Gela 2024 administrative elections: polls open for these municipal elections which are combined – as regards the first round – with the European and regional elections in Piedmont for a sort of election day.
He will not be on the field again in the 2024 local elections Lucius Greco, outgoing mayor of Gela. In total there will be five mayoral candidates running. The center-left will focus on Terenziano Di Stefano and the centre-right is up Grazia Cosentino.
Among the civics there will be the presence of Filippo Franzone And Miguel Doneganiwhile Totò Scerra will be the candidate of the Moderates and the Italian Liberal Party.
Let’s see them then timetables of opening and closing of polls, who are the candidates mayor in these Gela 2024 administrative elections, the lists in their support and how to vote according to the dictates of electoral law.
Gela 2024 administrative elections: dates and times
The Gela administrative elections 2024 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 administrative elections in Gela
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 Frost a municipality with more than 15,000 inhabitants, if no candidate in the first round obtains 40% of the valid votes 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 24 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 Gela 2024 local elections: here’s who they are and which lists they support.
| Candidates | Lists | Votes |
|---|---|---|
| Grazia Cosentino | FdI, Forza Italia, Italia Viva, Lega, New Christian Democracy | / |
| Terenziano Di Stefano | Pd, M5s, South Calls North, A Good Idea, Melfa–Let’s start from scratch in Action, Autonomists for Gela, Italian Communist Party | / |
| Miguel Doneguani | PeR–Progressives and Reformists | / |
| Filippo Franzone | Franzone Mayor | / |
| Totò Scerra | Moderates, Italian Liberal Party, Totò Scerra Mayor | / |
In the 2019 local elections Lucio Greco – supported by various civic lists – managed to become mayor of Gela after beating Giuseppe Spata, the centre-right candidate, in the run-off. Five years later the mayor gave up trying to obtain a second mandate.
The former deputy mayor, on the other hand, is very promising Terenziano Di Stefano which, after having obtained the green light from the Agora, also received the support of the Democratic Party and the 5 Star Movement.
However, he will not be in the coalition Filippo Franzone who will be the mayoral candidate of Moto Civico, while Miguel Donegani is in the field for the Progressives and Renovators.
In the center-right the parties ultimately decided to focus on Grazia Cosentino which will also be supported by Italia Viva, while there are three lists that will support the race for mayor of Totò Scerra.
