2016 Rome municipal election

2016 Rome municipal election
← 2013 5 June 2016 (first round)
19 June 2016 (second round)		 2021 →
Turnout57.0% Increase 4.2 pp (first round)
50.1% Decrease 6.9 pp (second round)
Mayoral election
 
Candidate Virginia Raggi Roberto Giachetti
Party M5S PD
Alliance – Centre-left
1st Round vote 453,806 320,170
Percentage 35.25% 24.87%
2nd Round vote 770,564 376,935
Percentage 67.15% 32.85%
First round results by municipi
Second round results by municipi
Red municipi are those with most votes for Giachetti and Yellow those for Raggi.
Mayor before election

Francesco Paolo Tronca
(Special commissioner)

 Elected mayor

Virginia Raggi
M5S

City Council election
All 48 seats in the Capitoline Assembly
25 seats needed for a majority
Party Leader Vote % Seats +/–
Five Star Movement Virginia Raggi 35.32 29 +25
Centre-left Roberto Giachetti 25.40 8 −21
Right-wing coalition Giorgia Meloni 19.63 6
Centre-right Alfio Marchini 11.30 4 −8
Left-wing coalition Stefano Fassina 4.43 1
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.

Snap municipal elections were held in Rome on 5 and 19 June 2016, to elect the Mayor of Rome and 48 members of the City Council, as well as the fifteen presidents and more than 400 councillors of the 15 municipi in which the municipality is divided.

The elections were called following the fall of the former Mayor of Rome Ignazio Marino, who was ousted from office after more than half of the members of the City Council resigned in October 2015.[1]

The first round of voting on 5 June produced no outright winner, resulting in a run-off election on 19 June between Virginia Raggi, the candidate of the Five Star Movement (M5S), and Roberto Giachetti, member of the Democratic Party (PD).[1] Raggi won the mayoral election with two-thirds of the vote,[2] and her party alone won a majority in the City Council of Rome with 29 of the 48 seats.[3]

The results were widely reported as a major breakthrough for the Five Star Movement, which had previously been seen as a protest party rather than a significant political force.[4][5] At the same round of elections, M5S also won Turin municipal elections.[4]

  1. ^ a b Rosie Scammell, "Rubbish on the streets, corruption in the air: Rome looks for a clean-up candidate", The Guardian, 12 June 2016
  2. ^ "Five Star Movement candidate Virginia Raggi could become Rome's mayor". The Age. 5 June 2016. Retrieved 11 June 2016.
  3. ^ "Comunali [Scrutini] Comune di ROMA - Elezioni del 19 giugno 2015 (ballottaggio)". Dipartimento per gli Affari Interni e Territoriali. Ministero Dell'Interno. Archived from the original on 30 June 2016. Retrieved 20 June 2016.
  4. ^ a b Rosie Scamell (20 June 2016). "Anti-establishment candidates elected to lead Rome and Turin". The Guardian. Retrieved 20 June 2016.
  5. ^ John Phillips (20 June 2016). "Rome elects first female mayor in breakthrough for Five Star Movement". The Telegraph. Retrieved 20 June 2016.