There will be voting in nine municipalities in Emilia-Romagna Sunday 23rd and Monday 24th June to elect new mayors. They return to the polls for the runoff Casalecchio, Castel Maggiore and Pianoro in the Bolognese area, Mirandola and Nonantola in the Modena area, Savignano on theRubicon (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 were male: 170 men and 46 women (21%).
The elect have one 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.
Results, data, statistical calculations, news and curiosities can be consulted on the Emilia-Romagna Region website dedicated to the elections which in five weeks has recorded a boom in accesses with over 294 thousand pages visited and over 237 thousand unique views.
The site, created by the Information Agency and Press Office of the Council in collaboration with the Legislative Assembly of the Emilia-Romagna Region, also contains details of the challenges and “how to vote in the run-off”.
From today on the electoral database (Bde) of the Legislative Assembly, it is possible to consult i results of the last round of the administrative and European ones and comparisons with the previous ones.
The new mayors
According to the calculations published on the site, 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, because for some it is 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.
