2021 Rome municipal election

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Turnout	48.5% 8.5 pp (first round) 40.7% 7.8 pp (second round)
Mayoral election
Candidate Roberto Gualtieri Enrico Michetti Party PD Independent Alliance Centre-left Centre-right 1st Round vote 299,976 334,548 Percentage 27.8% 30.1% 2nd Round vote 565,352 374,577 Percentage 60.2% 39.8%
Mayor before election Virginia Raggi M5S Elected mayor Roberto Gualtieri PD
City Council election
All 48 seats in the Capitoline Assembly 25 seats needed for a majority
Party Leader Vote % Seats +/– Centre-left Roberto Gualtieri 27.9 29 +21 Centre-right Enrico Michetti 31.4 9 +5 Calenda List Carlo Calenda 19.1 5 Five Star Movement Virginia Raggi 17.7 5 −24 This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.

Municipal elections took place in Rome on 3–4 October 2021 and 17–18 October 2021. Open for election were the office of Mayor of Rome and all the 48 seats of the City Council, as well as the presidents and councils of each of the fifteen municipi in which the city is divided.

Local elections in Italy are usually scheduled between 15 April and 15 June, however on 4 March 2021 the Italian government decided to postpone them to the autumn following a new spike of cases in the coronavirus pandemic.^[1]

Roberto Gualtieri, member of the Democratic Party (PD) and former minister, was elected mayor, winning in the runoff against centre-right independent Enrico Michetti with just over 60% of the vote.^[2] The incumbent mayor Virginia Raggi was defeated after failing to qualify for the runoff.^[3]

The voting system is used for all mayoral elections in Italy's 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.^[4]

The primary election took place on 20 June 2021:

• Monica Cirinnà (PD), Senator (2013-present)^[12]
• Enrico Letta (PD), current Secretary of the Democratic Party (2021–today) and former Prime Minister (2013–2014)^[13]
• Nicola Zingaretti (PD), President of Lazio (2013–today), former Secretary of the Democratic Party (2019–2021)^[14]

• Giuseppe Civati, leader of Possible (2016–2018)^[15]
• Ignazio Marino, former mayor of Rome (2013–2015)^[15]

This is a list of the parties and their respective leaders which will participate in the election.^[16]

Summary of the 2021 Rome City Council and Mayoral election results

Mayoral candidate		1st round		2nd round		Leader's seat	Parties		Votes	%	Seats
		Votes	%	Votes	%
	Roberto Gualtieri	299,976	27.0	565,352	60.2	–		Democratic Party	166,194	16.4	18
								Gualtieri for Mayor	54,779	5.4	5
								Civic Ecologist Left	20,501	2.0	2
								Future Rome	20,028	2.0	2
								Solidary Democracy	9,610	1.0	1
								Green Europe	9,354	0.9	1
								Italian Socialist Party	2,841	0.3	0
								Total	283,307	27.9	29[a]
	Enrico Michetti	334,548	30.1	374,577	39.9	Y		Brothers of Italy	176,809	17.4	5
								League	60,183	5.9	2
								Forza Italia – Union of the Centre	36,444	3.6	1
								Michetti for Mayor	25,048	2.5	0
								Renaissance – Let's Change Rome	18,659	1.8	0
								European Liberal Party	1,371	0.1	0
								Total	318,514	31.4	8
	Carlo Calenda	219,878	19.8	–	–	Y		Calenda for Mayor	193,477	19.1	4
	Virginia Raggi	211,936	19.1	–	–	Y		Five Star Movement	111,668	11.0	3
								Raggi List	43,581	4.3	1
								Ecologist Rome	10.328	1.0	0
								Sportsmen for Rome	6,855	0.7	0
								With the Women for Rome	4,895	0.5	0
								Rome Decides	2,255	0.2	0
								Total	179,582	17.7	4
	Luca Teodori	7,139	0.6	–	–	–		3V Movement	6,512	0.6	0
	Elisabetta Canitano	6,615	0.6	–	–	–		Power to the People	6,090	0.6	0
	Paolo Berdini	4,722	0.4	–	–	–		Rome Concerns You (PRC – PdS)	4,215	0.4	0
	Monica Lozzi	4546	0.4	–	–	–		Civic rEvolution	4224	0.4	0
	Micaela Quintavalle	3,781	0.3	–	–	–		Communist Party	3,583	0.4	0
	Cristina Cirillo	3,781	0.3	–	–	–		Italian Communist Party	3,253	0.3	0
	Fabrizio Marrazzo	2,735	0.3	–	–	–		Gay Party	2,599	0.3	0
	Fabiola Cenciotti	2,056	0.2	–	–	–		The People of Family	1,634	0.2	0
	Gilberto Trombetta	1,704	0.2	–	–	–		Reconquer Italy	1,525	0.2	0
	Rosario Trefiletti	1,598	0.1	–	–	–		Italy of Values	1,460	0.1	0
	Gianluca Gismondi	1,573	0.1	–	–	–		Social Idea Movement	1,486	0.2	0
	Andrea Bernaudo	1,046	0.1	–	–	–		Italian Liberists	944	0.1	0
	Sergio Iacomoni	740	0.1	–	–	–		Nero List	695	0.1	0
	Margherita Corrado	618	0.1	–	–	–		Civic Project Active Rome	593	0.1	0
	Sergio Iacomoni	510	0.1	–	–	–		Workers' Communist Party	477	0.1	0
	Paolo Oronzo Magli	408	0.0	–	–	–		Libertas Political Movement	395	0.0	0
	Giuseppe Cirillo	340	0.0	–	–	–		Party of Good Manners	253	0.0	0
	Carlo Priolo	190	0.0	–	–	–		Children of Italy, Children Around the World	166	0.0	0
Total		1,109,912	100	939,929	100	3	Total parties		1,014,838	100	45
Total valid votes		1,109,912	96.91	939,929	97.93
Blank or invalid ballots		35,356	3.09	19,889	2.07
Turnout		1,145,268	48.54	959,818	40.68
Eligible voters		2,359,248	100.00	2,359,248	100.00
Source: Ministry of the Interior (first round Archived 2021-10-16 at the Wayback Machine, second round Archived 2021-11-09 at the Wayback Machine)

Notes

Municipi are governed by a president and a council of four members who are elected by its residents every five years. The municipi frequently cross the boundaries of the traditional, non-administrative divisions of the city.

All presidents of municipi were elected at the second round. The centre-left won 14 Municipi whereas the centre-right gained only Municipio VI. Table below shows the results for each municipio with the percentage for each coalition on the second round:

Source: Municipality of Rome - Electoral Service

• Fabrizio Barca, former Minister of Regional Affairs and Territorial Cohesion (2011–2013)^[17]
• Federico Lobuono, The Young Rome (2021-present)^[18]
• Monica Cirinnà, Senator (2013-present)^[19]
• Giuseppe Conte, former Prime Minister of Italy (2018–2021)^[20]
• Enrico Letta, former Prime Minister of Italy (2013–2014)^[21]
• David Sassoli, President of the European Parliament since 2019^[22]
• Nicola Zingaretti, President of Lazio since 2013^[23]

• Andrea Abodi, businessman^[24]
• Guido Bertolaso, head of Civil Protection (2001–2010)^[25]
• Rita dalla Chiesa, journalist^[26]
• Massimo Giletti, journalist^[27]
• General Claudio Graziano, Chairman of the European Union Military Committee since 2018^[28]
• Giorgia Meloni, leader of Brothers of Italy^[29]
• Nicola Porro, journalist^[30]

• 2021 Italian local elections