2021 Rome Municipal Election

Municipal elections took place in Rome, Italy, on 3 and 4 October 2021, with a runoff round on 17 and 18 October 2021. Open for election were the post of Mayor of Rome and the 49 seats of the City Council of Rome, as well as the presidents and councils of each of the fourteen urban subdivisions (''municipi'').

Roberto Gualtieri of the Democratic Party (PD) was elected Mayor, winning in the runoff against centre-right independent Enrico Michetti with just over 60% of the vote. The incumbent mayor since 2016, Virginia Raggi of the Five Star Movement (M5S), was defeated after failing to qualify for the runoff.

Electoral system

The voting system is used for all mayoral elections in Italy's 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

=Roberto Gualtieri

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* Monica Cirinnà ( PD), Senator (2013-present)
* Enrico Letta ( PD), current Secretary of the Democratic Party (2021–today) and former Prime Minister (2013–2014)
* Nicola Zingaretti ( PD), President of Lazio (2013–today), former Secretary of the Democratic Party (2019–2021)

=Giovanni Caudo

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* Giuseppe Civati, leader of Possible (2016–2018)
* Ignazio Marino, former Mayor of Rome (2013–2015)

Parties and candidates

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

Opinion polls

Centre-left primary election

First round

Second round

Raggi vs. Calenda

Raggi vs. Gualtieri

Raggi vs. Michetti

Gualtieri vs. Calenda

Gualtieri vs. Michetti

Calenda vs. Michetti

Parties

Results

In the first round, the centre-right candidate Enrico Michetti came first with 30% of the vote, and the centre-left candidate Roberto Gualtieri came second with 27% of the vote; therefore the two candidates passed on to the runoff ballot. Incumbent mayor Virginia Raggi of the M5S was defeated and came fourth with just 19% of the vote, right after the centrist candidate Carlo Calenda.

In the runoff round, Gualtieri won with above 60% of the vote.

Declined candidates

Center-left coalition

* Fabrizio Barca, former Minister of Regional Affairs and Territorial Cohesion (2011–2013)
* Monica Cirinnà, Senator (2013-present)
* Giuseppe Conte, former Prime Minister of Italy (2018–2021)
* Enrico Letta, former Prime Minister of Italy (2013–2014)
* David Sassoli, President of the European Parliament since 2019
* Nicola Zingaretti, President of Lazio since 2013

Center-right coalition

* Andrea Abodi, businessman
* Guido Bertolaso, head of Civil Protection (2001–2010)
* Rita dalla Chiesa, journalist
* Massimo Giletti, journalist
* General Claudio Graziano, Chairman of the European Union Military Committee since 2018
* Giorgia Meloni, leader of Brothers of Italy
* Nicola Porro, journalist

See also

* 2021 Italian local elections

References

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