In Sicily, in the 37 municipalities where mayors and municipal councils are renewed, the turnout was 58.05%. The data is definitive. 462,281 voters were called to vote. In Caltanissetta, the only capital where voting was held, the turnout was 55.90%, 0.63% less than in the previous municipal elections. The highest turnout was in the province of Messina (10 municipalities voting) with 65.67%. The lowest in the province of Agrigento (6 municipalities voting) with 45.41%.
38% of voters voted for the European elections, a slightly higher percentage than the previous round when 37.51% voted. The province with the highest percentage of voters was Caltanissetta with 48.05%, the lowest Ragusa with 31.14%.
Municipalities interested in voting
For the province of Palermo, the municipalities of: Bagheria, Bompietro, Borgetto, Cinisi, Corleone, Monreale, Palazzo Adriano, Roccamena, San Mauro Castelverde are interested in the renewal of the mayor and city council.
For the province of Agrigento: Alessandria della Rocca, Caltabellotta, Campobello di Licata, Naro, Racalmuto, Sant’Elisabetta. For the Nisseno area: Caltanissetta, Gela and Sommatino. For the province of Catania: Aci Castello, Motta Sant’Anastasia, Ragalna, Zafferana Etnea.
For Messina: Brolo, Condrò, Falcone, Forza D’Agrò, Leni, Longi, Mandanici, Oliveri, Rometta, Spadafora.
For the province of Syracuse the only municipality of Pachino. For the province of Trapani the municipalities of: Castelvetrano, Mazara del Vallo, Salaparuta and Salemi. No municipalities voting in the provinces of Enna and Ragusa.
European Championships 2024, Sicilians desert the vote, black shirt to a section of Palermo
Sicilians deserted the vote to elect new community representatives through the 2024 European elections. The island ranked nineteenth in Italy in terms of turnout (around 37%), behind only Sardinia.
A fact that placed the “Islands constituency” in last place in this special ranking of Italian macro-areas. Numbers that there is nothing to be proud of given that voting is a right but above all a civic duty. The 37 municipalities that are about to elect new mayors have thought of giving some substance to the Sicilian turnout. Where there was also voting for local elections, the statistics showed a notable increase in voters in percentage terms compared to the rest of the island.
Worst seat in the province in Palermo
Caltanissetta, the only provincial capital to have to elect the new mayor, was the one to clarify this thesis, with a figure close to 43%. Palermo, on the other hand, did badly. The capital stands at well below 40% (38.8%, approximately one percentage point less than five years ago). The worst municipality in the province is Roccapalumba, a city where just over 25% of voters went to the polls. But in some areas of the Sicilian capital practically total abstention came close. The section with the lowest number of voters was number 63, located within the “Turrisi Colonna” school complex, which reached the unenviable percentage of 5.30% of those entitled to vote. However, according to some voters of the section in question, an out-of-scale number is the result of a sudden move of the seat of the polling station, previously located in the Casa Professa area.
