Claim: In the 2008 Italian Senate election in Lombardy, coalition leader Silvio Berlusconi, who was 12th in the List of The World's Most Powerful People in 2009, led the voting results with over three million votes which was a notably large margin against runner up Walter Veltroni who got less than two million votes.
Evidence: Silvio Berlusconi In 2009, Forbes ranked him 12th in the List of The World's Most Powerful People due to his domination of Italian politics, throughout more than twenty years at the head of the centre-right coalition. 
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