2024 municipal elections today in Emilia Romagna: how to vote

Bologna, 8 June 2024 – After much waiting, the election weekend has arrived, in which well 225 municipalities of theEmilia Romagna are preparing to choose their new mayor. Polls open today Saturday 8 June: you can vote from 15 at 23but also tomorrow, Sunday 9 June give her 7 at 23.

For them administrative elections over two million people from Emilia-Romagna are called to vote: to be precise, we are talking about 2,059,995 entitled.

Of the 225 municipalities voting, 35 have over 15 thousand inhabitants and among these also 5 provincial capitals: Modena, Reggio Emilia, Ferrara, Cesena and Forlì (in the 5 cities, 26 mayoral candidates are running, 6 are women).

The counting of votes for the municipal elections begins Monday 10 June at 2pmwhile I final results they will get to know each other at the end of it.

For the occasion, here is a complete guide to voting divided by municipality more or less than 15 thousand inhabitants.

At the same time, the entire region is called to the polls to elect the members of the new one European Parliament.

municipal lessons in Emilia-Romagna the new mayor will be elected on Saturday 8 and Sunday 9 June in 226 municipalities, including Reggio Emilia, Modena, Ferrara, Forlì and Cesena

To be able to cast your vote in elections it is necessary be at least 18 years old and own the Italian citizenship. In Emilia-Romagna i adults who are voting for the first time in local elections 39,129 (20,137 men and 18,992 women).

As regards the municipal administrative elections, in addition to adult Italian citizens, the following are also considered eligible to vote citizens of one member state of the European Union residents in the municipality where the elections are held, provided that an official request is presented to the mayor by 40 days from the electoral round.

To vote you must bring a valid document and the electoral card.

You vote on a single ballot, which shows the names of the candidates for the office of mayor and, immediately below, the symbol or symbols of the lists that support him.

There are three voting possibilities:

– draw a mark only on the symbol of a listso as to automatically vote for the candidate supported by the latter, expressing a preference for the latter;

– draw a mark on a list symbol and, at the same time, draw one on the candidate mayor of another listobtaining the so-called ‘split vote‘;

– draw a mark only on the name of the mayoral candidatethus voting only for the individual candidate and not for the list or related lists.

The voter also has the opportunity to express one or two preferential votes writing the names of non including more than two candidates in the voted list. If there are two preferences expressed, they must necessarily concern candidates from different sex (woman-man or man-woman). Otherwise, the preference following the first is considered null.

Whoever manages to obtain the right is elected mayor in the first round absolute majority (at least 50% + 1 of the votes). In case of failure to reach this threshold, the runoff between the two candidates with the most votes on Sunday 23 June (from 7am to 11pm) and Monday 24 June (from 7am to 3pm). In the second round, whoever receives the is elected highest number of votes.

Mayor and city councilors vote with one single card, where the name of the candidate is already printed with the symbol of the list that supports him next to it. The vote is carried out by tracing a sign on the list mark or on name of the mayoral candidate.

However, it is not foreseen split vote: the votes obtained by the candidate for the office of mayor are connected to the list connected to him.

As regards i municipalities of less than 5 thousand inhabitantsit is possible to express a preference for a municipal councilor by writing the surname in the line next to the symbol of the list to which it belongs.

In the municipalities included between 5 thousand and 15 thousand inhabitantshowever, two preferences can also be expressed, necessarily of different sex (under penalty of cancellation of the second preference).

The candidate who receives the is elected mayor highest number of votes. In the event of a tie between two candidates, the ballot for the days of Sunday 23 June (from 7am to 11pm) e Monday 24 June (from 7am to 3pm). Even in this circumstance, whoever gets the win wins majority of votesi, while in the event of a further tie, il is elected older of the two.

Immediately after the election of the mayor the town Councilof which i 2/3 are attributed to list that supports the winning candidatewith the remainder 1/3 distributed at other lists.

In the Bologna area the citizens of are called to the polls 45 municipalities out of a total of 55, of which 10 with over 15 thousand inhabitants. Together with 45 new first citizens they will also be elected 632 city councilors. There are 476 voting stations available.

Over 15 thousand inhabitants

Casalecchio di Reno; Castel Maggiore; Castel San Pietro Terme; Castenaso; Medicine; Molinella; Pianoro; San Lazzaro di Savena; Valsamoggia; Zola Predosa.