È stata una nottata sul filo di lana quella di Monza, che ha visto il sindaco uscente Scanagatti (candidato con il centrosinistra) prevalere sul candidato di centrodestra (Allevi) di soli 35 voti. Meno lunga è stata la notte a Legnano, dove il candidato del centrodestra Fratus ha terminato il primo turno in vantaggio di circa sei punti sul sindaco uscente Alberto Centinaio (centrosinistra).   Nonostante la storia delle due città sia ben diversa e gli esiti delle due competizioni siano differenti, i punti di partenza delle due competizioni hanno molti tratti in comune. Innanzitutto, entrambe le città lombarde arrivavano al voto...

Emmanuel Macron’s presidential majority – consisting of his movement La République En Marche (LREM) and centrist party Modem – has largely win the second round of the legislative elections on June 18, although with a smaller margin than predicted after the first round. LREM on its own has obtained the absolute majority in the lower house with 308 seats out of 577. Mainstream parties of the left and the right realized some of the worst electoral performances in parliamentary elections: the Parti Socialiste (PS) hits a record low, with only 30 MPs, and making a parliamentary group of a...

The context The 2019 European elections were held only a few months after the October 2018 parliamentary elections. Surveys for the latter elections had predicted that the Christian Social People’s Party (CSV) would win votes and return into government after being an opposition party for the second time since World War II during the 2013-2018 parliament. In the end, the CSV lost 5.2 percentage points of the national vote and two of its parliamentary seats, while the government coalition of the liberal DP, the social democratic LSAP and the Greens kept a majority of seats (31 out of 60) and...

Short summary National Parliament election was called in Denmark early May 2019. Hence, much of the focus that would otherwise have been devoted to the European Parliament (EP) election went to the national election campaign. Yet, the two elections thematically overlapped. The overall focus was on the climate crisis and, secondly, immigration. This focus secured a successful EP election for the green parties (the Socialist People’s Party (SF) and the Danish Social-Liberal Party (RL)). But also, the mainstream parties, particularly the Liberals, enjoyed an increase in Members of the European Parliament (MEPs), which was mainly at the expense of the...

Di Benedetto manca di poco la vittoria al primo turno, malgrado le liste a suo sostegno superino il 50%. Segue Biondi (35.9%): al ballottaggio nuova sfida centrodestra vs. centrosinistra. PD lista più votata. Seconde Forza Italia e la lista civica Il Passo Possibile. Il Movimento 5 Stelle non supera neanche il 5%.   Dopo l’amministrazione decennale del sindaco uscente Massimo Cialente (2007-2017) le liste a sostegno del candidato di centrosinistra alla successione, Americo Di Benedetto, superano di un punto abbondante il 50%. Tuttavia, per effetto del voto disgiunto, il candidato non ottiene la vittoria al primo turno, raccogliendo “solo” il 47% dei...