In nine municipalities in Emilia-Romagna there will be voting on Sunday 23 and Monday 24 June to elect the new mayors. Casalecchio, Castel Maggiore and Pianoro in the Bologna area, Mirandola and Nonantola in the Modena area return to the polls for the runoff. Savignano sul Rubicone (Fc)Zerba (Pc), Copparo and Tresignana (Fe).
As for the remaining municipalities that have elected 216 first citizens in the first round of the administrative elections of 8 and 9 June, 8 out of 10 are male: 170 men and 46 women (21%). Those elected have an average age of 50.6 years: the most represented group among the new first citizens is that between 45 and 59 years (93), followed by that between 30 and 44 years.
The new mayors
According to the calculations published on the Emilia-Romagna Region website dedicated to the elections, out of the total of those elected mayor 96 (27 women and 69 men, 45% of the total) are new, even if not all of them are new to the mayor, because for some it is of a return after years. While 88 (40%, 12 women and 76 men) continue with a second mandate.
For 32, 15% of the total, it is the third (or fourth) mandate, in small municipalities. Overall, there are 17 outgoing mayors who, having re-nominated, were defeated at the polls. While 9 people who were mayors in the past have returned to wear the tricolor sash in the same municipality or in another.
All 14 municipalities that presented only one candidate elected their mayor, as the quorums required by law were exceeded.
There were few majority changes, around thirty (less than 15% of the total), in some cases outgoing mayors were present among the defeated mayoral candidates. Above 15 thousand, up to the run-offs, only in Sassuolo and Molinella.
