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Elections in San Marino gives information on election

Election

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and election results in San Marino

Politics of San Marino

Politics of San Marino takes place in a framework of a parliamentary representative democratic republic, whereby the Captains Regent are the heads of state, and of a multi-party system. Executive power is exercised by the government. Legislative power is vested in both the government and the Grand...

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San Marino elects on national level a legislature

Legislature

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. The Grand and General Council

Grand and General Council

The Grand and General Council is the parliament of San Marino. The council has 60 members elected for a five-year term.The electoral law was based on proportional representation from 1945 to 2007. Since then, it is based on the electoral system of Italian municipalities...

(Consiglio Grande e Generale) has 60 members, elected for a five year term by proportional representation

Proportional representation

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with national majority bonus (the winning coalition receives at least 35 seats on 60).

San Marino has a multi-party system, with numerous parties

Political Parties

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in which no one party often has a chance of gaining power alone, and parties

Political Parties

must work with each other to form coalition government

Coalition government

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Since early 2008, there is an electoral threshold of 3.5%.

Latest elections

A parliamentary election was held in San Marino on 9 November 2008. The election was contested by two major coalitions: Patto per San Marino

Pact for San Marino

Pact for San Marino is a right-wing coalition of parties for the 2008 general election in San Marino.It is composed of four lists for a total of eight parties:*Sammarinese Christian Democratic Party , including also:...

(centre-right) and Riforme e Libertà

Reforms and Freedom

Reforms and Freedom is a left-wing coalition of parties for the 2008 general election in San Marino.It is composed of three lists for a total of five parties:*Party of Socialists and Democrats , including also:...

(centre-left).

Summary of the 9 November 2008 Grand and General Council

Grand and General Council

Euro-Populars for San Marino

The Euro-Populars for San Marino are a christian-democratic political party in San Marino.It emerged in September 2007 as a split from the Sammarinese Christian Democratic Party . It held 5 seats out of 60 in the Grand and General Council prior to the elections from its time as part of the PDCS...

-A. e L.

Arengo and Freedom

Arengo and Freedom is a liberal and social liberal political party in San Marino.It was founded in September 2008 by two splinters from the Party of Socialists and Democrats, Fabio Berardi and Nadia Ottaviani, both members of the Grand and General Council, who considered the party to be too...

|valign="top" |6,693
|valign="top" |31.90%
|valign="top" |22
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|align="left" valign="top"|Alleanza Popolare
|valign="top" |2,417
|valign="top" |11.52%
|valign="top" |7
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|align="left" valign="top"|Lista della Libertà

Freedom List

Freedom List is a political coalition for the 2008 general election in San Marino, composed of:*New Socialist Party *We Sammarinese...

|valign="top" |1,317
|valign="top" |6.28%
|valign="top" |4
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|align="left" valign="top"|Unione Sammarinese dei Moderati

Sammarinese Union of Moderates

The Sammarinese Union of Moderates is a right-wing, christian-democratic, conservative, and national conservative political coalition in San Marino....

|valign="top" |874
|valign="top" |4.17%
|valign="top" |2
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|align="left" valign="top"|votes to the coalition
|valign="top" |73
|valign="top" |0.35%
|valign="top" |
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|style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align="left" valign="top"|Total Patto per San Marino

Pact for San Marino

|width="75" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|11,373
|width="30" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|54.22%
|width="50" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|35
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|align="left" valign="top"|Partito dei Socialisti e dei Democratici

Party of Socialists and Democrats

The Party of Socialists and Democrats is a centre-left, social-democratic political party in San Marino. It is a member of the Socialist International and its current-day Italian counterpart is the Democratic Party....

|valign="top" |6,703
|valign="top" |31.96%
|valign="top" |18
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|align="left" valign="top"|Sinistra Unita

United Left (San Marino)

United Left is a left-wing political coalition in San Marino.It was founded in 2006 by the Sammarinese Communist Refoundation, formed by those who did not agree with the transformation of the Sammarinese Communist Party into the Sammarinese Democratic Progressive Party in 1992, and the Left Party,...

|valign="top" |1,797
|valign="top" |8.57%
|valign="top" |5
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|align="left" valign="top"|Democratici di Centro

Centre Democrats (San Marino)

The Centre Democrats are a social christian political party in San Marino. Its Italian counterpart is The Daisy.It emerged in 2007 as a left-wing split from the Sammarinese Christian Democratic Party...

|valign="top" |1,037
|valign="top" |4.94%
|valign="top" |2
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|align="left" valign="top"|votes to the coalition
|valign="top" |65
|valign="top" |0.31%
|valign="top" |
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|style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align="left" valign="top"|Total Riforme e Libertà

Reforms and Freedom

|width="75" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|9,602
|width="30" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|45.78%
|width="50" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|25
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|style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align="left" valign="top"|Total valid votes (turnout: 68.48%)
|width="75" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|20,975
|width="30" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|
|width="50" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|60
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|align=left valign=top|Invalid/Blank votes
|valign="top"|831
|valign="top" rowspan="3" colspan="2"|
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|align=left valign=top|Total votes cast
|valign="top"|21,806
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|align=left valign=top|Registered voters
|valign="top"|31,845
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|align="left" colspan="4"|Sources: Elezioni Politiche 2008 - Repubblica di San Marino
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Past elections and referendums

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