2023 Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol provincial elections

2023 Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol
provincial elections

22 October 2023
Provincial election in Trentino
  First party Second party
 
Candidate Maurizio Fugatti Francesco Valduga
Party Lega Campobase
Alliance Centre-right Centre-left
Seats won 21 13
Seat change 4 5
Popular vote 129,758 93,888
Percentage 51.82% 37.50%
Swing 7.33%[1] 12.10%

President before election

Maurizio Fugatti
LTLega

Elected President

Maurizio Fugatti
LTLega

Provincial election in South Tyrol

All 35 seats to the Landtag of South Tyrol
Party Leader Vote % Seats +/–
SVP Arno Kompatscher 34.5 13 −2
Team K Paul Köllensperger 11.1 4 −2
STF Sven Knoll 10.9 4 +2
Greens Brigitte Foppa 9.0 3 0
FdI Marco Galateo 6.0 2 +1
JWA List Jürgen Wirth Anderlan 5.9 2 New
dF Sabine Zoderer 4.9 2 0
PD Sandro Repetto 3.5 1 0
FSW Thomas Widmann 3.4 1 0
Lega Christian Bianchi 3.0 1 −3
La Civica Emanuela Albieri 2.6 1 New
Vita Renate Holzeisen 2.6 1 New
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
Governor before Elected Governor
Arno Kompatscher
SVP
Arno Kompatscher
SVP

The 2023 Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol provincial elections took place on 22 October 2023.[2] It determined two seats for Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol out of 21 in the Conference of Regions and Autonomous Provinces.

Background

Since the 2018 Italian general election, many changes started to occur in the Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol political landscape. For the first time since the 1996 Italian general election, the centre-right coalition managed to defeat the centre-left coalition in Trentino in a general election. Shortly thereafter, the Trentino Tyrolean Autonomist Party (PATT) decided to run separately (German: Blockfrei), leading to the first victory of the Maurizio Fugatti-led centre-right coalition in a provincial election in Trentino since the start of the Second Italian Republic with the 1994 Italian general election.

In South Tyrol, the traditionally dominant-party system led by the South Tyrolean People's Party (SVP) lost its majority in the 2013 Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol provincial elections. In the 2018 general election, the SVP and the Democratic Party of the centre-left coalition lost their majority, forcing SVP to form a coalition with Lega Alto Adige Südtirol due to the ethnischer Proporz system (Italian: proporzionale etnica). In the 2019 European Parliament election in Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol, the SVP broke their traditional alliance with the PD and joined forces with the centre-right Forza Italia. Similarly in the 2022 general election SVP and PATT decided to run separated from the centre-left and joined forced with some centre-right autonomist parties like Trentino Project.[3]

After Brothers of Italy became largest party in Trentino in the 2022 general election, FdI proposed Francesca Gerosa as the new centre-right candidate.[4] This led to a conflict with PATT, which joined the centre-right coalition in an election for the first time since 2001, which strongly spoke against her.[5]

Trentino

In Trentino, the president is elected directly by the people; the candidate who gains the most votes is elected president.

Parties and candidates

Political party or alliance Constituent lists Previous result Candidate
Votes (%) Seats
Centre-right coalition[6][7] Trentino League (LT) 27.1 13
Trentino Tyrolean Autonomist PartyPopular Autonomists (PATT–AP) (incl. PT) 17.8 6
La Civica (LC) 4.6 2
Forza Italia (FI) 2.8 1
Union of the Centre (UDC) 2.1 0
Brothers of Italy (FdI) 1.4 0
Fassa Association (Fassa) 1.0 1
Fugatti for President N/a N/a
Democratic Alliance for Trentino[8] Democratic Party (PD) (incl. Futura) 13.9 4
Francesco Valduga
Campobase (CB) 4.0 1
Greens and Left Alliance (AVS) 1.4 0
Action (Az) N/a N/a
Italia Viva (IV) N/a N/a
Fascegn N/a N/a
Autonomy House (CA) N/a N/a
Five Star Movement (M5S) 7.2 1
Alex Marini
People's Wave People's Union 0.8 0
Filippo Degasperi
Wave N/a N/a
My Valley N/a N/a
Alliance for Trentino Us with Divina for President (NcD) N/a N/a
Sergio Divina
Popular Alternative (AP) N/a N/a
Youth for Divina N/a N/a
Sovereign Popular Democracy (DSP) N/a N/a
Alternative N/a N/a
Elena Dardo

Opinion polling

Candidates

Political parties

Results

2023 Trentino provincial election results
Candidates Votes % Seats Parties Votes % Seats +/−
Maurizio Fugatti 129,758 51.82 1
Trentino League 30,347 13.05 5 –8
Brothers of Italy 28,714 12.35 5 +4
Fugatti for President 24,953 10.73 4 New
Trentino Tyrolean Autonomist Party 19,011 8.18 3 –3
La Civica 11,285 4.85 2 ±0
Forza Italia 4,708 2.02 0 –1
Fassa Association 2,018 0.87 1 ±0
Union of the Centre 1,362 0.59 0 ±0
Total 122,398 52.64 20 –4
Francesco Valduga 93,888 37.50 1
Democratic Party 38,689 16.64 7 +3
Campobase 19,553 8.41 3 +2
Autonomy House 9,968 4.29 1 New
Greens and Left Alliance 7,565 3.25 1 +1
Fascegn 3,634 1.56 0 ±0
Italia Viva 3,399 1.46 0 New
Action 3,302 1.42 0 New
Total 86,110 37.03 12 +5
Filippo Degasperi 9,533 3.81 1
Wave 5,864 2.52 0 New
My Valley 1,204 0.52 0 New
People's Union 1,088 0.47 0 ±0
Total 8,156 3.51 0
Marco Rizzo 5,651 2.26 0 Sovereign Popular Democracy 5,457 2.35 0 New
Sergio Divina 5,558 2.22 0
Popular Alternative 2,261 0.97 0 New
Us with Divina for President 1,845 0.79 0 New
Youth for Divina 642 0.28 0 New
Total 4,748 2.04 0
Alex Marini 4,796 1.92 0 Five Star Movement 4,523 1.95 0 –1
Elena Dardo 1,205 0.48 0 Alternative 1,121 0.48 0 New
Total candidates 250,389 100 3 Total parties 232,513 100 32 ±0
Source: Autonomous Province of Trento

South Tyrol

Parties

Name Ideology Leading
candidate(s)
2018 result Current seats
Votes (%) Seats
SVP South Tyrolean People's Party Christian democracy
Regionalism
Arno Kompatscher[2] 41.9%
15 / 35
14 / 35
TK Team K Liberalism
Regionalism
Paul Köllensperger
Maria Elisabeth Rieder[9]
15.2%
6 / 35
4 / 35
Lega League – United for Alto Adige Right-wing populism
Regionalism
Christian Bianchi[10] 11.4%
4 / 35
3 / 35
V–G–V Greens (incl. SI) Eco-socialism
Regionalism
Brigitte Foppa[11] 6.8%
3 / 35
3 / 35
dF Die Freiheitlichen National conservatism
Separatism
Sabine Zoderer[12] 6.2%
2 / 35
2 / 35
STF South Tyrolean Freedom National conservatism
Separatism
Sven Knoll[13] 6.2%
2 / 35
2 / 35
PD Democratic Party (incl. PSI) Social democracy Sandro Repetto[14] 3.8%
1 / 35
1 / 35
M5S Five Star Movement Populism Diego Nicolini 2.4%
1 / 35
1 / 35
FdI Brothers of Italy National conservatism Marco Galateo 1.7%
1 / 35
1 / 35
FI Forza Italia (incl. UdC) Liberal conservatism Carlo Vettori 1.0%
0 / 35
1 / 35
FSmW For South Tyrol with Widmann Christian democracy
Regionalism
Thomas Widmann[15]
DNE
1 / 35
Enzian Enzian COVID-19 scepticism
Regionalism
Josef Unterholzner[16]
DNE
1 / 35
Vita Vita COVID-19 scepticism
Anti-establishment
Renate Holzeisen[17]
DNE
0 / 35
JWA JWA List Separatism
Right-wing populism
Jürgen Wirth Anderlan[18]
DNE
0 / 35
CD Centre-Right Conservatism Filippo Maturi[19]
DNE
0 / 35
LC La Civica (incl. Az, IV) Liberalism Emanuela Albieri
DNE
0 / 35

Opinion polling

Local regression trend line of poll results

Results

PartyVotes%Seats+/–
South Tyrolean People's Party97,09234.5313−2
Team K31,20111.094−2
South Tyrolean Freedom30,58310.884+2
Greens25,4459.053±0
Brothers of Italy16,7475.962+1
JWA List16,5965.902New
Die Freiheitlichen13,8364.922±0
Democratic Party9,7073.451±0
For South Tyrol with Widmann9,6463.431±0
League–United for Alto Adige8,5413.041−3
La Civica7,3012.601New
Vita7,2222.571New
Five Star Movement2,0860.74−1
Enzian1,9900.71New
Forza Italia1,6250.58±0
Centre-Right1,6010.57New
Total281,219100.0035
Valid votes281,21996.87
Invalid/blank votes9,0803.13
Total votes290,299100.00
Registered voters/turnout429,84167.54
Source: Official Results
Popular vote
SVP
34.53%
TK
11.09%
STF
10.88%
Grüne
9.05%
FdI
5.96%
JWA
5.90%
dF
4.92%
PD
3.45%
Widmann
3.43%
Lega
3.04%
Civica
2.60%
Vita
2.57%
M5S
0.74%
Enzian
0.71%
FI
0.58%
CD
0.57%

References

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  1. ^ a b c withdrew