After a long electoral campaign, this weekend Bergamo goes to the polls to elect the new mayor and the city council who will remain in office for the next five years.
Voting takes place today (Saturday 8 June 2024), from 3pm to 11pm, and tomorrow (Sunday 9 June), from 7am to 11pm. All citizens registered in the electoral lists of the Municipality of Bergamo are called to the polls, including those who have turned 18 years by June 9th. There are approximately ninety thousand voters.
In the 2019 municipal elections, 67.91 percent of those entitled to vote voted. There are three mayoral candidates: Andrea Pezzotta for the centre-right, Vittorio Apicella for the 5 Star Movement ed Elena Carnevali for the centre-left.
To vote you need the traditional electoral card (those who have lost it can apply to the Municipality, instructions on the site) and a valid identification document (paper or electronic identity card).
The ballot paper for the local elections is blue. By drawing an “x” on the list symbol, the vote will go both to the list and to the connected mayoral candidate. By placing an “x” on the name of the mayoral candidate you vote only for him and not for the related lists.
Finally, the so-called disjoint vote is possible: that is, voting for a mayoral candidate (putting the “x” on his name) and for a list not connected to him (putting the “x” on its symbol). Next to the symbol of the chosen list you can indicate one or two preferences (in the latter case they must be of candidates of different sex) by writing their surnames.
We don’t just vote for the Municipality of Bergamo. Another 141 municipalities will also go to the polls, for a total of around six hundred thousand voters. In those with less than fifteen thousand inhabitants, the mayor is elected in a single round. In the larger ones, if no one gets 50 percent plus one of the votes, there will be a runoff (23 and 24 June).
