2001 Sicilian regional election

2001 Sicilian regional election
← 1996 24 June 2001 2006 →
All 90 seats to the Sicilian Regional Assembly
Turnout63.5%
  Majority party Minority party
 
Leader Salvatore Cuffaro Leoluca Orlando
Party CDU The Daisy
Alliance House of Freedoms The Olive Tree
Seats won 57 29
Popular vote 1,572,178 972,010
Percentage 59.1% 36.6%
President before election

Vincenzo Leanza
FI

President-elect

Salvatore Cuffaro
UDC

The 2001 Sicilian regional election was held on 24 June 2001. For the first time the president of Region was elected directly by the citizens.

The election was competed by three competitors: Salvatore Cuffaro, House of Freedoms candidate; Leoluca Orlando, candidate of The Olive Tree and former mayor of Palermo; and Sergio D'Antoni, leader of European Democracy. Cuffaro won by a landslide.