All three regions saw the reconfirmation of their respective political forces, but abstention grew everywhere. The trend is taking on critical contours
This one is also archived round of regional elections it’s time to start taking stock of the latest consultations. Let’s start from the most worrying fact, which unites Veneto, Puglia and Campania, and which has recurred continuously in recent electoral years: abstentionism.
Abstention continues to grow
The disturbing trend that accompanies the latest elections in our country has once again been confirmed. The definitive turnout recorded a worrying drop in all three regionswith data that leaves little room for interpretation and signals an increasingly deep rift between the electoral body and Italian politics.
In Campania the definitive figure stands at 44.06% of those eligible, a drop of eleven percentage points compared to the 2020 regional electionswhen 55.52% of the population had voted.
There Puglia records an even more dramatic hemorrhage of participation, with a 41.83% which represents a drop of fourteen points compared to 56.43% five years ago.
But the most critical data comes from Venetowhere turnout drops to a worrying level 44.64%, more than sixteen points lower and a half compared to 61.16% in 2020.
This is not an isolated phenomenon. The trend was already evident in the previous rounds: manifested itself during the 2022 political electionswhere the participation of 63.9% of those entitled was a drop of 9% on the previous ones, continued with the 2024 European elections (48.31%, -6.19 compared to the previous ones) e now it is definitively consolidated in this season’s regional elections. The picture is clear and alarming.
TO with each round of electoral consultations, fewer and fewer citizens consider it important to go to the polls.
The League remains the leading party in Veneto
In the Veneto the center-right has established itself clearly and unequivocally, as expected, with Alberto Stefani who won 61.3% of the votes and who will become the new governor of the Region, succeeding the “Doge” Luca Zaia after fifteen years of government.
The most important data, however, was that relating to the first party. The Carroccio, based on the projection of the ‘Consorzio Opinio Italia per Rai’, confirms itself as the most voted party by the Venetians, with 36% of the preferencesfollowed by FdI with 18.8%. The centre-right coalition as a whole received 63.9%, while the centre-left opposition managed to keep its total to 30.44%.
The prime minister Giorgia Melonithrough an official statement on social networks, explicitly wanted to congratulate Stefani for the victory, qualifying it as the tangible result of the “work and credibility of our coalition”, Meloni also took the opportunity to extend his best wishes to the winners of the other two regions, Antonio Decaro in Puglia and Roberto Fico in Campania.
The regions confirm themselves as “fiefdoms”
What emerges from this year’s regional elections, and which is accentuated with the results of Campania, Puglia and Veneto, is a crystallized political plan. The Italian regions increasingly appear as consolidated factions, real fiefdoms where the same political center has taken control and firmly maintains it.
In the Veneto the centre-right has dominated unchallenged for over twenty years, with a stability, good governance and a depth of roots that seem practically unshakable. Similar situation, but for the centre-left, in Emilia-Romagna, in Tuscany (the latter region has always been governed by the left) and now, it must be said, in Puglia, where the left has governed since 2005.
However, the tendency towards “electoral feudalism” seems to have reached a higher level, looking at the entire electoral round which involved seven regions in 2025 (Marche, Valle d’Aosta, Calabria, Tuscany, Veneto, Campania and Puglia), the picture shows a repetitive pattern: where present, all the outgoing governors were reconfirmed, alternatively the reference coalition still triumphed.
