A Municipal election was held in Venice, Italy, on 20 and 21 September. It was originally scheduled to take place on May 31, 2020, but it was delayed due to the coronavirus pandemic in Italy.Elezioni Regionali, il 31 Maggio si vota in Toscana, Veneto, Campania, Puglia, Liguria e Marche

Electoral system 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.

Candidates

Parties and candidates This is a list of the parties (and their respective leaders) which will participate in the election.

Political force or allianceConstituent listsLeader Centre-right coalition Forza Italia (FI) Luigi Brugnaro League (Lega) Brothers of Italy (FdI) Luigi Brugnaro for Mayor Centre-left coalition Democratic Party (PD) Pier Paolo Baretta Green Progressive Venice (incl. Art.1, EV, SI, Pos and PRC) Venice is Yours (incl. IV, +E and PSI) Common Idea for Venice and Mestre Turning Point in Common (incl. Volt and IiC) Five Star Movement (M5S) Sara Visman All the City Together! (TCI) (incl. PaP) Giovanni Andrea Martini Earth and Water 2020 (TeA) Marco Gasparinetti Party of Venetians (PdV) Stefano Zecchi Solidary and Young Italy (IGS) Maurizio Callegari Sitran Civic List Marco Sitran

Opinion polls Candidates

Date Polling firm/Client Sample size Brugnaro Baretta Visman Martini Zecchi Gasparinetti Others Undecided Lead 10 Aug 2020 Fabbrica Politica 500 55.0 24.3 5.4 5.6 7.1 2.6 30.7

Parties Date Polling firm Sample sizeCentre-rightCentre-leftM5S TCI TeA PdV Others Undecided LeadLegaFIFdIOtherPDIVVVPOther 16 Jun 2020 Quorum 900 22.6 3.9 7.8 21.1 23.2 1.7 1.7 0.4 5.0 2.4 5.2 3.0 2.0 53.1 0.6

Results

+ Summary of the 20–21 September 2020 Venice City Council election results Candidates Votes % Leaders seats Parties Votes % SeatsLuigi Brugnaro 66,750 54.14 – Luigi Brugnaro for Mayor 37,914 31.67 14 League – Venetian League 14,806 12.37 5 Brothers of Italy 7,855 6.56 2 Forza Italia 3,255 2.72 1 The Cities 1,148 0.96 – Pier Paolo Baretta 36,092 29.27 1 Democratic Party 22,962 19.18 7 Green Progressive Venice 5,907 4.93 1 Venice is Yours (+Eu – IV – PSI) 4,308 3.60 1 Turning Point in Common (Volt – IiC) 952 0.80 – Common Idea 789 0.66 – Marco Gasparinetti 5,005 4.06 1 Earth and Water 2020 4,847 4.05 – Sara Visman 4,822 3.91 1 Five Star Movement 4,716 3.94 –Stefano Zecchi 4,344 3.52 1 Party of Venetians 4,228 3.53 – Giovanni Andrea Martini 4,305 3.49 1 All the City Together! 3,021 2.52 – For Mestre and Venice 1,083 0.90 – Alessandro Busetto 807 0.65 – Workers' Communist Party 783 0.65 – Marco Sitran 605 0.49 – Sitran Civic List 553 0.46 – Maurizio Callegari 570 0.46 – Solidary and Young Italy – Vox – Human Value Party 570 0.48 – Total 123,300 100.00 5 119,697 100.00 31Source: Ministry of the Interior

See also 2020 Italian local elections

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