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=== Politics === | === Politics === | ||
[[File:Cospedal._Mensaje_de_Navidad_2013_(11647905203)_(cropped).jpg|thumb|left|200px|Loriana Governale, the 57th and current-governor of Lombardia.]] | |||
Lombardia is a [[Social Democracy Party (Cartadania)|SDP]] stronghold. Historically, it was a more contested politically, because the more rural regions of the state voted more conservatively, causing near-parity between SDPs and UCons. In more recent elections, however, the SDP has gained more ground, and Lombardia has been strongly left-leaning in presidential campaigns. Figueroa and Castelusia, as well as their metro areas, tend to vote largely with and for SDP candidates. Counties that area around [[Calónia County, Lombardia|Calónia County]], are sometimes more moderate in various years but tend to vote similarly to Figueroa itself. Other cities like Calisnia, Carina, Marale, and Rimego also tend to fall more left-leaning that other parts of the state. With the exception of Carina, the counties that surround the other three cities are very moderate politically. The sway in politics is controlled largely by the nine largest counties in the state, most of which are around Castelusia or Figueroa (Alcoxa and Mourda counties, located in the Newport, Santiago MSA are the exceptions). | |||
==== | {| class=wikitable | ||
! colspan = 6 | Voter Registration and Party Enrollment of Lombardia | |||
|- | |||
! colspan = 2 | Party | |||
! Total | |||
! Percentage | |||
|- | |||
{{party color|Social Democracy (Cartadania)}} | |||
| [[Social Democracy Party (Cartadania)|SocDem]] | |||
| style="text-align:center;" | 7,906,747 | |||
| style="text-align:center;" | 54.09% | |||
|- | |||
{{party color|United Conservative (Cartadania)}} | |||
| {{nowrap|[[United Conservative Party (Cartadania)|UCon]]}} | |||
| style="text-align:center;" | 4,630,907 | |||
| style="text-align:center;" | 31.68% | |||
|- | |||
{{party color|Independent}} | |||
| Independents, unaffiliated, and other | |||
| style="text-align:center;" | 2,080,107 | |||
| style="text-align:center;" | 14.23% | |||
|- | |||
! colspan = 2 | Total | |||
! style="text-align:center;" | 14,617,761 | |||
! style="text-align:center;" | 100.00% | |||
|} | |||
While UCons usually win more counties, by piling up large margins in the south and west, they are also usually swamped by the more densely populated and heavily SDP Castelusia-Figueroa axis. In 1988, for instance, Garza won 58 counties to Hernandez's thirty-five. While Garza won most of the western and southern counties by margins of 2-to-1 or more, he was almost completely shut out in the larger counties surrounding Castelusia and Figueroa; every large county except Alcoa went for Hernandez. | |||
Lombardia has also been particularly favorable for Progressistas candidates, Cartadania's moderate third party. It has helped elect all four past Progressistas presidents, including Julia Andrade, who was president at the time Lombardia legally became a state. During the 2024 election cycle, Lombardia has been in sway between SDP and Porgressista, but has been leaning more to Progressistas, which has allowed Samaria Kalanie to become the top candidate in Cartadania. | |||
Outside of national politics, the state tends to elect SDP governors as well, but its legislature, the Lombardia General Assembly, tends to have a large UCon influence. Nonetheless, there is no lack of bipartisan agreement within Lombardia's government and things tend to move rather smoothly. | |||
=== Administrative divisions === | === Administrative divisions === | ||