# 2025 Valdostan regional election

The 2025 Valdostan regional election is scheduled to take place in September 2025 in Aosta Valley, Italy. The election is part of the wider 2025 Italian regional elections.

## Electoral law

The Regional Council of Aosta Valley (Italian: Consiglio regionale della Valle d'Aosta, French: Conseil de la Vallée) is composed by 35 members. The Council is elected for a five-year term. There is only one regional constituency. The President of Aosta Valley is elected by the Council. The electoral law was recently changed by the L.R. 16/2017 and the L.R. 9/2019.
The election of the Regional Council is based on a direct choice for the candidate and it is possible to express only one preference for the list. If a single party list or a coalition of party lists gets more than 42% of valid votes cast, it is assigned a majority bonus of 21 seats. If no one reach this threshold, the seats are determined proportionally. For the proportional allocation there are two thresholds: given the largest remainder method by dividing the valid votes cast for all lists and the seats to be assigned, if a party list doesn't reach the minimum quota required, the party list is excluded to the allocation of the seats. However, if a party list gets only one seat during the first allocation of seats, it is excluded and its seat is reallocated.

## Background

In the 2020 regional election, the Valdostan Union (UV) was reduced to 15.8%, its second worst result ever, while the LNVdA came a stronger first. However, after the election, UV leader Erik Lavévaz formed a government composed of the PD, Civic Network (RC), the Valdostan Alliance (AV), Edelweiss (SA) and Mouv'. Within a year, AV and Mouv' joined forces, while the RC-led Progressive Civic Project (PCP) left the government. In 2023 Testolin formed a new government, which, differently from Lavévaz's, comprised also For Autonomy.
The largest regional party UV decided to not participate in the 2024 European Parliament election citing the electoral system. In late 2023, Mouv' and the AV started a merging process into the UV. In June 2024, at an extraordinary congress of the UV, the reunion was finally approved. In December 2024, Laurent Viérin's Valdostan Pride followed. The Sovereign Aosta Valley Country (PAS) stated that they are open for a coalition. In July 2024, rumors came out of a coalition between SA, Valdostan Rally (RV), For Autonomy and Evolvendo after they rejected the invitation by PAS. In October, these parties alongside Renaissance started negotiations for a "centrist, liberal-democratic and reformist" coalition. In March 2025, PAS announced that they negotiate with UV and did not rule out running as independents on their list.
In June 2024, the Centre-right coalition (Lega, FI, FdI, NM, UdC) announced that they plan to run as a coalition.
In December, Open VdA (M5S, AD–GA, SI/ADU) announced its intention to run on a joint list. In February 2025, Erika Guichardaz stated that PCP "ceased to exist" and excluded running on a list which goes from RC, via Power to the People to Legambiente.

## Parties

| Party | Main ideology | Seats |
| Valdostan Union | Regionalism | 11 |
| Centre-right coalition (Lega, FI, FdI, NM, UdC) | Right-wing populism | 9 |
| RV–PlA–SA–Renaissance–Evolvendo | Christian democracy | 8 |
| Progressive Federalists–Democratic Party | Social democracy | 5 |
| Civic Network–Green Europe | Green politics | 1 |
| Open Aosta Valley (ADGA, M5S, SI/ADU) | Democratic socialism | 1 |