Pavia 2024 administrative elections: everything is ready for the municipal elections which will be merged for the first round of the European elections as already happened five years ago for a sort of election day.
He will not be on the field again in the 2024 local elections Fabrizio Fracassithe outgoing Northern League mayor whom the center-right preferred Alessandro Cantoni.
The candidate will be in the centre-left Michele Lissiathe city secretary of the Democratic Party who will also be able to count on the support of the 5 Stars, of the Green-Left Alliance, of Avs Action.
Here is a guide to the Pavia 2024 administrative elections with all the at your placeThe timetables of the seats, who are the candidates mayor, the lists in their support and how to vote according to the dictates of electoral law.
Pavia 2024 administrative elections: dates and times
The Pavia 2024 administrative elections will be held on Saturday 8th and Sunday 9th June regarding the first round. As mentioned, at the same time we will also vote for the European elections and in Piedmont for the regional elections.
These are the timetables opening and closing of polls for the 2024 local elections.
- Saturday 8th: from 3pm to 11pm
- Sunday 9th: from 7am to 11pm
The counting of votes of the first round of the local elections will begin at 2pm on Monday 10th June.
The possible turn of ballot for the local elections it will be held on Sunday 23 June from 7am to 11pm and on Monday 24 June from 7am to 3pm.
How to vote in the local elections in Pavia
For elect the mayor and, at the same time, the town Councilthe voter in the local elections has three voting options:
- put an X on the symbol of the list, thus also assigning the vote to the candidate for Mayor;
- put an X only on the name of the aspiring mayor (in this case no vote will be assigned to the list);
- put an X on the list and write the surname of the councilor candidate you prefer.
In local elections, split voting is permitted: it means that the voter can cross out the name of the mayoral candidate he prefers and also put an X on a list that supports a different candidate.
In municipalities with over 15,000 inhabitants it is also possible to assign the double gender preference: just write the surnames of the two candidates of different sexes belonging to the same list.
The electoral law
There electoral law of local elections in Italy it is majority-based when it comes to the election of the mayor, while the distribution of councilors takes place in a proportional manner.
Being Pavia a municipality with more than 15,000 inhabitants, if no candidate in the first round obtains an absolute majority then a ballot between the two most voted. If there is a perfect head-to-head tie, the oldest candidate will be elected mayor.
To guarantee the formation of a solid majority and consequently substantial governability, the winning mayoral candidate will be added to the lists linked to the candidate awarded 60% of the seats; the remaining seats on the Council will then be assigned to the other lists in a proportional manner through the “D’Hondt method”.
When the seats are divided, the total number of seats will be elected 32 councilors excluding the mayor, all lists and groups of lists of candidates who have passed the threshold will be admitted barrier threshold 3% of valid votes.
Candidates and lists
In total they are there are five mayoral candidates running in the Pavia 2024 local elections: here’s who they are and which lists they support.
| Candidates | Lists | Votes |
|---|---|---|
| Alessandro Cantoni | FdI, Fi, Lega, Pavia Ideale, Pavia Prima | / |
| Paolo Walter Cattaneo | Communist Refoundation | / |
| Francesco Grisolia | Communist Workers’ Party | / |
| Michele Lissia | Pd, M5s, Pavia a Colori, Citizens for Pavia, Green-Left Alliance, Italia Viva, Action, Making the Center | / |
| Francesco Signorelli | Power to the People | / |
In the 2019 local elections Fabrizio Fracassi with a victory in the run-off he managed to bring the center-right back to administering Pavia; five years later, however, the mayoral candidate of the coalition will be the former councillor Alessandro Cantoni.
In the centre-left the so-called broad field will be staged: from the Democratic Party to the 5 Stars up to Avs, Azione and Iv, all together in support of Michele Lissia.
There are plenty of candidates on the left: Francesco Signorelli for Power to the People, Paolo Walter Cattaneo for Rifondazione Comunista e Francesco Grisolia for the Communist Workers’ Party.
