Talk:2019 Italian local elections

Voting System
Honestly, the explanation of the voting system on all of these pages explaining it makes no sense, and doesn't seem to be correct, anyway. I'm not sure if this is because someone's poor translation or something else. For the mayor, the law reads for municipality over a population of 15,000 that if not candidate receives a majority of the vote in the first round, then there is a second round. Because the second round only allows the top two candidates, unless they tie, the mayor is always going to win with the majority of the vote. So this part:

"If no candidate receives at least 50% of votes, the top two candidates go to a second round after two weeks. This gives a result whereby the winning candidate may be able to claim majority support, although it is not guaranteed. "

Doesn't make any sense as written without mentioning that the exception is only in the case of a tie. The section below that explaining election of the city council is always very misleading. While there are preference votes for individual candidates to move them up the list, I'm pretty sure most people simply vote for the party and/or mayor and don't write in their preferences. More than that, there is no mention of the majority prize/bonus (and when it's triggered and when it's not), no mention that a list with a plurality in the first round can still lose to a list that has fewer votes if it's attached to the winning mayoral candidate, ect...A good example of how confusing this is written, if you go look at the most recent local election in Turin, you'd not understand given how this section is written how the center-left won a plurality (42% vs. the center-right's 31%), but only ended up with 11 of the 40 seats on council. --Criticalthinker (talk) 11:15, 28 February 2020 (UTC)