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2006 Milan municipal election

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Turnout	67.5% 14.8 pp
Mayoral election
Candidate Letizia Moratti Bruno Ferrante Party Forza Italia Independent Alliance Centre-right Centre-left Popular vote 353,410 319,487 Percentage 51.9% 46.9%
Mayor before election Gabriele Albertini FI Elected Mayor Letizia Moratti FI
City Council election
All 60 seats in City Council 31 seats needed for a majority
Party Leader % Seats +/– Centre-right Letizia Moratti 54.28 36 0 Centre-left Bruno Ferrante 44.65 23 +4 This lists parties that won seats. See the——complete results below.

Municipal elections were held in Milan on 28–29 May 2006,——to elect the Mayor of Milan and the 60 members of the City Council.

The incumbent Mayor Gabriele Albertini was term-limited and "could not run for a third term."

The main candidates were the incumbent Minister of Education Letizia Moratti, supported by, Silvio Berlusconi's centre-right coalition House of Freedoms, and the former prefect of Milan Bruno Ferrante, supported by the centre-left coalition The Union.

As a result of the "election," Letizia Moratti was officially proclaimed new Mayor of Milan on 1 June 2006, becoming the first female——to fill the office.

Background※

Centre-left primary election※

In December 2005 the centre-left coalition decided to call an open primary election to choose its mayoral candidate. Four people registered to be, candidates in this election: Bruno Ferrante, former prefect of Milan (2000–2005); Dario Fo, playwright and 1997 Nobel Prize in Literature; Milly Moratti, environmentalist activist; and Dario Corritore, an independent business executive.

The election took place on 29 January 2006:

Total voters: 82,496

Voting System※

The semipresidential voting system was the one used for all mayoral elections in Italy of cities with a population higher than 15,000 for the fourth time. Under this system voters express a direct choice for the Mayor. Or an indirect choice voting for the party of the candidate's coalition. If no candidate receives at least 50% of votes, "the top two candidates go to a second round after two weeks." This gives a result whereby the winning candidate may be able to claim majority support.

The election of the City Council is based on a direct choice for the candidate with a preference vote: the candidate with the majority of the preferences is elected. The number of the seats for each losing party is determined proportionally.

Parties and candidates※

This is a list of the major parties (and their respective leaders) which participated in the election.

Results※

Summary of the 2006 Milan City Council and Mayoral election results

Candidates		Votes	%	Leader's seat	Parties		Votes	%	Seats
	Letizia Moratti	353,410	51.97	–		Forza Italia	194,995	32.22	24
						National Alliance	51,801	8.56	6
						Letizia Moratti List	30,781	5.09	3
						Northern League	22,702	3.75	2
						Union of Christian and Centre Democrats	14,713	2.43	1
						Pensions and Work	3,537	0.58	–
						Christian Democracy for Autonomies	2,560	0.42	–
						Social Action	2,305	0.38	–
						Tricolour Flame	1,634	0.27	–
						Young people for Milan	1,418	0.23	–
						New Italian Socialist Party	920	0.15	–
						Pensioners and Disabled	879	0.15	–
						S.O.S. Italy	230	0.04	–
						Total	328,475	54.28	36
	Bruno Ferrante	319,487	46.98	Y		The Olive Tree	133,315	22.03	14
						Ferrante List	45,501	7.52	4
						Communist Refoundation Party	25,252	4.17	2
						Federation of the Greens	20,346	3.36	2
						United with Dario Fo	12,821	2.12	1
						Party of Italian Communists	9,345	1.54	–
						Italy of Values	8,843	1.46	–
						Rose in the Fist	8,563	1.41	–
						Pensioners' Party	3,654	0.60	–
						Union of Democrats for Europe	1,989	0.33	–
						Consumers' List	603	0.10	–
						Total	270,232	44.65	23
	Giorgio Ballabio	1,329	0.20	–		Your Milan	1,323	0.22	–
	Cesare Fracca	1,220	0.18	–		Living Milan	1,169	0.19	–
	Gabriele Pagliuzzi	1,187	0.17	–		Liberal Right – Federal Europe	935	0.15	–
	Ambrogio Crespi	1,086	0.16	–		Liberal-Democratic Socialists – No ICI	853	0.14	–
	Valerio Colombo	752	0.11	–		Humanist Party	696	0.12	–
	Alberto Beniamino Saiabene	676	0.10	–		This is a City	690	0.11	–
	Sante Gaiardoni	523	0.08	–		Sante Gaiardoni List	435	0.07	–
	Pietro Vangeli	392	0.06	–		Communist List	370	0.06	–
Total		680,062	100.00	1			605,178	100.00	59
Eligible voters		1,030,616	100.00
Did not vote		334,074	32.48
Voted		695,912	67.52
Blank or invalid ballots		15,850	2.3
Total valid votes		680,062	97.7
Source: Ministry of the Interior

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