2005 Venetian regional election

2005 Venetian regional election

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All 60 seats to the Regional Council
Majority party Minority party   Leader Giancarlo Galan Massimo Carraro Party Forza Italia Independent Alliance House of Freedoms The Union Seats won 39 19 Seat change 2 4 Popular vote 1,359,879 1,138,631 Percentage 50.58% 42.35% Swing 4.36% 4.13%
President before election Giancarlo Galan Forza Italia Subsequent President Giancarlo Galan Forza Italia

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The Venetian regional election of 2005 took place on 3–4 April 2005.

Giancarlo Galan (Forza Italia, House of Freedoms) was re-elected for the third time in a row President of the Region, but the support for him was diminished by the presence of a third candidate, Giorgio Panto, who picked votes both from the centre-right and the Venetist camps, and of a fourth candidate representing the far right, Roberto Bussinello.

Although Forza Italia remained the largest party in the Council and also in the Region as a whole (The Olive Tree was only an electoral alliance at the time and the three parties which were part of it formed separate groups in the Council), it suffered a serious decline in term of votes, from 30.3% of 2000 to 22.7%.

Venetist parties had a very good result: the combined score of Liga Veneta (14.7%), North-East Project (5.4%) and Liga Fronte Veneto (1.2%) was 21.3%, up from the 15.6% of 2000 (Liga Veneta 12.0%, Veneti d'Europa 2.4% and Fronte Marco Polo 1.2%).