2021 Turin municipal election

Municipal elections is due to be held in Turin no later than June 2021. The incumbent Mayor of Turin is Chiara Appendino of Five Star Movement, who won the 2016 Turin municipal election.

2021 Turin municipal election
No later than June 2021
40 seats to the Turin municipal council
21 seats needed for a majority
 
Candidate Paolo Damilano
Party League
Alliance Centre-right coalition
Incumbent Mayor

Chiara Appendino
Five Star Movement

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.[1]

Background

Centre-left primary election
Candidate Party Votes % Notes
Igor Boni +E [2]
Luca Jahier Ind [3]
Enzo Lavolta PD [4]
Stefano Lo Russo PD [5]
Gianna Pentenero PD [6]
Mauro Salizzoni PD [7]
Total

Parties and candidates

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

Political force or alliance Constituent lists Candidate Notes
Beautiful Turin
 Lega
Paolo Damilano
 [8]
Brothers of Italy (FdI)
Forza Italia (FI)

Opinion polls

Centre-left primary election
Date Polling firm/
Client		 Sample size Lo Russo Salizzoni Others Undecided Lead
30 Dic 2020–5 Jan 2021 Winpoll 1,600 17.5 82.5 N/A N/A 65.0
Only CSX voting intention 23.3 76.7 N/A N/A 53.4

Hypothetical candidates
Date Polling firm/
Client		 Sample size Generic M5S Generic CSX Damilano Others Undecided Lead
30 Dic 2020–5 Jan 2021 Winpoll 1,600 9.8 41.2[lower-alpha 1] 40.3 8.7 N/A 0.9
7.3 53.7[lower-alpha 2] 34.2 4.8 N/A 19.5
  1. Stefano Lo Russo
  2. Mauro Salizzoni

Parties
Date Polling firm Sample size Centre-left Centre-right M5S Others Undecided Lead
PD LS +E IV A EV Other Lega FI FdI C! Other
30 Dic 2020–5 Jan 2021 Winpoll 1,600 33.1 2.3 1.8 2.2 3.8 2.0 N/A 18.9 6.5 14.8 0.5 N/A 8.1 6.0 35.0 14.2

Potential and declined candidates

Center-left coalition


Center-left coalition

Five Star Movement

References
  1. "Ministero dell'Interno – Approfondimento". Ministero dell'Interno (in Italian). Retrieved 17 July 2020.
  2. "Igor Boni: «Il futuro sindaco? Dovrà dare speranza. E allearsi con Milano»" (in Italian). Corriere della Sera. 7 November 2020. Retrieved 2 January 2021.
  3. "Luca Jahier: «Basta rassegnarsi al declino, per Torino c'è un posto in Europa»" (in Italian). Corriere della Sera. 6 November 2020. Retrieved 2 January 2021.
  4. "Pd, Enzo Lavolta formalizza la candidatura alle Primarie per la carica di sindaco di Torino" (in Italian). TorinoToday. 16 November 2020. Retrieved 2 January 2021.
  5. "Torino: primarie centrosinistra, si candida Lo Russo" (in Italian). ANSA. 16 October 2020. Retrieved 2 January 2021.
  6. "Per Pentenero spunta l'ipotesi del ticket: «Ma sono in campo per fare la sindaca»" (in Italian). Corriere della Sera. 9 December 2020. Retrieved 2 January 2021.
  7. "Salizzoni non arretra davanti a Lo Russo: «Io resto in corsa, anche per le primarie»" (in Italian). Corriere della Sera. 8 December 2020. Retrieved 2 January 2021.
  8. "Salvini ufficializza Damilano candidato sindaco di Torino: "Imprenditore fuori dalla politica"" (in Italian). La Repubblica. 17 December 2020. Retrieved 2 January 2021.
  9. "Chiamparino: «Io candidato? Non esiste»" (in Italian). Corriere della Sera. 31 December 2020. Retrieved 2 January 2021.
  10. "Guido Saracco rinuncia a candidarsi a sindaco di Torino per il centrosinistra" (in Italian). La Repubblica. 26 November 2020. Retrieved 2 January 2021.
  11. "Appendino sciogliele riserve, non si ricandida" (in Italian). ANSA. 13 October 2020. Retrieved 2 January 2021.
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