South Tyrol (Südtirol) regional election - 21 Oct. 2018

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There is also a Ladin party, Ladins Dolomites.  Last time they got 1.1% province-wide, which was obviously concentrated in the Ladin area.  Their best commune was San Martin de Tor, where they got 27.6%.  (The only other parties over 2% in that commune were the SVP with 59.4% and Die Freiheitlichen with 6.8%.)  This year they've joined forces with two German parties, BürgerUnion and Wir Südtiroler, in a joint list.

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Notice also how the SVP, the Freedomites and the South-Tyrolean Freedom do not use the ".it" domain in their websites ... SVP uses ".eu", while the others use ".com"

It'd be more surprising if they did use .it.  Similarly, the SNP, Plaid Cymru and Mebyon Kernow all use .org, while the SDLP and Sinn Féin naturally use .ie.

Back in South Tyrol, the BürgerUnion use .st, which is meant to belong to São Tomé and Príncipe.

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SVP wins the capital Bozen by 4 votes !

100% counted there.

10.104 votes - 22.2% - SVP Südtiroler Volkspartei
10.100 votes - 22.2% - PD Partito Democratico - Demokratische Partei

http://wahlen.provinz.bz.it/dlistvt_ld_m15558_vg.htm

I'm assuming the SVP carried every municipality.  They did win the five with Italian speaking majorities:

Bolzano/Bozen: Italian 73.80%; SVP 22.2%, PD 22.2%, Greens 11.4%, Forza/Lega Nord 8.2%, L'Alto Adige nel cuore 7.8%, Five Star 7.3%, Unitalia 7.3%, Freiheitlichen 4.4%

Laives/Leifers: Italian 71.50%; SVP 27.5%, PD 22.3%, Forza/Lega Nord 9.1%, Five Star 7.8%, Greens 7.3%,  L'Alto Adige nel cuore 6.2, Freiheitlichen 5.5%, Unitalia 5.3%

Salorno/Salurn: Italian 61.85%; SVP 39.0%, PD 17.5%, Freiheitlichen 8.2%, Five Star 7.1%, Greens 6.9%, Forza/Lega Nord 6.6%, L'Alto Adige nel cuore 4.3%

Bronzolo/Branzoll: Italian 62.01%; SVP 36.0%, PD 17.5%, Greens 13.7%, Five Star 6.2%,  Forza/Lega Nord 6.0%, Freiheitlichen 5.6%, L'Alto Adige nel cuore 5.5%, Unitalia 4.0%

Vadena/Pfatten: Italian 61.50%; SVP 41.5%, PD 15.0%, Greens 9.9%, Forza/Lega Nord 6.4%, L'Alto Adige nel cuore 6.2%, Five Star 6.0%, Freiheitlichen 5.7%

Was Italian-speaking turnout lower, or do some Italian speakers vote SVP?

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In the Ladin municipalities, the result was
SVP 59.8%
Freiheitlichen 15.5%
BürgerUnion/Ladins Dolomites/Wir Südtiroler 10.1%
Greens 5.9%
(others below 4%)

This is quite a big increase for Die Freiheitlichen (7.3% last time) and a big decrease for Ladins Dolomites compared with the 18.9% they got running on their own in 2008.

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And here's the supposedly 100% German speaking municipality of Martell:
SVP 340 (61.2%), Freiheitlichen 147 (26.4%), Südtiroler Freiheit 44 (7.9%), Greens 15, BürgerUnion/Ladins Dolomites/Wir Südtiroler 5, PD 2, Forza/Lega Nord 1, Unitalia 1, La Destra 1, everyone else zero.

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What kind of crossover is there generally between the parties and the linguistic groups they represent?palandio mentioned that some Italian voters may have gone for the Freedomites; do German speakers vote in any reasonable number for Italian-speaking parties?

My impression is that German (and Ladin) speakers voting for the Italian-speaking parties is a bit like Catholics in Northern Ireland voting DUP.

Here's the PD map (from Tender's link):


Note that the darkest shade here covers everything over 2%; every municipality which isn't in that shade was below 2%.  I can only find three municipalities other than the five Italian majority ones where they were over 10%: Auer, Neumarkt and Franzensfeste, all of which have substantial Italian minorites.  The other Italian-speaking parties have similar patterns (but with even lower votes).

One oddity is that the Five Star Movement did a bit better in the Ladin municipalities (where they were generally the strongest of the Italian speaking parties) than the German ones (but we're still only talking about 2% to 3% of the vote and fifth or sixth place):