2020 Venice municipal election
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20–21 September 2020
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A Municipal election was held in Venice, Italy, on 20 and 21 September. It was originally scheduled to take place on May 31, 2020, but it was delayed due to the coronavirus pandemic in Italy.[1][2]
The voting system is used for all mayoral elections in Italy, in the cities with a population higher than 15,000 inhabitants. 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 50% of votes during the first round, the top two candidates go to a second round after two weeks. The winning candidate obtains a majority bonus equal to 60% of seats. During the first round, if no candidate gets more than 50% of votes but a coalition of lists gets the majority of 50% of votes or if the mayor is elected in the first round but its coalition gets less than 40% of the valid votes, the majority bonus cannot be assigned to the coalition of the winning mayor candidate.
The election of the City Council is based on a direct choice for the candidate with a maximum of two preferential votes, each for a different gender, belonging to the same party list: the candidate with the majority of the preferences is elected. The number of the seats for each party is determined proportionally, using D'Hondt seat allocation. Only coalitions with more than 3% of votes are eligible to get any seats.[3]
Candidates
Parties and candidates
This is a list of the parties (and their respective leaders) which will participate in the election.
| Political force or alliance | Constituent lists | Leader | ||
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| Centre-right coalition | Forza Italia (FI) | Luigi Brugnaro | ||
| League (Lega) | ||||
| Brothers of Italy (FdI) | ||||
| Luigi Brugnaro for Mayor | ||||
| Centre-left coalition | Democratic Party (PD) | Pier Paolo Baretta | ||
| Green Progressive Venice (incl. Art.1, EV, SI, Pos and PRC) | ||||
| Venice is Yours (incl. IV, +E and PSI) | ||||
| Common Idea for Venice and Mestre | ||||
| Turning Point in Common (incl. Volt and IiC) | ||||
| Five Star Movement (M5S) | Sara Visman | |||
| All the City Together! (TCI) (incl. PaP) | Giovanni Andrea Martini | |||
| Earth and Water 2020 (TeA) | Marco Gasparinetti | |||
| Party of Venetians (PdV) | Stefano Zecchi | |||
| Solidary and Young Italy (IGS) | Maurizio Callegari | |||
| Sitran Civic List | Marco Sitran | |||