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This paper examines the preferences over candidates expressed by voters in the last three regional Italian elections (1995, 2000, 2005). In these elections, voters were asked to express a single preference, as opposed to the multiple preferences allowed until 1990. The introduction of single preferences voting from 1995 onward had the effect of reducing the number of preferences expressed in 1995, & then increasing it in the subsequent regional elections of 2000 & 2005. The preference rate (that is, the percentage relation between preferences expressed & preferences allowed) dropped at first from 29% in 1990 to 25,2 in 1995, & then increased to 44,3 in 2000 & to 51,7 in 2005, thus doubling the 1995 figure. As far as electoral behaviour in the various geographical regions is concerned, the results of the analysis show to be an increase everywhere in the preference rate & confirm that voters' tendencies to make use of the preference vote varies, for a number of reasons (among which the different subcultures of the various areas), depending on both the region & the list voted for. The remains a North-South divide, which, however, is less significant than in 1995. In the case of all list, there is a tendency for preferences to be disturbed unevenly among the candidates, given the greater attraction of certain candidates (nearly always those at the top of a list). Tables. Adapted from the source document.

In this paper the author statistically analyses the main results of the 2004 elections for Italian Members of the European Parliament. Compared to the previous European elections, of 1999, there was an increase in turn out of 1.9 percent, thus bringing to a halt the negative trend which characterized Italian European elections from 1979 to 1999. In terms of the distribution of valid votes among the official lists, there was a significant swing away from Forza Italia & from the Bonino-Pannella list, a minor worsening of the position of the main Centre-left list (Uniti nell'Ulivo), & an improvement for Rifondazione Comunista, Alleanza Nazionale, Unione di Centro, the Lega Nord, Comunisti Italiani & the Greens (Verdi). Finally, it is noted that in terms of preferences in favour of the candidates of the lists voted for, although in each of Italy's five constituencies voters were allowed to express up to three preferences, the number of preferences expressed was in fact lower than in 1999. Adapted from the source document.

Some reflections on the fifty years of the publication, Il Politico, & the author's career at the publication. Thanks are given to the people who helped him & to some of the chief editors, particularly Bruno Leoni. E. Miller

Analysis of preferential voting in Italy, based on results of the 1970, 1975, 1980, 1985, and 1990 local elections. Summary in English.