The 2021 Calabrian regional election took place in

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, on 3 and 4 October 2021, following the dissolution of the regional parliament after the death of regional president

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. It was originally scheduled to take place on 14 February 2021, then on 11 April 2021, and was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy.

Electoral system

Even if a district list is linked to a regional list that exceeds 8% of the vote, the district list must obtain at least 4% of the vote in the whole region in order to elect their own representatives. To ensure governance, the candidate who receives the most votes wins a majority bonus of 55% of the seats.

Parties and candidates

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

Potential candidates

Centre-left coalition The centre-left coalition ( it, coalizione di centro-sinistra) is an political alliance, alliance of list of political parties in Italy, political parties in Italy active, under several forms and names, since 1995 when The Olive Tree (Italy), Th ...

: Jasmine Cristallo, Anna Falcone

Pietro Grasso Pietro Grasso (; born 1 January 1945), also known as Piero Grasso, is an Italian anti-mafia magistrate and politician who served as President of the Senate from 2013 to 2018. Grasso became the Acting President of Italy on 14 January 2015, upon th ...

Marco Minniti Marco Minniti (; born 6 June 1956) is an Italian politician. A member of the Democratic Party, he served in the government of Italy as Minister of the Interior from 12 December 2016 to 1 June 2018. Previously, he was one of the most prominent coun ...

, Franco Mirabelli, Antonio Viscomi. *

Centre-right coalition The centre-right coalition ( it, coalizione di centro-destra) is an alliance of political parties in Italy, active—under several forms and names—since 1994, when Silvio Berlusconi entered politics and formed his Forza Italia party. Despite ...

: Sergio Abramo, Fulvia Caligiuri, Gianluca Gallo, Maria Limardo,

Mario Occhiuto Mario Occhiuto (born 6 January 1964), is an Italian politician and architect. Occhiuto was born in Cosenza and trained as an architect at the University of Florence The University of Florence (Italian: ''Università degli Studi di Firenze'', ...

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Five Star Movement The Five Star Movement ( it, Movimento 5 Stelle , M5S) is a political party in Italy. Its leader and president is Giuseppe Conte, Prime Minister of Italy from 2018 until 2021. The M5S was founded on 4 October 2009 by Beppe Grillo, a comedian an ...

: Nicola Morra.

Withdrawn candidates

: Nicola Irto, Maria Antonietta Ventura.

Opinion polls

Candidates

Parties

Results

References

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