2010 Piedmontese regional election

2010 Piedmentese regional election
28–29 March 2010
All 60 seats to the Regional Council of Piedmont
Turnout64.33% ( 7.04%)
  Majority party Minority party
 
Leader Roberto Cota Mercedes Bresso
Party Northern League Democratic Party
Alliance Centre-right Centre-left
Last election 25 seats, 47.0% 38 seats, 50.9%
Seats won 36 22
Seat change 11 16
Popular vote 1,043,318 1,033,946
Percentage 47.3% 46.9%
Swing 0.3% 4.0%
President before election

Mercedes Bresso
PD

 President-elect

Roberto Cota
LN

The 2010 Piedmontese regional election took place on 28–29 March 2010 as part of Italy's round of regional elections. Mercedes Bresso of the centre-left Democratic Party, the incumbent president of the region, lost her seat to Roberto Cota, leader of the Northern League Piedmont (Lega Piemonte) and floor leader of Lega Nord (Northern League) in the Italian Chamber of Deputies, who was backed also by The People of Freedom.

Cota's lead of Bresso was of only 0.4%, in one of the region's narrowest elections ever. The League thus secured a second region, after having conquered the presidency of Veneto with Luca Zaia with a much more convincing margin.

In January 2014, the election results were annulled on the grounds that the Pensioners' Party list in Cota's center-right alliance had been submitted with forged signatures. Although the Cota government filed an appeal, it was overturned by the Council of State on 11 February 2014 and the government was ordered to call new elections. On 6 March, the Piedmontese regional administrative court upheld an appeal from the Five Star Movement and ordered Cota to hold new elections within one week of the notification of the ruling.

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