Ballots, polls closed in 42 municipalities. Turnout at 52%
Turnout eight points lower than in the first round (60.5%). Challenges in six provincial capitals. Voting for the first round in 148 Sardinian municipalities
Key points
Polls closed in the 12 regions where there were ballots for the administrative elections, which affected 42 municipalities, including six provincial capitals (Lecco, Arezzo, Macerata, Chieti, Trani and Agrigento). The turnout was 52%, eight points lower than the first round (60.5%). Among the provincial capitals, the lowest turnout was in Agrigento (41%), down 18 points from the first round (59.1%). The highest was in Lecco (59.3%), just over a point lower than a fortnight ago (60.5%)
The ballots in the six main municipalities and in Mandatoriccio
As mentioned, 42 municipalities are returning to the ballot for the administrative elections set for Sunday 7 and Monday 8 June. In Lecco, the runoff will be between centre-right candidate Filippo Boscagli and centre-left candidate and outgoing mayor Mauro Gattinoni. In Arezzo the challenge will be between the centre-right candidate Marcello Comanducci and the candidate of the broad camp Vincenzo Ceccarelli. In Macerata the centre-right candidate and outgoing mayor Sandro Parcaroli and the candidate of the wide field Gianluca Tittarelli will compete. In Chieti, the campo largo candidate Giovanni Legnini will challenge the centre-right candidate Cristiano Sicari. In Trani, the runoff is between centre-left candidate Marco Galiano and centre-right candidate Angelo Guarriello. In Agrigento, centre-left candidate Michele Sodano and centre-right candidate Gerlando Alonge will compete. There will also be a runoff in the municipality of Mandatoriccio (Cosenza), which has fewer than 15,000 inhabitants, and this is because in the first round the two candidates for mayor Maria Teresa Villella (Nuova Alba) and Cataldo Iozzi (Uniti per Mandatoriccio) obtained exactly the same number of votes: 852 preferences each.
Also 149 municipalities in Sardinia are voting
Administrative elections will also be held in Sardinia on Sunday and Monday. Out of a total of 377, 149 municipalities on the island are going to the polls for the choice of mayors and the renewal of municipal councils. Despite the fact that about 40 per cent of the island's communities are affected, there are many small ones, and the total number of voters called to the polls is about 440,000, around 30 per cent of the total. Most of the municipalities affected by these administrative elections in Sardinia come from the province that has the smallest centres: in the Oristano area there are 38 municipalities on the ballot. In the two Metropolitan Cities of Cagliari and Sassari, 27 towns each are voting, 20 are the municipalities in the province of Nuoro, 13 in the province of North-East Gallura Sardinia, 11 in the Medio Campidano, 7 in Ogliastra and 6 in the province of Sulcis Iglesiente.
