Tuscany, Giani (centre-left) wins by a wide margin. 47.7% turnout: a negative record

Vittoria larga del governatore uscente della Toscana Eugenio Giani, sullo sfidante di centrodestra Alessandro Tomasi. Giani ha raccolto il 54% dei voti, Tomasi il 40,9% e Antonella Bundu candidata con la lista Toscana Rossa (che mette insieme Rifondazione Comunista, Potere al Popolo e Possibile) il 5,2 per cento. Tredici i punti di scarto tra i principali contendenti. Giani vince anche in molte città del centrodestra, che difende solo il feudo di Grosseto. Nelle scorse elezioni regionali Giani con il 48,6% dei voti si impose con otto punti di scarto sulla rivale di centrodestra, la leghista Susanna Ceccardi (40,7%) mentre la competitor del M5s Irene Galletti si fermò al 6,4 per cento.

In the centre-left, the Pd is first party at 34.5 per cent, followed by Lista Giani presidente - Casa Riformista at 8.8 per cent, Alleanza Verdi Sinistra at 7 per cent and Movimento 5 Stelle at 4.4 per cent. In the centre-right, Fratelli d'Italia leads the way with 26.8 per cent, while Forza Italia, at 6.2 per cent, overtakes the Lega, at 4.4 per cent. Toscana Rossa has 4.5 per cent.

3 million Tuscans were called to the polls. Since 1970, the year in which the regions were established, the turnout at the regional elections fell from 95.9% to 48.28% in the 2015 elections, the lowest figure ever and the first time with less than half of the voters, and then rose again to 62.6% in the 2020 round (when the constitutional referendum on the reduction of the number of parliamentarians was also being voted on, which drove the turnout). This round saw a new heavy drop with a turnout of 47.7% (in line with 2015), about 15 points lower than five years ago. This is the lowest figure in the history of regional elections. The perception of a game that was not really contestable would have weighed on the non-voting.

"I want to thank Giani for this wonderful joy, to thank the entire progressive coalition, it is a victory that gives us joy and hope, we thank the Tuscans who wanted to continue in the wake of a progressive government," declared the Pd secretary Elly Schlein, during a press conference on the Regionals in the electoral committee for Eugenio Giani president. "Those who had hastened to declare the end of the progressive coalition are now belied in fact," she added

"In Tuscany, the wide field is a winner and now it must and will interpret the whole region," said Eugeni Giani speaking at the election committee. And again: "What comes from Tuscany, a land of good governance, is a national signal"