Milan – Waiting for i results of the counting of municipal elections in the cities of Lombardy. We start at 2pm today, Monday 10 June. In addition to the European elections, the voters are called to vote for the local elections until 11pm on Sunday 9 June residents of 961 Lombardy municipalities out of 1,502. The key challenges are those in three capitals: Bergamo, Pavia and Cremona.
ALL RESULTS
To compete for the position of Giorgio Gori, having reached the end of his mandates there are three: Andrea Pezzotta, Elena Carnevali and Vittorio Apicella. With them 367 aspiring city councilors (for 32 available places). If Carnevali were to succeed in the electoral round, she would be the first woman to lead the Orobic capital. When the polls closed (Sunday at 11pm) the first exit poll, created by the Opinio Italia Consortium for Rai. According to this survey, the center-left with Elena Carnevali would win in the first round, with a percentage between 53 and 57%. Pezzotta – centre-right – would follow with a result between 39 and 43%. Small change for Apicella (M5S), with a range between 3 and 5%.
TO Pavia challenges five (all men). The outgoing mayor, Mario Fabrizio Fracassi, was not re-nominated by the centre-right, which he supports Alessandro Cantoni (Fratelli d’Italia, Lega, Forza Italia and two civic lists). To challenge him for victory Michele Lissia, supported by 8 lists: Pd, Italia Viva, Azione, Avs, M5S and three civic lists. The other candidates are Francesco Grisolia (Communist Workers Party), Paolo Walter Cattaneo (Communist Refoundation) e Francesco Signorelli (Power to the People).
It ran at six to Cremona in administrative elections. In the shadow of Torrazzo, the centre-left has governed since 2014. Five years ago Gianluca Galiberti won the run-off with 55.9% of the vote over Salvatore Carlo Malvezzi, candidate of the centre-right. Aspiring to take up Galimberti’s baton are, in this round, Andrea Virgilio, Alessandro Portesani, Paola Tacchini, Ferruccio Giovetti, Maria Vittoria Ceraso and Angelo Frigoli.
All twelve Lombardy provinces were involved in the administrative vote. The province with the most municipalities going to the polls was Bergamo: 164. Followed Brescia with 143 e Pavia with 122. Four provinces are under one hundred municipalities: How (87), Cremona (87), Varese (77) e Milan (68), while in the remaining five provinces the municipalities voting are under fifty: Lecco (49), Praises (46), Sondrio (46), Mantua (38) e Monza Brianza (30). Milan it is the province with the largest number of municipalities over 15 thousand inhabitants (11), while in Lecco and Sondrio the mayors will only be elected in a single round.
The data of the turnout definitive for the administrative elections in the region, i.e. the one recorded at 11pm on Sunday, is 61.89%. At 7pm on Sunday the indicator of voter participation was 55.02%, at 12pm it was 33.83% while on Saturday, when the polls closed on the first day of voting, 19.49% had voted for the administrative elections in Lombardy of those entitled.
