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2001 Italian Senate election in Lombardy

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Field	Value
election_name	2001 Italian Senate election in Lombardy
country	Lombardy
type	legislative
ongoing	no
previous_election	1996 Italian Senate election in Lombardy
previous_year	1996
next_election	2006 Italian Senate election in Lombardy
next_year	2006
seats_for_election	All 47 Lombard seats in the Italian Senate
election_date	May 13, 2001
image1	[[Image:Silvio Berlusconi.jpg	118px]]
leader1	Silvio Berlusconi
party1	Forza Italia (1994)
alliance1	House of Freedoms
last_election1	27 seats, 57.2%
as PPL and LN
seats1	33
seat_change1	+6
popular_vote1	2,557,622
percentage1	44.8%
swing1	-12.4%
image2	[[Image:Rutelli per wikipedia.jpg	109px]]
leader2	Francesco Rutelli
party2	The Daisy
alliance2	The Olive Tree (Italy)
last_election2	19 seats, 34.2%
seats2	11
seat_change2	-7
popular_vote2	1,924,113
percentage2	33.7%
swing2	-0.5%
title	Majority
posttitle	New Majority
before_election	House of Freedoms
after_election	House of Freedoms

as PPL and LN Lombardy renewed its delegation to the Italian Senate on May 13, 2001. This election was a part of national Italian general election of 2001 even if, according to the Italian Constitution, every senatorial challenge in each Region is a single and independent race.

The election was won by the centre-right coalition called House of Freedoms, as it happened at the national level. The House was a new alliance formed for Lombard regional election of 2000 between political giants Pole of Freedoms and Lega Nord. All provinces gave a majority or a plurality to the new Prime Minister of Italy.

Background

Silvio Berlusconi was the largely predicted winner of this election. He had a complete victory during the 1999 European election and, more, he strengthened his position with the alliance between his Pole of Freedoms and his former rivals of Umberto Bossi's Lega Nord, forming the House of Freedoms for the 2000 regional election which gave him a landslide victory. In this context, the majoritarian system was ensuring him a literal triumph in Lombardy.

On the other side, The Olive Tree was coming from five years of troubled government, with three different Prime Ministers, and divisions between member parties obliged to give a nomination to a fourth man, Francesco Rutelli.

Electoral system

The intricate electoral system introduced in 1993, called Mattarella Law, provided 75% of the seats in the Senate as elected by first-past-the-post system, whereas the remaining 25% was assigned by a special proportional method that assigned more of the remaining seats to minority parties.

Formally this was an example of mixed-member majoritarian system.

Results

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Sources: Italian Senate

Constituencies

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Luigi Malabarba (PRC) 6.8%
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Elidio De Paoli (LAL) 11.5%
Valerio Carrara (Italy of Values) 4.7%
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Additional senators

The Olive Tree

Patrizia Toia (Democracy is Freedom, 40.6%)
Antonio Pizzinato (Democrats of the Left, 38.7%)
Loris Maconi (Democrats of the Left, 38.4%)
Pierluigi Petrini (Democracy is Freedom, 37.0%)
Natale Ripamonti (Federation of the Greens, 36.4%)
Gianni Piatti (Democrats of the Left, 36.2%)
Ornella Piloni (Democrats of the Left, 36.0%)
Gianfranco Pagliarulo (Party of Italian Communists, 35.9%)
Emanuela Baio (Democracy is Freedom, 35.4%)

Autonomous Lombard Alliance

Elidio De Paoli (Lega per l'Autonomia – Alleanza Lombarda, 11.5%)

Communist Refoundation Party

Luigi Malabarba (Communist Refoundation Party, 6.8%)

Italy of Values

Valerio Carrara (Italy of Values, 4.7%)

Notes

References

She resigned in 2004 when she became [[European Parliament. MEP]]. She was then substituted by [[Roberto Biscardini]] ([[Italian Democratic Socialists. SDI]]).

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