2005 Emilia-Romagna regional election

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All 50 seats to the Regional Council of Emilia-Romagna
Turnout	76.67% (3.05%)
Majority party Minority party   Leader Vasco Errani Carlo Monaco Party DS FI Alliance The Union House of Freedoms Seats won 32 18 Seat change 1 1 Popular vote 1,579,989 886,775 Percentage 62.7% 35.3% Swing 6.2% 5.0%
Seat totals by Province. As this is a PR election, seat totals are determined by popular vote in each province.
President before election Vasco Errani DS President-elect Vasco Errani DS

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Statute Regional Government President: Michele De Pascale Vice President: Vincenzo Colla Legislative Assembly President: Maurizio Fabbri Elections Political parties Provinces
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The Emilia-Romagna regional election of 2005 took place on 3–4 April 2005.

The incumbent President Vasco Errani, a member of the social democratic Democrats of the Left, was re-elected defeating by a landslide Carlo Monaco, the candidate of the centre-right coalition led by Forza Italia.

Regional elections in Emilia-Romagna were ruled by the "Tatarella law" (approved in 1995), which provided for a mixed electoral system: four fifths of the regional councilors were elected in provincial constituencies by proportional representation, using the largest remainder method with a droop quota and open lists, while the residual votes and the unassigned seats were grouped into a "single regional constituency", where the whole ratios and the highest remainders were divided with the Hare method among the provincial party lists; one fifth of the council seats instead was reserved for regional lists and assigned with a majoritarian system: the leader of the regional list that scored the highest number of votes was elected to the presidency of the Region while the other candidates were elected regional councilors.

A threshold of 3% had been established for the provincial lists, which, however, could still have entered the regional council if the regional list to which they were connected had scored at least 5% of valid votes.

The panachage was also allowed: the voter can indicate a candidate for the presidency but prefer a provincial list connected to another candidate.

3–4 April 2005 Emilia-Romagna regional election results

Candidates		Votes	%	Seats	Parties		Votes	%	Seats
	Vasco Errani	1,579,989	62.73	5
						The Olive Tree	1,095,566	48.03	22
						Communist Refoundation Party	130,609	5.73	2
						Party of Italian Communists	79,406	3.48	1
						Federation of the Greens	69,475	3.05	1
						Italy of Values	31,929	1.40	1
						Union of Democrats for Europe	7,732	0.34	–
					Total		1,414,717	62.02	27
	Monaco Carlo	886,775	35.21	1
						Forza Italia	415,406	18.21	9
						National Alliance	201,963	8.85	4
						Northern League Emilia-Romagna	109,092	4.78	3
						Union of Christian and Centre Democrats	89,787	3.94	1
						New Italian Socialist Party	19,372	0.85	–
					Total		835,620	36.63	17
	Bruno Barbieri	26,712	1.06	–		Consumers' List	15,520	0.68	–
	Gianni Correggiari	25,052	0.99	–		Social Alternative	15,193	0.67	–
Total candidates		2,518,528	100.00	6	Total parties		2,281,050	100.00	44
Source: Ministry of the Interior – Historical Archive of Elections