Polls reopened from 7am in Bari and Lecce where voting is taking place to choose the new mayor. With very different turnout data. In fact, in Bari, where they compete Vito Leccese supported by the centre-left, and the candidate of the centre-right Fabio Romitoat 11pm on Sunday it stopped at 27.18%, the lowest in Italy among the capital municipalities on the ballot.
In Lecce, however, the final turnout on Sunday was 45.75%, among the highest in Italy: here Adriana Poli Bortone he had come close to winning the first round over the outgoing centre-left mayor Carlo Salvemini. Today we will vote until 3pm, then the counting will start immediately.
For the run-offs in Puglia, which involve 8 municipalities including Bari and Lecce, when the polls closed at 11pm, an average of 32.38% of those entitled to vote voted, according to the Interior Ministry data published on the ‘Eligendo’ portal and referring to all the sections (662). The figure for the first round, when the European elections were also held, was 50.69%.
This is the percentage in the provinces: Bari 29.58% (49.26% in the first round); Foggia 29.79% (49.38); Lecce 44.54% (56.90%). Specifically in Bari city 27.18% out of 345 total sections (in the first round 47.80%), in Putignano 48.34% out of 25 sections (61.40%), in Santeramo in Colle 38.31% out of 23 sections (53.78%). In the Foggia area in Manfredonia 26.12% out of 59 sections (46.79%), in San Giovanni Rotondo 36.41% out of 26 sections (52.79%), in San Severo 30.18 % out of 56 sections (50.35%). In Lecce city 45.75% out of 102 sections (57.07% in the first round), in Copertino 40.14% out of 26 sections (56.31%).
