The 2021 Turin municipal election took place in Turin , Italy , on 3 and 4 October 2021, to elect the mayor and the 38 members of the Turin city council. Since no mayoral candidate won a majority of votes on the first round, a runoff was held on 17 and 18 October 2021.[ 1] The second round was won by the centre-left coalition candidate Stefano Lo Russo , member of the Democratic Party , who was officially inaugurated as the new mayor of Turin on 27 October 2021.[ 2] [ 3] The incumbent mayor of Turin, Chiara Appendino of the Five Star Movement , did not run for re-election.[ 4]
2021 Turin municipal election Turnout 331,566 · 48.1% (1st round) 290,632 · 42.1% (2nd round)
The voting system is used for all mayoral elections in Italy, in the cities with a population higher than 15,000 inhabitants. Under this system, voters express a direct choice for the mayor or an indirect choice voting for the party of the candidate's coalition. If no candidate receives 50% of votes during the first round, the top two candidates go to a second round after two weeks. The winning candidate obtains a majority bonus equal to 60% of seats. During the first round, if no candidate gets more than 50% of votes but a coalition of lists gets the majority of 50% of votes or if the mayor is elected in the first round but its coalition gets less than 40% of the valid votes, the majority bonus cannot be assigned to the coalition of the winning mayor candidate.
The election of the City Council is based on a direct choice for the candidate with a maximum of two preferential votes, each for a different gender, belonging to the same party list: the candidate with the majority of the preferences is elected. The number of the seats for each party is determined proportionally, using D'Hondt seat allocation. Only coalitions with more than 3% of votes are eligible to get any seats.[ 5]
Centre-left primary election
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Parties and candidates
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List of the parties and their respective leaders which took part in the election.[ 10]
Political force or alliance
Constituent lists
Candidate
Centre-right coalition
League
Paolo Damilano
Brothers of Italy
Forza Italia (incl. UDC , PLI , PU , DC )
Beautiful Turin
Progress Turin
Yes TAV Yes Work – Renaissance
The People of Family
Centre-left coalition
Democratic Party
Stefano Lo Russo
Lo Russo for Mayor (incl. DemoS , CD , IV , A , +E , RI , Volt , Monviso Civic List, Alliance for Turin)
Ecologist Left (SI , Pos )
Moderates
Turin Tomorrow
Art. 1 – PSI
Sganga coalition
Five Star Movement
Valentina Sganga
Green Europe
D'Orsi coalition
Common Left (PRC , SA , DemA )
Angelo D'Orsi
Italian Communist Party
Power to the People
Di Cristina coalition
Communist Party
Giusi Greta Di Cristina
Turin Future City
Futura for the Common Goods
Ugo Mattei
Workers' Communist Party
Massimo Chiesi
3V Movement
Paolo Alonge
Turin Environmental Movement (incl. 4th October Movement)
Roberto Salerno
Prohibition to Dismiss
Lorenzo Varaldo
Turin Capital of Europe – Stop ISEE
Emilio Mazza
Verra coalition
Italexit
Ivano Verra
We Citizens
Balducci coalition
Gay Party
Davide Betti Balducci
Animalist Party
Centre-left coalition
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Mauro Salizzoni, medic and regional councilor of Piedmont (since 2019)[ 11]
Centre-left coalition
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Date
Polling firm/ Client
Sample size
Sganga
Lo Russo
Damilano
Others
Undecided
Lead
4 October 2021
Election result
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9.0
43.9
38.9
8.2
-
5.0
12–15 Sep 2021
Noto
1,000
9.0
40.0
42.0
9.0
29.0
2.0
9–15 Sep 2021
SWG
1,000
9.0
42.0
42.0
7.0
21.0
Tie
6–11 Sep 2021
Ipsos
1,000
9.5
39.0
42.0
9.5
27.0
3.0
7–10 Sep 2021
Quorum
805
8.6
42.8
43.7
4.9
43.2
0.9
3–8 Sep 2021
Quorum
808
8.3
41.4
44.2
6.1
39.6
2.8
27–29 Aug 2021
BiDiMedia
809
11.1
38.9
41.6
8.4
23.0
2.7
3–5 Aug 2021
Demopolis
1,804
13.0
34.0
41.0
12.0
37.0
7.0
29 Jun–12 Jul 2021
SWG
1,600
8.0
43.0
44.0
5.0
22.0
1.0
25 Jun 2021
Euromedia Research
1,000
11.9
39.6
43.7
4.8
—
4.1
10–15 May 2021
BiDiMedia
1,337
12.6
38.2
40.1
9.1
30.0
1.9
Damilano vs. Lo Russo
Date
Polling firm/ Client
Sample size
Damilano
Lo Russo
Abstain
Lead
9–15 Sep 2021
SWG
1,000
48.0
52.0
—
4.0
6–11 Sep 2021
Ipsos
1,000
48.0
52.0
—
4.0
7–10 Sep 2021
Quorum
805
47.4
52.6
44.9
5.2
3–8 Sep 2021
Quorum
808
46.9
53.1
47.8
6.2
27–29 Aug 2021
BiDiMedia
809
48.0
52.0
—
4.0
16 Jul 2021
SWG
1,600
48.0
52.0
—
4.0
25 Jun 2021
Euromedia Research
1,000
50.2
49.8
37.3
0.4
10–15 May 2021
BiDiMedia
1,337
47.0
53.0
—
6.0
Date
Polling firm
Sample size
Centre-left
Centre-right
M5S-EV
Others
Lead
PD
A
IV
+E
Volt
Mod
SI
Others
FdI
LSP
BT
FI
C!
Others
M5S
EV
4 October 2021
Election result
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28.6
5.0
3.4
3.6
3.5
10.5
9.8
11.9
5.3
1.6
8.0
0.9
8.0
18.1
9–15 Sep 2021
SWG
1,000
25.9
—
—
—
—
3.8
3.2
8.3
10.7
19.4
2.1
8.3
—
1.5
7.6
1.6
7.6
6.5
6–11 Sep 2021
Ipsos
1,000
31.2
4.6
1.5
—
1.5
9.5
20.0
2.5
9.2
—
1.8
8.9
1.0
8.3
11.2
3–8 Sep 2021
Quorum
808
32.3
—
—
—
—
—
—
8.2
14.7
19.4
—
4.2
—
4.8
7.4
1.4
7.6
12.9
27–29 Aug 2021
BiDiMedia
809
26.5
—
—
—
—
3.4
3.4
6.3
15.8
13.4
4.5
3.7
1.5
1.9
9.2
2.2
8.2
10.7
29 Jun–12 Jul 2021
SWG
1,600
30.5
1.5
1.5
—
—
3.0
2.0
5.5
11.0
21.5
2.5
8.0
—
—
8.5
—
4.5
9.0
10–15 May 2021
BiDiMedia
1,337
23.2
2.7
2.5
1.5
0.8
3.1
2.2
1.8
15.4
14.7
5.0
3.9
0.6
—
12.7
1.9
9.0
7.8
5 June 2016
Election result
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29.8
DNP
DNP
DNP
DNP
5.9
DNP
6.8
1.5
5.8
DNP
4.7
DNP
4.2
30.0
DNP
11.9
0.2
Candidate
First round
Runoff
Seats
Parties
Votes
%
Seats
Votes
%
Votes
%
Stefano Lo Russo
140,200
43.86
168,997
59.23
–
Democratic Party
85,890
28.56
17
Lo Russo List
15,013
4.99
2
Ecologist Left
10,807
3.59
2
Moderates
10,177
3.38
2
Turin Tomorrow
7,960
2.65
1
Article One – PSI
2,407
0.80
–
Total
132,254
43.97
24
Paolo Damilano
124,347
38.90
116,322
40.77
1
Beautiful Turin
35,658
11.86
4
Brothers of Italy
31,490
10.47
3
League
29,593
9.84
3
Forza Italia – UDC – PLI
15,951
5.30
2
Turin Progress
2,236
0.74
–
The People of Family
1,320
0.44
–
Yes TAV Yes Work – Renaissance
1,305
0.43
–
Total
117,553
39.08
12
Valentina Sganga
28,785
9.01
–
–
1
Five Star Movement
24,058
8.00
2
Green Europe
2,711
0.90
–
Total
26,769
8.90
2
Angelo d'Orsi
8,095
2.53
–
–
–
Left in Common (PRC – DemA – SA )
3,512
1.17
–
Italian Communist Party
1,838
0.61
–
Power to the People
1,656
0.55
–
Total
7,006
2.33
–
Ugo Mattei
7,406
2.32
–
–
–
Futura
6,975
2.32
–
Francesco Ivano Verra
2,677
0.84
–
–
–
Italexit
2,353
0.78
–
We Citizens
240
0.08
–
Total
2,593
0.86
–
Davide Betti
2,241
0.70
–
–
–
Gay Party
1,336
0.44
–
Italian Animalist Party
775
0.26
–
Total
2,111
0.70
–
Greta Giusi Di Cristina
2,123
0.66
–
–
–
Communist Party
1,552
0.52
–
Turin Future City
454
0.15
–
Total
2,006
0.67
–
Paolo Alonge
1,666
0.52
–
–
–
3V Movement
1,609
0.53
–
Roberto Salerno
910
0.28
–
–
–
Turin Environmental Movement
792
0.26
–
Lorenzo Varaldo
545
0.17
–
–
–
Prohibition of Dismissing
493
0.16
–
Massimo Chiesi
384
0.12
–
–
–
Workers' Communist Party
360
0.12
–
Emilio Mazza
264
0.08
–
–
–
Turin Capital of Europe
262
0,09
–
Total candidates
319,643
100
285,319
100
2
Total parties
300,783
100
38
Total valid votes
319,643
96.40
285,319
98.17
Blank or invalid ballots
11,923
3.60
5,313
1.83
Turnout
331,566
48.08
290,632
42.14
Eligible voters
689,684
100.00
689,684
100.00
Source: Ministry of the Interior (first round Archived 2021-10-05 at the Wayback Machine , second round Archived 2022-01-03 at the Wayback Machine )
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