# 2014 Emilia-Romagna regional election

The Emilia-Romagna regional election of 2014 took place on 23 November 2014.
The three-term incumbent President of the Region, Vasco Errani of the centre-left Democratic Party resigned in July 2014 after the conviction for fraudulent misrepresentation, triggering a snap election.
In an election marked by the lowest turnout ever in the Region (37.7%), Stefano Bonaccini, a Democrat, was elected President by defeating several candidates, mainly Alan Fabbri of the Northern League (29.9%) and Giulia Gibertoni of the Five Star Movement (13.3%).

## Electoral system

In Emilia-Romagna, a new electoral law was approved by the Legislative Assembly in July 2014, abolishing the blocked list. The first elections regulated by this law were the regional elections of 2014.
The voter can express one or two preference votes for the candidates on the chosen list; in the case of the expression of two preferences, these must concern candidates of different sex according to "gender preference" (under penalty of annulment of the second preference). As regards the election of the councilors, the law guarantees in any case at least 27 seats on the lists that support the elected president (majority prize), obtaining effects that are very similar to those of the list but acting on the provincial lists. The first 40 seats are distributed on a proportional basis. A seat is then attributed to the candidate for president who came second. The remaining 9 seats are assigned by majority method to the lists that support the elected president if these lists have obtained less than 25 seats with the previous procedure, otherwise the "prize" will be only 4 seats. If, at the end of these assignments, the majority lists have not obtained at least 27 seats, these will be guaranteed by removing some of the seats already assigned to the opposition lists.

## Parties and leaders

| Political party or alliance | Political party or alliance | Constituent lists | Constituent lists | Previous result | Previous result | Candidate |
| Political party or alliance | Political party or alliance | Constituent lists | Constituent lists | Votes (%) | Seats | Candidate |
| | Centre-left coalition | | Democratic Party | 40.6 | 18 | Stefano Bonaccini |
| | Centre-left coalition | | Left Ecology Freedom | 1.8 | 1 | Stefano Bonaccini |
| | Centre-left coalition | | Civic Emilia-Romagna (incl. PSI, Greens and SC) | — | — | Stefano Bonaccini |
| | Centre-left coalition | | Democratic Centre – DemoS (incl. IdV) | — | — | Stefano Bonaccini |
| | Centre-right coalition | | Forza Italia | 24.6 | 10 | Alan Fabbri |
| | Centre-right coalition | | Northern League Emilia-Romagna (incl. LNE+LNR) | 13.7 | 4 | Alan Fabbri |
| | Centre-right coalition | | Brothers of Italy | — | — | Alan Fabbri |
| | Five Star Movement | Five Star Movement | Five Star Movement | 6.0 | 2 | Giulia Gibertoni |
| | The Other Emilia-Romagna (incl. PRC and PdCI) | The Other Emilia-Romagna (incl. PRC and PdCI) | The Other Emilia-Romagna (incl. PRC and PdCI) | 2.8 | 1 | Maria Cristina Quintavalla |
| | Popular Emilia-Romagna (incl. NCD and UDC) | Popular Emilia-Romagna (incl. NCD and UDC) | Popular Emilia-Romagna (incl. NCD and UDC) | — | — | Alessandro Rondoni |

## Results

23 November 2014 Emilia-Romagna regional election results :
| Candidates | Candidates | Votes | % | Seats | Parties | Parties | Votes | % | Seats |
| | Stefano Bonaccini | 615,723 | 49.05 | 1 |
| | Stefano Bonaccini | 615,723 | 49.05 | 1 | | Democratic Party | 535,109 | 44.52 | 29 |
| | Stefano Bonaccini | 615,723 | 49.05 | 1 | | Left Ecology Freedom | 38,845 | 3.23 | 2 |
| | Stefano Bonaccini | 615,723 | 49.05 | 1 | | Civic Emilia-Romagna | 17,984 | 1.49 | – |
| | Stefano Bonaccini | 615,723 | 49.05 | 1 | | Democratic Centre – Solidary Democracy | 5,247 | 0.43 | – |
| | Stefano Bonaccini | 615,723 | 49.05 | 1 | Total | Total | 597,185 | 49.69 | 31 |
| | Alan Fabbri | 374,736 | 29.85 | 1 |
| | Alan Fabbri | 374,736 | 29.85 | 1 | | Northern League Emilia-Romagna | 233,439 | 19.42 | 8 |
| | Alan Fabbri | 374,736 | 29.85 | 1 | | Forza Italia | 100,478 | 8.36 | 2 |
| | Alan Fabbri | 374,736 | 29.85 | 1 | | Brothers of Italy | 23,052 | 1.91 | 1 |
| | Alan Fabbri | 374,736 | 29.85 | 1 | Total | Total | 356,969 | 29.70 | 11 |
| | Giulia Gibertoni | 167,022 | 13.31 | – | | Five Star Movement | 159,456 | 13.26 | 5 |
| | Maria Cristina Quintavalla | 50,211 | 4.00 | – | | The Other Emilia-Romagna | 44,676 | 3.71 | 1 |
| | Alessandro Rondoni | 33,437 | 2.66 | – | | Popular Emilia-Romagna | 31,635 | 2.63 | – |
| | Maurizio Mazzanti | 14,129 | 1.13 | – | | Free Citizens for Emilia-Romagna | 11,864 | 0.98 | – |
| Total candidates | Total candidates | 1,255,258 | 100.00 | 2 | Total parties | Total parties | 1,201,785 | 100.00 | 48 |
| Source: Ministry of the Interior – Historical Archive of Elections ||||||||||
Popular vote
PD
44.52%
LN
19.42%
M5S
13.26%
FI
8.36%
PRC–PdCI
3.71%
SEL
3.23%
ERP
2.63%
Others
4.81% :
President
Bonaccini
49.05%
Fabbri
29.85%
Gibertoni
13.30%
Quintavalla
4.00%
Rondoni
2.66%
Mazzanti
1.12% :
Seats summary
CSX
64.00%
CDX
24.00%
M5S
10.00%
LER
2.00% :