2000 Venetian regional election
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The Venetian regional election of 2000 took place on 16 April 2000.
Giancarlo Galan (Forza Italia, Pole for Freedoms) was re-elected for the third time President of the Region by a landslide over the centre-left candidate Massimo Cacciari (The Democrats).
Forza Italia, this time in alliance also with the Northern League, had its best result ever and was by far the largest party in the election, receiving 30.3% of the regional vote.
Electoral system
Regional elections in Veneto 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.
Parties and candidates
| Political party or alliance | Constituent lists | Previous result | Candidate | |||
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| Votes (%) | Seats | |||||
| rowspan="8" style="background:Template:Party color;"| | Pole for Freedoms | bgcolor="Template:Party color" | | Forza Italia | 24.0 | 15 | Giancarlo Galan |
| bgcolor="Template:Party color" | | Northern League – Venetian League | 16.7 | 9 | |||
| bgcolor="Template:Party color" | | National Alliance | 10.7 | 6 | |||
| bgcolor="Template:Party color" | | Christian Democratic Centre | 3.6 | 3 | |||
| bgcolor="Template:Party color" | | United Christian Democrats | — | — | |||
| bgcolor="Template:Party color" | | Socialist Party | — | — | |||
| The Liberals Sgarbi | — | — | ||||
| Venetian Democratic Union | — | — | ||||
| rowspan="6" bgcolor="Template:Party color" | | The Olive Tree | bgcolor="Template:Party color" | | Democrats of the Left | 16.5 | 9 | Massimo Cacciari |
| bgcolor="Template:Party color" | | Communist Refoundation Party | 5.0 | 2 | |||
| bgcolor="Template:Party color" | | Federation of the Greens | 4.0 | 2 | |||
| bgcolor="Template:Party color" | | Italian Democratic Socialists – Italian Republican Party | 0.5 | – | |||
| Cacciari List (incl. PPI, Dem, RI) | — | — | ||||
| bgcolor="Template:Party color" | | Party of Italian Communists | — | — | |||
| Bonino List | 1.2 | – | Marco Cappato Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
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| Venetians of Europe | — | — | Fabrizio Comencini Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
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| Marco Polo Front | — | — | Fabio Padovan Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
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Results
| Candidates | Votes | % | Seats | Parties | Votes | % | Seat | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| rowspan="10" bgcolor="Template:Party color"| | Giancarlo Galan | 1,484,585 | 54.96 | 6 | |||||
| bgcolor="Template:Party color"| | Forza Italia | 696,358 | 30.38 | 17 | |||||
| bgcolor="Template:Party color"| | Northern League – Venetian League | 274,472 | 11.97 | 6 | |||||
| bgcolor="Template:Party color"| | National Alliance | 225,194 | 9.82 | 5 | |||||
| United Christian Democrats | 102,967 | 4.49 | 2 | ||||||
| bgcolor="Template:Party color"| | Christian Democratic Centre | 53,580 | 2.34 | 1 | |||||
| bgcolor="Template:Party color"| | Socialist Party | 16,249 | 0.71 | – | |||||
| The Liberals Sgarbi | 12,413 | 0.54 | – | ||||||
| Venetian Democratic Union | 1,730 | 0.08 | – | ||||||
| Total | 1,382,963 | 60.33 | 31 | ||||||
| rowspan="8" bgcolor="Template:Party color"| | Massimo Cacciari | 1,032,255 | 38.22 | 1 | |||||
| Cacciari List | 312,347 | 13.63 | 9 | ||||||
| bgcolor="Template:Party color"| | Democrats of the Left | 282,644 | 12.33 | 8 | |||||
| bgcolor="Template:Party color"| | Communist Refoundation Party | 68,375 | 2.98 | 2 | |||||
| bgcolor="Template:Party color"| | Federation of the Greens | 53,464 | 2.33 | 1 | |||||
| bgcolor="Template:Party color"| | Italian Democratic Socialists – Italian Republican Party | 29,355 | 1.28 | 1 | |||||
| bgcolor="Template:Party color"| | Party of Italian Communists | 23,349 | 1.02 | 1 | |||||
| Total | 769,534 | 33.57 | 22 | ||||||
| Fabrizio Comencini | 71,878 | 2.66 | – | Venetians of Europe | 56,448 | 2.46 | – | ||
| Marco Cappato | 66,457 | 2.36 | – | Bonino List | 54,844 | 2.39 | – | ||
| Fabio Padovan | 45,975 | 1.70 | – | Marco Polo Front | 28,568 | 1.25 | – | ||
| Total candidates | 2,701,150 | 100.00 | 7 | Total parties | 2,292,357 | 100.00 | 53 | ||
| Source: Ministry of the Interior | |||||||||
Aftermath
After the election, Giancarlo Galan formed his second government, while Enrico Cavaliere (Liga Veneta) was elected President of the Regional Council. Forza Italia had the lion share in the government, including the posts of President, Vice President and Minister of Health.
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