2018 Lombard regional election

Since 2012, Lombardy has adopted its own legislation to elect its Council, very similar to national Tatarella Law of 1995.

While the President of Lombardy and the leader of the opposition are still elected at-large, 78 councilors are elected by party lists under a form of semi-proportional representation. The winning coalition receives a jackpot of at least 45 seats, which are divided between all majority parties using the D'Hondt method, as it happens between the losing lists. Each party then distributes its seats to its provincial lists, where candidates are openly selected.

According to the Law 17 February 1968, no. 108, the Regional Council is elected every five years. The election can take place since the fourth Sunday before the completion of this five years period.

On 1 March 2016, President Maroni announced his intention to run for a re-election as president.[1] Nonetheless, on 8 January 2018 he announced he'd not seek a re-election as president, citing personal reasons and launching former mayor of Varese Attilio Fontana as candidate of the center-right coalition.

On 1 June 2017 Giorgio Gori, the incumbent mayor of Bergamo, announced his decision to run for the presidency for the center-left coalition.[2]

On 15 January 2018, Fontana stated that the white race and the Western culture were in danger due to the migration flows from Africa.[3] This created lot of protests and criticisms from the centre-left Democratic Party and also the anti-establishment Five Star Movement.[4]

Seats in the Regional Council by coalition:
  Centre-right (49)
  Centre-left (18)
  M5S (13)

According to the final results, Attilio Fontana was the new President of Lombardy with more than 49% of the votes, obtaining the greater bonus given by the electoral law.

4 March 2018 Lombard regional election results

Candidates		Votes	%	Seats	Parties		Votes	%	Seats
	Attilio Fontana	2,793,370	49.75	1
						League – Lombard League	1,553,514	29.64	28
						Forza Italia	750,628	14.32	14
						Brothers of Italy	190,804	3.64	3
						Fontana for President	76,637	1.46	1
						Us with Italy – UDC	66,355	1.26	1
						Energies for Lombardy	27,967	0.53	1
						Pensioners' Party	20,259	0.38	–
					Total		2,686,610	51.29	48
	Giorgio Gori	1,633,367	29.09	1
						Democratic Party	1,008,496	19.24	15
						Gori for President	158,671	3.02	2
						More Europe	108,743	2.07	–
						Lombardy for the Autonomies Target	62,840	1.19	–
						Together	35,071	0.66	–
						Popular Civic List	20,668	0.39	–
						Progressive Lombardy	20,036	0.38	–
					Total		1,414,674	26.99	17
	Dario Violi	974,984	17.36	–		Five Star Movement	933,243	17.80	13
	Onorio Rosati	108,407	1.93	–		Free and Equal	111,296	2.12	–
	Angela De Rosa	50,368	0.89	–		CasaPound	45,416	0.86	–
	Massimo Gatti	38,194	0.68	–		Left for Lombardy	35,713	0.68	–
	Giulio Arrighini	15,791	0.28	–		Great North	13,769	0.26	–
Total candidates		5,614,481	100.00	2	Total parties		5,240,126	100.00	78
Source: Ministry of the Interior – Historical Archive of Elections

Results by province

Election results map. Orange denotes municipalities and provinces won by Gori and Blue denotes those won by Fontana.

Province	Attilio Fontana	Giorgio Gori	Dario Violi	Onorio Rosati	Others	Turnout
Milan	742,685 42.83%	589,969 34.02%	326,040 18.80%	42,123 2.42%	33,169 1.90%	72.03%
Brescia	391,419 54.59%	189,426 26.42%	106,845 14.90%	12,498 1.74%	16,786 2.33%	76.55%
Bergamo	352,462 54.98%	185,003 28.86%	83,409 13.01%	8,254 1.28%	11,889 1.84%	75.87%
Varese	271,614 53.59%	123,917 24.45%	93,234 18.39%	7,985 1.57%	10,064 1.98%	71.06%
Monza and Brianza	245,806 48.39%	145,635 28.67%	98,717 19.43%	9,639 1.89%	8,144 1.58%	75.82%
Como	194,665 56.23%	85,538 24.70%	56,613 16.35%	5,266 1.52%	4,107 1.17%	70.59%
Pavia	153,811 51.42%	76,416 25.55%	56,535 18.90%	5,941 1.98%	6,375 2.12%	69.76%
Mantua	99,923 44.53%	64,569 28.77%	49,990 22.27%	4,981 2.21%	4,927 2.19%	70.36%
Cremona	105,759 51.67%	55,815 27.26%	34,676 16.94%	3,683 1.79%	4,744 2.31%	73.94%
Lecco	103,875 51.85%	60,269 30.08%	30,643 15.29%	3,705 1.84%	1,821 0.89%	75.66%
Lodi	66,061 51.86%	32,115 25.21%	25,151 19.74%	2,547 1.99%	1,493 1.15%	75.12%
Sondrio	65,290 61.74%	24,695 23.35%	13,131 12.41%	1,785 1.68%	834 0.77%	66.26%