2013–today), mayor of

(1995–2004) *

Vasco Errani Vasco Errani (born 17 May 1955) is an Italian politician. He was a founding member of the Democratic Party (PD), which he has left on 22 February 2017, to join the Democratic and Progressive Movement, a party founded by the former PD left-wing ...

( Art.1), former

(1999–2014) * Cathy La Torre (

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), lawyer and

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, municipal councillor for Bologna (2011–2016) *

Nicola Fratoianni Nicola Fratoianni (born 4 October 1972) is an Italian politician, member of the Chamber of Deputies and Secretary of Italian Left from 2017 to 2019 and again since 2021. Biography Fratoianni was born in Pisa to parents from Ururi, province of C ...

( SI), current Secretary of

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(2017–2019; 2021–today) *

Enrico Letta Enrico Letta (; born 20 August 1966) is an Italian politician who served as Prime Minister of Italy from April 2013 to February 2014, leading a grand coalition of centre-left and centre-right parties. Since March 2021, Letta has been secretary ...

( PD), current Secretary of the Democratic Party (2021–today) and former

(2013–2014) *

( PD), current

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(2011–today) *

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( PD), current

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(2014–today) *

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(

), former

(1996–1998; 2006–2008) * Peppe Provenzano ( PD), current Deputy secretary of the Democratic Party (2021–today) and former Minister for Territorial Cohesion (2019–2021) * Mattia Santori (

), leader of the

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* Elly Schlein ( GI), current Vicepresident of

(2020–today) *

Nicola Zingaretti Nicola Zingaretti (; born 11 October 1965) is an Italian politician who served as President of Lazio and was Secretary of the Democratic Party from March 2019 until March 2021. During the 1990s, he was a prominent European youth leader, servi ...

( PD),

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(2013–today) and former Secretary of the Democratic Party (2019–2021)

=Isabella Conti

= * Alberto Aitini ( PD), municipal assessor for Bologna (2016–today) * Mauro Felicori (

), regional assessor of Culture (2020–today) *

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( CpE), Minister of Environment (2014–2018), member of the

(2006–2013) * Elisabetta Gualmini ( PD),

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of the

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(2019–today) * Marco Lombardo ( PD), municipal assessor for Bologna (2016–today) *

Matteo Renzi Matteo Renzi (; born 11 January 1975) is an Italian politician who served as prime minister of Italy from 2014 to 2016. He has been a senator for Florence since 2018. Renzi has served as the leader of Italia Viva (IV) since 2019, having been ...

( IV), member of the Senate of the Republic (2018–today), former

(2014–2016) * Giampiero Veronesi ( PD), Mayor of

Anzola dell'Emilia Anzola dell'Emilia ( Western Bolognese: ) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Bologna in the Italian region Emilia-Romagna, located about northwest of Bologna. It is an important area of industries and Habanero's crops near ...

(2014–today)

Parties and candidates

This is a list of the parties (and their respective leaders) which will participate in the election.

Opinion polls

Candidates

Parties

Results

Notes: if a defeated candidate for Mayor obtained over 3% of votes, he/she is automatically elected communal councilor (Battistini); see Italian electoral law of 1993 for ''Comuni''. The candidate elected Mayor is not a member of communal council, but Merola votes in the communal council (see ''Italian electoral law 1993'').

References

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2021 elections in Italy

Electoral system

Background

Centre-left primary election

Endorsements

=Matteo Lepore

=Isabella Conti

Parties and candidates

Opinion polls

Candidates

Parties

Results

See also

References