2016 Milan municipal election

2016 Milan municipal election

← 2011 5 June 2016 (first round)
19 June 2016 (second round)[1]
2021 →
Turnout54.6% Decrease 13.0 pp (first round)
51.8% Decrease 2.8 pp (second round)
Mayoral election
 
Candidate Giuseppe Sala Stefano Parisi
Party Independent Independent
Alliance Centre-left Centre-right
1st Round vote 224,156 219,218
Percentage 41.7% 40.8%
2nd Round vote 264,481 247,052
Percentage 51.7% 48.3%

Result of second round voting by Milan municipalities. Red municipalities are those with most votes for Sala and Azure those for Parisi.

Mayor before election

Giuliano Pisapia
Independent

Elected mayor

Giuseppe Sala
Independent

City Council election

All 48 seats in City Council
25 seats needed for a majority
Party Leader Vote % Seats +/–
Centre-left Giuseppe Sala 41.20 29 0
Centre-right Stefano Parisi 40.99 15 −2
M5S Gianluca Corrado 10.40 3 +2
MiC Basilio Rizzo 3.50 1 −1
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.

Municipal elections were held in Milan on 5 and 19 June 2016 to elect the Mayor and the 48 members of the City Council, as well as the nine presidents and 270 councillors of the nine administrative zones in which the municipality is divided, each one having one president and 30 councillors.

Incumbent Mayor Giuliano Pisapia choose not to run for re-election for a second term in office.[2]

As no candidate won a majority in the first round, a runoff was held between the top two candidates – Giuseppe Sala, an independent business executive and Milan Expo 2015 CEO, close to the Democratic Party (PD), and Stefano Parisi, former CEO of the telecommunication company Fastweb close to Silvio Berlusconi's Forza Italia (FI) – which Sala won by a narrow margin.

The new Mayor was also appointed by law as general Mayor of the former Province of Milan now called Metropolitan City of Milan.

  1. ^ According to the Italian Law, the first round of local elections in Italy must always be held on a sunday between 15 April and 15 June. The second round must always be held on a sunday after 14 days from first round.
  2. ^ Oriana Liso (March 22, 2015). "L'annuncio di Pisapia: "Non mi ricandido"". La Repubblica. Retrieved December 22, 2015.