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Turnout | 57.0% ![]() 50.1% ![]() | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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![]() First round results by municipi | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
![]() Second round results by municipi Red municipi are those with most votes for Giachetti and Yellow those for Raggi. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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]
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