2008 Italian Senate election in Lombardy

Lombardy renewed its delegation to the Italian Senate on April 13, 2008. This election was a part of national Italian general election of 2008 even if, according to the Italian Constitution, every senatorial challenge in each Region is a single and independent race.

2008 Italian Senate election in Lombardy

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All 47 Lombard seats in the Italian Senate
First party Second party   Leader Silvio Berlusconi Walter Veltroni Party People of Freedom Democratic Party Alliance Centre-right Centre-left Last election 27 seats, 50.4% 57.0% as CdL 20 seats, 27.3% 42.6% as Union Seats won 30 17 Seat change 3 3 Popular vote 3,139,694 1,823,835 Percentage 55.1% 32.0% Swing 4.7% 4.7%
Local majority before election Centre-right coalition New local majority Centre-right coalition

The election was won by the centre-right coalition between The People of Freedom and Lega Nord, as it happened at the national level. The People of Freedom was the largest party in the election with 34%, ahead of the Democratic Party (28%) and Lega Nord (21%). All provinces gave a majority or a plurality to the new Prime Minister of Italy.

Electoral law

The new electoral law for the Senate was established in 2005 by the Calderoli Law, and it is a form of semi-proportional representation. A party presents its own closed list and it can join other parties in alliances. The coalition which receives a plurality automatically wins at least 26 seats. Respecting this condition, seats are divided between coalitions, and subsequently to party lists, using the largest remainder method with a Hare quota. To receive seats, a party must overcome the barrage of 8% of the vote if it contests a single race, or of 3% of the vote if it runs in alliance.

Results

Coalition leader	votes	votes (%)	seats	Party	votes	votes (%)	swing	seats	change
Silvio Berlusconi	3,139,694	55.1	30	The People of Freedom	1,959,681	34.4	-3.6	19	0
				Lega Nord	1,180,013	20.7	+9.6	11	+6
Walter Veltroni	1,823,835	32.0	17	Democratic Party	1,607,928	28.2	+5.8	15	+2
				Italy of Values	215,907	3.8	+1.2	2	+2
Pier Ferdinando Casini	240,481	4.2	-	Union of the Centre	240,481	4.2	-1.7	-	-3
Fausto Bertinotti	183,061	3.2	-	The Left – The Rainbow	183,061	3.2	-8.6	-	-7
Daniela Santanchè	93,077	1.6	-	The Right – Tricolour Flame	93,077	1.6	+0.5	-	-
Eva Rossi	45,622	0.8	-	Lega per l'Autonomia – Alleanza Lombarda	45,622	0.8	-0.8	-	-
Enrico Boselli	30,745	0.5	-	Socialist Party	30,745	0.5	-1.7	-	-
Marco Ferrando	27,141	0.5	-	Workers' Communist Party	27,141	0.5	+0.5	-	-
Renzo Rabellino	25,866	0.5	-	List of Talking Crickets	25,866	0.5	+0.5	-	-
Others	86,632	1.5	-	Others	86,632	1.5	-1.7	-	-
Total coalitions	5,696,154	100.0	47	Total parties	5,696,154	100.0	=	47	=

Source: Ministry of the Interior

Lombard delegation to Senate

The People of Freedom

• Roberto Formigoni (replaced by Riccardo Conti on 4 June 2008)
• Alfredo Mantica
• Ombretta Colli
• Guido Possa
• Alessio Butti
• Giampiero Cantoni
• Marcello Dell'Utri
• Mario Mantovani
• Romano Comincioli
• Antonino Caruso
• Luigi Scotti (replaced by Alessandra Gallone on 9 December 2008)
• Antonio Tomassini
• Giancarlo Serafini
• Giuseppe Valditara
• Giacomo Caliendo
• Salvatore Sciascia
• Valerio Carrara
• Alfredo Messina
• Pierfrancesco Gamba

Democratic Party

• Umberto Veronesi
• Mauro Ceruti
• Pietro Ichino
• Emanuela Baio
• Gerardo D'Ambrosio
• Daniele Bosone
• Fiorenza Bassoli
• Tiziano Treu
• Luigi Vimercati
• Antonio Rusconi
• Guido Galperti
• Cinzia Fontana
• Giorgio Roilo
• Paolo Rossi
• Marilena Adamo

Lega Nord

• Roberto Calderoli
• Giuseppe Leoni
• Rosi Mauro
• Massimo Garavaglia
• Cesarino Monti
• Roberto Mura
• Sandro Mazzatorta
• Lorenzo Bodega
• Fabio Rizzi
• Armando Valli
• Irene Aderenti

Italy of Values

• Giuliana Carlino
• Gianpiero De Toni

See also

• 2008 Italian general election