2021 Turin municipal election

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Turnout	331,566 · 48.08% ( 9.10 pp) 290,632 · 42.14% ( 12.27 pp)
First party Second party   Candidate Stefano Lo Russo Paolo Damilano Party Democratic Party Independent Alliance Centre-left Centre-right Last election 41.83% 45.44% 18.76% (separately) N/A Seats before 11 4 Seats won 24 13 Seat change 13 9 Popular vote 140,200 168,997 124,347 116,322 Percentage 43.86% 59.23% 38.90% 40.77% Swing 2.03 pp 13.79 pp 20.14 pp N/A
Mayor before election Chiara Appendino M5S Elected mayor Stefano Lo Russo PD

Municipal elections were held in Turin, Piedmont, on 3 and 4 October 2021 to elect the mayor of Turin and the 38 members of the City Council of Turin. Originally scheduled for June 2021, the election was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy. Since no mayoral candidate won a majority of votes on the first round, where the centre-left coalition candidate Stefano Lo Russo (a member of the Catholic wing of the Democratic Party) narrowly finished first against most opinion polling, a runoff election was held on 17 and 18 October 2021.^[1] The second round was won in a landslide by Lo Russo, who outperformed the polls and was officially inaugurated as the new mayor of Turin on 27 October 2021.^[2][3] Chiara Appendino of the Five Star Movement, who was the incumbent mayor of Turin, did not run for re-election.^[4]

The voting system for the office of mayor of Turin 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, 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.^[5] The election of the City Council of Turin 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 the D'Hondt method for seat allocation. Only coalitions with more than 3% of votes are eligible to get any seats.^[5]

• Mauro Salizzoni, medic and regional councilor of Piedmont (since 2019).^[11]

• Sergio Chiamparino, former president of Piedmont (2014–2019) and mayor of Turin (2001–2011).^[12]
• Guido Saracco, rector of the Polytechnic University of Turin since 2018.^[13]

• Chiara Appendino, mayor of Turin since 2016.^[14]

Damilano vs. Lo Russo

Candidate		First round		Runoff		Leader's seats	Political party or party list		Votes	%	Seats
		Votes	%	Votes	%
	Stefano Lo Russo	140,200	43.86	168,997	59.23	–		Democratic Party	85,890	28.56	17
								Lo Russo List	15,013	4.99	2
								Ecologist Left	10,807	3.59	2
								Moderates	10,177	3.38	2
								Turin Tomorrow	7,960	2.65	1
								Article One – PSI	2,407	0.80	–
							Total		132,254	43.97	24
	Paolo Damilano	124,347	38.90	116,322	40.77	Y		Beautiful Turin	35,658	11.86	4
								Brothers of Italy	31,490	10.47	3
								League	29,593	9.84	3
								Forza Italia – UDC – PLI	15,951	5.30	2
								Turin Progress	2,236	0.74	–
								The People of the Family	1,320	0.44	–
								Yes TAV Yes Work – Renaissance	1,305	0.43	–
							Total		117,553	39.08	12
	Valentina Sganga	28,785	9.01	–	–	Y		Five Star Movement	24,058	8.00	2
								Green Europe	2,711	0.90	–
							Total		26,769	8.90	2
	Angelo d'Orsi	8,095	2.53	–	–	–		Left in Common (PRC – DemA – SA)	3,512	1.17	–
								Italian Communist Party	1,838	0.61	–
								Power to the People	1,656	0.55	–
							Total		7,006	2.33	–
	Ugo Mattei	7,406	2.32	–	–	–		Futura	6,975	2.32	–
	Francesco Ivano Verra	2,677	0.84	–	–	–		Italexit	2,353	0.78	–
								We Citizens	240	0.08	–
							Total		2,593	0.86	–
	Davide Betti	2,241	0.70	–	–	–		Gay Party	1,336	0.44	–
								Italian Animalist Party	775	0.26	–
							Total		2,111	0.70	–
	Greta Giusi Di Cristina	2,123	0.66	–	–	–		Communist Party	1,552	0.52	–
								Turin Future City	454	0.15	–
							Total		2,006	0.67	–
	Paolo Alonge	1,666	0.52	–	–	–		3V Movement	1,609	0.53	–
	Roberto Salerno	910	0.28	–	–	–		Turin Environmental Movement	792	0.26	–
	Lorenzo Varaldo	545	0.17	–	–	–		Prohibition of Dismissing	493	0.16	–
	Massimo Chiesi	384	0.12	–	–	–		Workers' Communist Party	360	0.12	–
	Emilio Mazza	264	0.08	–	–	–		Turin Capital of Europe	262	0,09	–
Total candidates		319,643	100	285,319	100	2	Total parties		300,783	100	38
Total valid votes		319,643	96.40	285,319	98.17
Blank or invalid ballots		11,923	3.60	5,313	1.83
Turnout		331,566	48.08	290,632	42.14
Eligible voters		689,684	100.00	689,684	100.00
Source: Ministry of the Interior (first round – second round)

Notes

• According to the Italian electoral law of 1993 for the municipalities of Italy, if a defeated candidate for mayor obtains over 3% of votes, the mayoral candidate is automatically elected city councillor (in this case Lo Russo, Damilano, and Sganga were all elected). The candidate elected mayor votes on the city council but is not a member of it.

• 2021 Italian local elections
• Civic list (Italy)
• Elections in Turin

• Vassallo, Salvatore (April 2022). "The local elections of 2021. Voting in the large cities". Contemporary Italian Politics. 14 (2): 151–171. doi:10.1080/23248823.2022.2051831. ISSN 2324-8823.