# 2020 Venice municipal election

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.

## Electoral system

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.

## 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 | Constituent lists | Leader |
| Centre-right coalition | | Forza Italia (FI) | Luigi Brugnaro |
| Centre-right coalition | | League (Lega) | Luigi Brugnaro |
| Centre-right coalition | | Brothers of Italy (FdI) | Luigi Brugnaro |
| Centre-right coalition | | Luigi Brugnaro for Mayor | Luigi Brugnaro |
| Centre-left coalition | | Democratic Party (PD) | Pier Paolo Baretta |
| Centre-left coalition | | Green Progressive Venice (incl. Art.1, EV, SI, Pos and PRC) | Pier Paolo Baretta |
| Centre-left coalition | | Venice is Yours (incl. IV, +E and PSI) | Pier Paolo Baretta |
| Centre-left coalition | | Common Idea for Venice and Mestre | Pier Paolo Baretta |
| Centre-left coalition | | Turning Point in Common (incl. Volt and IiC) | Pier Paolo Baretta |
| Five Star Movement (M5S) | Five Star Movement (M5S) | Five Star Movement (M5S) | Sara Visman |
| All the City Together! (TCI) (incl. PaP) | All the City Together! (TCI) (incl. PaP) | All the City Together! (TCI) (incl. PaP) | Giovanni Andrea Martini |
| Earth and Water 2020 (TeA) | Earth and Water 2020 (TeA) | Earth and Water 2020 (TeA) | Marco Gasparinetti |
| Party of Venetians (PdV) | Party of Venetians (PdV) | Party of Venetians (PdV) | Stefano Zecchi |
| Solidary and Young Italy (IGS) | Solidary and Young Italy (IGS) | Solidary and Young Italy (IGS) | Maurizio Callegari |
| Sitran Civic List | Sitran Civic List | Sitran Civic List | Marco Sitran |

## Opinion polls
### Candidates

| Date | Polling firm/ Client | Sample size | Brugnaro | Baretta | Visman | Martini | Zecchi | Gasparinetti | Others | Undecided | Lead |
| 10 Aug 2020 | Fabbrica Politica | 500 | 55.0 | 24.3 | 5.4 | 5.6 | 7.1 | 2.6 | — | — | 30.7 |

### Parties

| Date | Polling firm | Sample size | Centre-right | Centre-right | Centre-right | Centre-right | Centre-left | Centre-left | Centre-left | Centre-left | M5S | TCI | TeA | PdV | Others | Undecided | Lead |
| Date | Polling firm | Sample size | Lega | FI | FdI | Other | PD | IV | VVP | Other | M5S | TCI | TeA | PdV | Others | Undecided | Lead |
| 16 Jun 2020 | Quorum | 900 | 22.6 | 3.9 | 7.8 | 21.1 | 23.2 | 1.7 | 1.7 | 0.4 | 5.0 | 2.4 | 5.2 | 3.0 | 2.0 | 53.1 | 0.6 |
* 1 2 This poll was commissioned by a political party.
* ↑ In this poll the M5S mayoral candidate was Elena La Rocca

## Results

Summary of the 20–21 September 2020 Venice City Council election results :
| Candidates | Candidates | Votes | % | Leaders seats | Parties | Votes | % | Seats |
| | Luigi Brugnaro | 66,750 | 54.14 | – | Luigi Brugnaro for Mayor | 37,914 | 31.67 | 14 |
| | Luigi Brugnaro | 66,750 | 54.14 | – | League – Venetian League | 14,806 | 12.37 | 5 |
| | Luigi Brugnaro | 66,750 | 54.14 | – | Brothers of Italy | 7,855 | 6.56 | 2 |
| | Luigi Brugnaro | 66,750 | 54.14 | – | Forza Italia | 3,255 | 2.72 | 1 |
| | Luigi Brugnaro | 66,750 | 54.14 | – | The Cities | 1,148 | 0.96 | – |
| | Pier Paolo Baretta | 36,092 | 29.27 | 1 | Democratic Party | 22,962 | 19.18 | 7 |
| | Pier Paolo Baretta | 36,092 | 29.27 | 1 | Green Progressive Venice | 5,907 | 4.93 | 1 |
| | Pier Paolo Baretta | 36,092 | 29.27 | 1 | Venice is Yours (+Eu – IV – PSI) | 4,308 | 3.60 | 1 |
| | Pier Paolo Baretta | 36,092 | 29.27 | 1 | Turning Point in Common (Volt – IiC) | 952 | 0.80 | – |
| | Pier Paolo Baretta | 36,092 | 29.27 | 1 | Common Idea | 789 | 0.66 | – |
| | Marco Gasparinetti | 5,005 | 4.06 | 1 | Earth and Water 2020 | 4,847 | 4.05 | – |
| | Sara Visman | 4,822 | 3.91 | 1 | Five Star Movement | 4,716 | 3.94 | – |
| | Stefano Zecchi | 4,344 | 3.52 | 1 | Party of Venetians | 4,228 | 3.53 | – |
| | Giovanni Andrea Martini | 4,305 | 3.49 | 1 | All the City Together! | 3,021 | 2.52 | – |
| | Giovanni Andrea Martini | 4,305 | 3.49 | 1 | For Mestre and Venice | 1,083 | 0.90 | – |
| | Alessandro Busetto | 807 | 0.65 | – | Workers' Communist Party | 783 | 0.65 | – |
| | Marco Sitran | 605 | 0.49 | – | Sitran Civic List | 553 | 0.46 | – |
| | Maurizio Callegari | 570 | 0.46 | – | Solidary and Young Italy – Vox – Human Value Party | 570 | 0.48 | – |
| Total | Total | 123,300 | 100.00 | 5 | | 119,697 | 100.00 | 31 |
| Source: Ministry of the Interior |||||||||