The 2013 Lombard regional election took place on 24 and 25 February 2013 and was the first

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in Lombard political history, and the first one paired with a

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. The 10th term of the Regional Council was chosen.

Electoral system

Lombardy used for the first time its own legislation to elect its Council, very similar to national ''Tatarella Law'' of 1995. The new electoral law was adopted before the resignation of 74 members of the Council on October 26, 2012. While the

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and the

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are still elected

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, 78 councillors, instead of 64 as it was before, are elected by

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s under a form of

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. The winning coalition receives a jackpot of at least 45 seats, which are divided between all

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, as it happens between the losing lists. Each party then distributes its seats to its provincial lists, where candidates are openly selected.

Campaign

On 16 October 2012, Formigoni announced the dissolution of the regional legislature after one of his commissioners, Domenico Zambetti of the PdL was arrested on accusations he bought votes from the 'Ndrangheta in 2010 and extorted favours and public building contracts, including construction tenders for the World Expo 2015 in Milan.Italy corruption probes claim Lombardy legislature
Miami Herald, 16 October 2012
Financial Times, 14 October 2012

Center-left primary election, 2012

On 15 December 2012 the center-left primary election took place to decide the official candidate of the coalition in the election. There were three candidates: Umberto Ambrosoli, son of Giorgio killed in 1979, Alessandra Kustermann and

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. Umberto Ambrosoli received the 57% of the votes and became the center-left official candidate for the regional election.
La Repubblica, December 16, 2012.

Parties and candidates

Results

According to the final results,

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was the new

with more than 40% of the votes, obtaining the greater bonus given by the electoral law.

Results by province

Results by capital city

Seats by province

References

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