# 2004 Prato provincial election, council lists

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Democrats of the Left won 10 of the 22 seats, with 35.2% of the vote.

> Results are by municipality, from the Interior Ministry's open data file for this election; a municipality split between council colleges is summed. Seats are the councillors the ministry's college candidate file marks as elected, counted by list. The council has 24 seats besides the president, one per college; seats that went to losing candidates for president are not counted, so the lists add up to 22.

Seats: DS 10, FI 4, AN 3, DL.la Margherita 3, PRC 1, and PdCI 1.

| Candidate or party | Votes | Share | Seats | Result |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Democrats of the Left | 43,624 | 35.2% | 10 | Won |
| Forza Italia | 21,258 | 17.2% | 4 | Won |
| National Alliance | 16,834 | 13.6% | 3 | Won |
| DL.la Margherita | 11,967 | 9.7% | 3 | Won |
| Communist Refoundation Party | 8,299 | 6.7% | 1 | Won |
| Party of Italian Communists | 4,414 | 3.6% | 1 | Won |
| Union of the Centre | 3,862 | 3.1% |  |  |
| Italy of Values | 3,003 | 2.4% |  |  |
| Federation of the Greens | 2,990 | 2.4% |  |  |
| Lista Consumatori | 1,877 | 1.5% |  |  |
| Lega Nord | 1,656 | 1.3% |  |  |
| Sdi | 1,602 | 1.3% |  |  |
| Sinistra per Prato | 1,549 | 1.3% |  |  |
| Lista Civica | 701 | 0.6% |  |  |
| A.P. UDEUR | 264 | 0.2% |  |  |

Valid votes: 123,900

## Results by municipality

Democrats of the Left leads in 7 municipalities.

| Name | Leader | Share | Margin | Valid votes |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Cantagallo](https://electionsarchive.com/it/toscana/provincia-di-prato/2004-06-12-general/consiglio/cantagallo.md) | Democrats of the Left | 33.1% | +18.4 | 1,569 |
| [Carmignano](https://electionsarchive.com/it/toscana/provincia-di-prato/2004-06-12-general/consiglio/carmignano.md) | Democrats of the Left | 27.9% | +9.4 | 6,502 |
| [Montemurlo](https://electionsarchive.com/it/toscana/provincia-di-prato/2004-06-12-general/consiglio/montemurlo.md) | Democrats of the Left | 36.1% | +20.3 | 10,189 |
| [Poggio a Caiano](https://electionsarchive.com/it/toscana/provincia-di-prato/2004-06-12-general/consiglio/poggio-a-caiano.md) | Democrats of the Left | 25.3% | +5.3 | 5,015 |
| [Prato](https://electionsarchive.com/it/toscana/provincia-di-prato/2004-06-12-general/consiglio/prato.md) | Democrats of the Left | 36.3% | +18.6 | 91,795 |
| [Vaiano](https://electionsarchive.com/it/toscana/provincia-di-prato/2004-06-12-general/consiglio/vaiano.md) | Democrats of the Left | 35.2% | +19.9 | 5,460 |
| [Vernio](https://electionsarchive.com/it/toscana/provincia-di-prato/2004-06-12-general/consiglio/vernio.md) | Democrats of the Left | 33.7% | +19.1 | 3,370 |

## This race in other years

- [June 7, 2009](https://electionsarchive.com/it/toscana/provincia-di-prato/2009-06-07-general/consiglio.md): Democratic Party, 37.9%
- June 12, 2004: Democrats of the Left, Forza Italia, National Alliance, DL.la Margherita, Communist Refoundation Party, Party of Italian Communists

## Also on the ballot in Provincia di Prato on June 12, 2004

- [2004 Prato provincial election, President](https://electionsarchive.com/it/toscana/provincia-di-prato/2004-06-12-general/presidente.md)

## Sources

- [Eligendo: archivio storico delle elezioni, open data](https://elezionistorico.interno.gov.it/eligendo/opendata.php), Ministero dell'Interno. License: No license stated. Data that Italian public bodies publish without a license are open by default (art. 52 of the Codice dell'amministrazione digitale).

## On the ballot in Prato

- 2004 Prato provincial election, council lists
- [2004 Prato provincial election, President](https://electionsarchive.com/it/toscana/provincia-di-prato/2004-06-12-general/presidente.md)

Also available as HTML at https://electionsarchive.com/it/toscana/provincia-di-prato/2004-06-12-general/consiglio and JSON at https://electionsarchive.com/it/toscana/provincia-di-prato/2004-06-12-general/consiglio.json.