Saturday 8 And The 2024 regional elections will be held on Sunday 9 June in Piedmont to elect the new governor and the regional council. Voters will be asked to choose one of the 5 presidential candidates: Alberto Cirio (from Forza Italia, outgoing governor supported by the centre-right), Gianna Pentenero (centre-left), Sarah Disabato (M5S), Alberto Costanzo (Freedom), Francesca Frediani (No Tav activist, popular Piedmont list). Here you are when and how to vote.
Piedmont Regional Elections 2024: date, polling times, ballot
The 2024 regional elections in Piedmont will take place on Saturday 8 June (polling stations open from 3pm to 11pm) and Sunday 9 June (seats open from 7am to 11pm), in conjunction with the European elections.
Upon closing, we will proceed immediately with the bare. Unlike the administrative elections, i.e. the elections that elect the mayor of a municipality, to the regional ones There is no runoff: the game then ends at first round.
A voter voting during the regional elections in Piedmont in 2019
Who are the candidates
In Piedmont the game is between:
- Alberto Cirio (centre-right);
- Gianna Pentenero (centre-left and United States of Europe);
- Sarah Disabato (M5S);
- Alberto Costanzo (Freedom);
- Francesca Frediani (Popular Piedmont).
How to vote
The voter will have a ballot and will find in the rectangles the first name and the surname of the person candidate for president.
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In part a left instead, the symbols will be present lists who support the candidate for governor.
Voters will be able, by choice, to cast their vote:
- for a list district, making a mark on the relevant marker. In this case, the vote is considered validly expressed also in favor of candidate President connected to the list. If the candidate simply expresses his preference vote next to a mark on a list, the vote is considered cast in favor of this list provided that the candidate is present in the same list. Where this condition is respected, the vote is considered validly expressed also in favor of the Presidential candidate connected to the list;
- for the candidate for President and for his list regional, by drawing a mark on the name of the chosen candidate or on the mark of the regional list, and for a district list connected to him, by making a mark on the relevant mark;
- for the Presidential candidate only and for its regional list, without any constituency list vote, by placing a mark on the name of the chosen candidate or on the mark of the regional list (in this case, the vote is assigned solely to the President candidate);
- for a Presidential candidate and for his regional list, by tracing a mark on the name of the chosen candidate or on the mark of the regional list, and for an unconnected constituency list, by making a mark on the relevant mark (so-called vote disjointed).
The voter can express up to two preferences writing the surname, or the name and surname of the candidates included in the list itself: the expression of two preferences for candidates belonging to the same sex involves theannulment of the second preference.
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Allocation of seats
With decree of the President of the Regional Council n. 12/2024, the 40 proportional seats were assigned to the electoral constituencies corresponding to the territory of the Metropolitan City of Turin and the Piedmontese provinces, in proportion to their population:
- Turin: 21
- Wedge: 5
- Alexandria: 4
- Novara: 3
- Asti: 2
- Connecting rod: 2
- Vercelli: 2
- Verbano-Cusio-Ossola: 1
What law does one vote with?
The new electoral law valid for 2024 was approved in Piedmont in July 2023.
Here’s what’s new:
- incompatibility between the role of regional councilor is that of regional councilor, for this reason the substitution of the councilors: the functions of regional councilor are suspended for the period in which those of councilor are carried out;
- 40 of the 50 seats are allocated with proportional system in competing constituency lists, the others 10 with majoritarian system on the basis of regional lists combined with the Presidential candidate;
- The prize Of majority determines that the winning coalition gets at least the 55% of seats, that is 28in case of victory with a percentage lower than 45% valid votes; at least the 60% of seats, that is 30, in case of victory equal to or greater than 45% and less than or equal to 60% of valid votes; finally at least the 64% of seats, therefore 32in case of victory with a percentage equal to or greater than 60% of valid votes;
- barrier threshold 5% for coalitions and 3% for individual lists.
- equality of gender: neither of the 2 sexes, both in the constituency and regional lists, can be represented in measure greater than 60% of the candidates, also taking into account alternation as far as possible;
- introduced gender preference allowing the voter to express up to 2 preferences, with cancellation of the second in case of preferences for candidates of the same sex.
- the lists are made up of 10 candidates and by a variable number of alternate candidates (from 2 to 4) which become part of it only in the event of the possible exclusion of one of the 10 indicated.
Photo source: ANSA
