Italy 2013: The official thread

[Andrea]

Wow. How does the center-right almost gain Siena but get blown out elsewhere?

The Monte dei Paschi banking scandal in Siena.

[Andrea]

Brescia
CL 56.53% CR 43.47%
Turnout 59.27%

Lodi
CL 53.62% CR 46.38%
Turnout 53.08%

Treviso
CL 55.5% CR 44.5%
Turnout 58.61%

Imperia
CL 76.14 CR 23.86
Turnout 52.98

Siena
CL 52% CR 48%
Turnout 54.97%

Ancona
CL 62.59 CR 37.41
Turnout 41.97

Rome
CL 63.93 CR 36.07
Turnout 45.05

Viterbo
CL 62.86 CR 37.14
Turnout 50.59

Avellino
CL 60.57 CR 39.43
Turnout 53.91

Barletta
CL 62.89 CR 37.11
Turnout 49.44

Iglesias
CL 51.68 CR 48.32
Turnout 57.81%

Waiting for Sicily now....

[Andrea]

Bianco took back Catania for PD.

Maybe PD got Messina in first round too. They claim to be at 50.02 in their unofficial count. So things can change a bit once official figures will be released. PdL eliminated anyway.

Ragusa is a PD-M5S run off.

Official PDL eliminated in Siracusa too. A local list with some PDL splinters go to the run off with PD

[Andrea]

PD candidate at 49.94% in Messina in the end. So run off required. He's well ahead of the other candidate but he has performed much worse than the lists supporting him.

Were all these councils PD-favored to begin with ? Because it seems odd that with the national polling going on and what we know of the situation the PdL wasn't able to gain a single one of all these. O_o'

Imperia, Treviso, Brescia, Viterbo and Rome were PD gains.

Some of them were Right strongholds (Imperia, Treviso, Viterbo). Some others (for ex Brescia and Lodi) are usually pretty marginal at mayoral level.

[Andrea]

IPSOS poll for Ballarò

PD 29.3 SEL 5% Others CL 0.3%
Monti 3.9% UDC (Christian Democrats) 2.8%
PDL 27.3% Lega 3.6% Brothers of Italy 2.5% Others CR 1%
Grillo 20.3%
Communists 1.1% Di Pietro 0.9%

[Andrea]

Monti resigns from Civic Choice. Mauro (and Casini) basically took over the group

His whole attempt into electoral politics has been a flop.