2000 Ligurian regional election

The Ligurian regional election of 2000 took place on 16 April 2000.

2000 Ligurian regional election

16 April 2000

Majority party Minority party   Leader Sandro Biasotti Giancarlo Mori Party Forza Italia People's Party Alliance House of Freedoms The Olive Tree Seats won 24 16 Seat change 8 13 Popular vote 475,308 431,743 Percentage 50.7% 46.1% Swing 6.1%[1] 5.0%[2]

President before election Giancarlo Mori PPI Subsequent President Sandro Biasotti FI

Sandro Biasotti (an independent close to Forza Italia) was elected President, defeating incumbent Giancarlo Mori (Italian People's Party).

Results

Candidates & parties	votes	votes (%)	seats reg. list	seats prov. lists
Sandro Biasotti	475,308	50.71	8	16
Forza Italia	240,789	27.27	→	10
National Alliance	90,396	10.24	→	3
Lega Nord Liguria	38,104	4.32	→	1
New Liguria	24,943	2.83	→	1
Christian Democratic Centre	22,959	2.60	→	1
United Christian Democrats	15,837	1.79	→	0
Animalist Liguria	11,984	1.36	→	0
Pensioners' Party	6,488	0.73	→	0
Giancarlo Mori	431,743	46.07	1	15
Democrats of the Left	231,496	26.22	→	9
Communist Refoundation Party	57,619	6.53	→	2
Italian People's Party–UDEUR	37,351	4.23	→	1
The Democrats	25,285	2.86	→	2
Federation of the Greens	18,541	2.10	→	1
SDI–PRI	17,284	1.96	→	1
Party of Italian Communists	16,507	1.87	→	0
For Italy	2,806	0.32	→	0
Mario Tarantino	24,168	2.58	-	-
Bonino List	20,962	2.37	→	0
Irene Menghini	6,028	0.64	-	-
Humanist Party	3,473	0.39	→	0
Total	937,247	100.00	9	31

Source: Ministry of the Interior

References

1. The swing comes from the combined result of Pole for Freedoms (38.0%) and Lega Nord (6.5%) in the 1995 regional election.
2. The swing comes from the combined result of The Olive Tree (42.4%) and PRC (8.6%) in the 1995 regional election.