Pacitalian regional and communal elections, 2024
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1,033 regional deputies 16,748 regional administrators 74,872 communal mayors and councillors | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Turnout | 91.33% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 2024 regional and communal elections in Pacitalia were held on November 25th, 2024. Pacitalian voters elected 1,033 deputies to the country's 22 regional parliamentary bodies, which govern their respective autonomous communities. Voters simultaneously elected mayors, councillors, and regional administrators to more than 91,000 open public offices nationwide.
The Christian Democrats won the largest share of seats in regional parliaments and over 40 percent of available mayor and council positions across the country — the first defeat for the centre-left Pacitalian Social Democratic Congress in a nationwide election in nine years. Regional parties performed well but still saw their share of votes and seats decline compared to 2021.
The results prompted Damián Moya to resign as PSDC leader and Prime Minister the following week.
Background
Subnational elections in Pacitalia are triennial and held on the last Monday of November in the year following a scheduled national parliamentary election.
As Pacitalia is a unitary state, the national government has the power to dissolve regional parliaments early, suspend or delay regional elections, or to hold a national-level referendum on the same day as a regional election. Otherwise, national and subnational election dates are decoupled. If a snap election is held at the national level before it is legally required, no corresponding election is mandated at the regional level. For example, the last parliamentary election was held in 2023, meaning the next one is scheduled for the end of November, 2026. If a parliamentary election were called in the spring of 2025, before the end of the term, it would not automatically result in a regional election the following spring.
Regional parliaments also have the power to dissolve themselves early, for reasons such as political gridlock, and can hold a special election, to which any elected deputies serve only the remainder of the existing three-year term.
Pacitalia uses simple proportional representation to elect deputies to regional parliaments, unlike at the national level, where that method elects some lawmakers but the rest, coming from geographic districts, are chosen through instant-runoff voting. Mayors are elected using simple plurality voting, with the exception of Timiocato and Nortopalazzo, which use instant-runoff voting. Councillors are elected using at-large voting, electing the top x number of candidates from a broad list. Municipalities are not allowed to use a ward system.
Candidates for regional and communal offices can, and usually do, run under a party banner. Conversely, so-called regional administrators, who are responsible for overseeing things like local land and water management, and the administration of some public services like parks and green spaces, sewage, or waste disposal, must be non-partisan.
Once regional and communal officeholders are elected, parties most often enter into localized coalition agreements to ensure a working majority on their respective councils for the entirety of the term. The media typically define projections of so-called "overall control" on councils within the context of traditional left-right politics.
The number of regional deputies increased in this election, from 914 to 1,033, following on a PSDC campaign promise in the previous parliamentary election to strengthen regional governance and representation.
Regional results
Though 2024 marked the best-ever result for the Christian Democrats in a nationwide election, vote splitting and dispersion resulted in only two of the 22 regional parliaments being controlled by a single party — Farronia and Trasteveria by the Christian Democrats. This is the largest number of deadlocked regional parliaments in Pacitalian history and is in sharp contrast to the previous regional election in 2021, where majority control was won by a single party in 17 of the 22 parliaments.
The 20 bodies will eventually be governed by a working coalition or informal agreement between two or more parties, typically along ideological lines, though in some regions, a grand coalition may be required to govern.
By majority control
The table below shows any shifts in control from the previous election as well as the likeliest outcome from coalition negotiations based on the number of seats awarded to parties.
If a shift in overall control will most likely result in a change of government that excludes the previous party or parties in power, the respective cell is highlighted in yellow.
| Region | Current control | New control | |||
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| Autonomous communities | |||||
| Alt-Empordà | Empordian League (LE) | No overall control | Regional party majority (20/35) | ||
| Amalfia | Federation of Progressive Democrats (FPD) | No overall control | Centre-right majority (29/55) | ||
| Antigonia | Federation of Progressive Democrats (FPD) | No overall control | Centre-right majority (17/30) | ||
| Baix-Empordà | Empordian Socialist Party (PSE) | No overall control | Regional party majority (24/45) | ||
| Beracanto | Federation of Progressive Democrats (FPD) | No overall control | Centre-right majority (38/67) | ||
| Campo Nazionale | No overall control (PSDC-led coalition) | No overall control | Centre-right majority (23/41) | ||
| Cauda | Christian Democrats (PDC) | No overall control | Right-wing majority (23/31) | ||
| Dossavora | Pacitalian Social Democratic Congress (PSDC) | No overall control | Centre-left majority (18/33) | ||
| Farronia | Christian Democrats (PDC) | Christian Democrats (PDC) | |||
| Franconia | No overall control (PSDC-led coalition) | No overall control | Centre-right majority (33/57) | ||
| Marquería | No overall control (PDU-led coalition) | No overall control | Centre-right majority (33/55) | ||
| Mediolania | Christian Democrats (PDC) | No overall control | Centre-right majority (26/45) | ||
| Montagnera | No overall control (PDC-led coalition) | No overall control | Centre-right majority (18/33) | ||
| Palatinia | No overall control (PSDC-led coalition) | No overall control | Centre-right majority (21/39) | ||
| Pomentane | Pacitalian Social Democratic Congress (PSDC) | No overall control | Centre-left majority (52/95) | ||
| Pungaria | Pacitalian Social Democratic Congress (PSDC) | No overall control | Centre-right majority (33/63) | ||
| Rossopunia | Pacitalian Social Democratic Congress (PSDC) | No overall control | Grand coalition (21/41) | ||
| Sambuca | Pacitalian Social Democratic Congress (PSDC) | No overall control | Centre-right majority (35/65) | ||
| Trasteveria | Christian Democrats (PDC) | Christian Democrats (PDC) | |||
| Regional-level cities | |||||
| Nortopalazzo | Pacitalian Social Democratic Congress (PSDC) | No overall control | Centre-left majority (21/35) | ||
| Timiocato | Pacitalian Social Democratic Congress (PSDC) | No overall control | Centre-left majority (22/35) | ||