2021 Rome municipal election

2021 Rome municipal election
← 2016 3–4 October 2021 (first round)
17–18 October 2021 (second round)		 2026 →
Turnout48.5% Decrease 8.5 pp (first round)
40.7% Decrease 7.8 pp (second round)
Mayoral election
 
Candidate Roberto Gualtieri Enrico Michetti
Party PD Independent
Alliance Centre-left Centre-right
1st Round vote 299,976 334,548
Percentage 27.8% 30.1%
2nd Round vote 565,352 374,577
Percentage 60.2% 39.8%
Mayor before election

Virginia Raggi
M5S

Elected mayor

Roberto Gualtieri
PD

City Council election
All 48 seats in the Capitoline Assembly
25 seats needed for a majority
Party Leader Vote % Seats +/–
Centre-left Roberto Gualtieri 27.9 29 +21
Centre-right Enrico Michetti 31.4 9 +5
Calenda List Carlo Calenda 19.1 5
Five Star Movement Virginia Raggi 17.7 5 −24
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.

Municipal elections took place in Rome on 3–4 October 2021 and 17–18 October 2021. Open for election were the office of Mayor of Rome and all the 48 seats of the City Council, as well as the presidents and councils of each of the fifteen municipi in which the city is divided.

Local elections in Italy are usually scheduled between 15 April and 15 June, however on 4 March 2021 the Italian government decided to postpone them to the autumn following a new spike of cases in the coronavirus pandemic.[1]

Roberto Gualtieri, member of the Democratic Party (PD) and former minister, was elected mayor, winning in the runoff against centre-right independent Enrico Michetti with just over 60% of the vote.[2] The incumbent mayor Virginia Raggi was defeated after failing to qualify for the runoff.[3]

  1. ^ "Elezioni rinviate in autunno: voto administrative tra il 15 settembre e il 15 ottobre" (in Italian). Il Sole 24 Ore. 4 March 2021. Retrieved 11 March 2021.
  2. ^ "Roberto Gualtieri elected new mayor of Rome". Wanted in Rome. 18 October 2021. Retrieved 21 October 2021.
  3. ^ Amante, Angelo; Jones, Gavin (4 October 2021). "Centre-left wins Italian mayoral elections, 5-Star loses Rome". Reuters. Retrieved 12 October 2021.