Poli Bortone wins in marine, Salvemini In the Old Town and in the east area. A difference of 646 votes which cost the outgoing mayor his reconfirmation during the second round of ballot, despite the success in most of the city sections: 56 to 44, even 12 more, without however managing to obtain the number of votes necessary to reverse the situation. In the end, the preferences were 23,780 for Adriana Poli Bortone (who will be proclaimed mayor today at 3pm in the council chamber of Palazzo Carafa) against 23,134 for Carlo Salvemini, i.e. 50.69% to 49.31%.
The geography of voting
The senator then built her success along the coast, given that sections 87, 88, 89 of via Almagià in Frigole hosted the electoral lists not only of the titular marina but also of Torre Chianca, Torre Rinalda and San Cataldo, moved for safety issues at the “Calasso”. A decision which was also subject to strong criticism put forward by the new mayor who had spoken of “discrimination against residents of the marinas”.
The analysis of the gap emerges from the report of the mathematician Valerio Guido: without the three sections of Frigole which alone recorded 630 votes during the ballot, Salvemini would have received 22,504 votes, against the 22,472 of Adriana Poli Bortone. In particular in section 89, the current first citizen obtained almost two and a half times the votes of her opponent (484 against 210), with a more or less constant gap also in the other two.
Salvemini, on the other hand, recorded the greatest success at the headquarters of the Liceo Banzi in via Marinosci, where 265 voters chose him, against the 174 of the contender (+91), at the Ammirato in via Sanzio (+89), at the De Giorgi in viale De Pietro (+75). In the “Virgilio” area, however, the voters were mostly loyal to the centre-right as confirmed both in the first round and in the run-off: in five sections the overall gap was 249 votes last 9 June in favor of Poli, as happened, with different partials, in the second round. At the “Virgilio” there is also one of the sections that Salvemini managed to snatch from the first round, that is 52: 6 votes down and he prevailed with 34 at the end of the voting. The same goes for section 74 of the “Calasso” where the outgoing mayor had lost by 19 votes and managed to overturn the situation with a +13. He also recovered in number 83 where he had a gap of 39 preferences, winning the ballot with +4, in number 93 in via Marinosci going from -35 to +2, in number 42 of the “Ammirato” middle school obtaining a +20 from a -4 or the 48 always in the same location, with a recovery from -53 to +4. In 38 he cancels the difference by reaching the same figure as his opponent, after starting from -17 and in 39, again at the “Ammirato” venue, he subverts the first round, from -14 to +11. Same path in section 30 of the “Galilei” where Poli Bortone was ahead by 34 votes: in the end the outgoing mayor managed to even the score. Section 11 at the “Quinto Ennio” average shows the same trend: from -29 to +15 as does section 74 of the “Calasso” with a gap that has transformed from -19 to + 13 while in section 8 of the “Calasso” branch Calasso”, the former center-left mayor goes from -2 to +4 votes. Finally, number 67, the “De Giorgi” branch in via Pozzuolo, which saw the centre-left candidate win by +2, recovering from -8.
Even where Salvemini had the greatest consensus ever, the centre-right exponent prevailed, as happened in section 57 “Ascanio Grandi” with 415 votes surpassed by 17 preferences from Poli Bortone. The senator’s victory did not come from major changes on the part of voters compared to the first round. The only sections taken from Salvemini were 90 and 8 of the “Calasso”: in both he was down by two votes in the first round, then in the run-off he succeeded with, respectively, +11 and +4 votes difference. The case of “Deledda” is emblematic (“Thank you Deledda” some supporters commented immediately after the polls closed), where the centre-left candidate recovered from a disadvantage in the seven city sections, going from a difference of 588 preferences to 473, but without ever breaking through . With a total gap of 400 votes, Carlo Salvemini won all the sections of the “Banzi” in Piazza Palio. Poli also confirmed itself as a winner in the “Galateo” middle school sections where in the first round it recorded a difference of 545 voters in its favor and in the second round, a decrease, of 469. Substantial draw, at least in the run-off round, with a separation not exceeding three votes, in section 102 of the hospital, in 9 that is in the “Calasso” branch, in 30, 37 and 93, therefore in 13 of the “Quinto Ennio” middle school, in 67 of the ” De Giorgi” and in the 41st of the “Ammirato” middle school.
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