The municipal elections in

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took place on 3 and 4 October 2021. The incumbent

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was Virginio Merola of

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, who won the

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. 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-communis ...

( PD), current

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

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( M5S), 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

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

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(2013–today), mayor of

(1995–2004) * Vasco Errani ( Art.1), former

(1999–2014) * Cathy La Torre (

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), lawyer and LGBT activist, municipal councillor for Bologna (2011–2016) *

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( SI), current Secretary of

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(2017–2019; 2021–today) *

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

(2013–2014) * Virginio Merola ( PD), current

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(2011–today) * Dario Nardella ( 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 Sardines movement *

Elly Schlein Elena Ethel "Elly" Schlein (; born 4 May 1985) is an Italian politician and the secretary of the Democratic Party (PD) since 12 March 2023. She is a member of Italy's Chamber of Deputies and was previously the vice-president of Emilia-Romagna an ...

( GI), current Vicepresident of

(2020–today) *

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( PD), President of Lazio (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) * Gian Luca Galletti ( CpE), Minister of Environment (2014–2018), member of the

(2006–2013) *

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( PD),

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of the

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

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

(2014–2016) * Giampiero Veronesi ( PD), Mayor of Anzola dell'Emilia (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