Snap municipal elections were held in Rome on 5 and 19 June 2016, to elect the Mayor of Rome and 48 members of the City Council, as well as the fifteen presidents and more than 400 councillors of the 15 municipi in which the municipality is divided.

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2016 Rome municipal election

← 2013 5 June 2016 (first round) 19 June 2016 (second round) 2021 →
Turnout	57.0% 4.2 pp (first round) 50.1% 6.9 pp (second round)
Candidate Virginia Raggi Roberto Giachetti Party Five Star Movement Democratic Party Alliance Centre-left 1st Round vote 453,806 320,170 Percentage 35.25% 24.87% 2nd Round vote 770,564 376,935 Percentage 67.15% 32.85%
First round results by municipi
Second round results by municipi Red municipi are those with most votes for Giachetti and Yellow those for Raggi.
Mayor before election Francesco Paolo Tronca (Special commissioner) Elected Mayor Virginia Raggi M5S

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The elections were called following the fall of the former Mayor of Rome Ignazio Marino, who was ousted from office after more than half of the members of the City Council resigned in October 2015.^[1]

The first round of voting on 5 June produced no outright winner, resulting in a run-off election on 19 June between Virginia Raggi, the candidate of the Five Star Movement (M5S), and Roberto Giachetti, member of the Democratic Party (PD).^[1] Raggi won the mayoral election with two-thirds of the vote,^[2] and her party alone won a majority in the City Council of Rome with 29 of the 48 seats.^[3]

The results were widely reported as a major breakthrough for the Five Star Movement, which had previously been seen as a protest party rather than a significant political force.^[4][5] At the same round of elections, M5S also won Turin municipal elections.^[4]

On 12 October 2015, the incumbent mayor Ignazio Marino announced his resignation amidst an accusation of expense scandal that had been made by some opposition parties (especially Five Star Movement and the right-wing Brothers of Italy), but on 29 October he retired the resignation. Nevertheless, on 30 October he was ousted from his position after 26 of the 48 members of the City Council resigned. The mayorlater was replaced by a government-appointed commissioner and snap municipal elections were called.^[6]

The voting system is used for all mayoral elections in Italy, in the city with a population higher than 15,000 inhabitants. Under this system voters express a direct election for the mayor or an indirect election voting for the party of the candidate's coalition. If no candidate receives 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.^[9]

The election of the City Council is based on a direct choice for the candidate with a preference vote: the candidate with the majority of the preferences is elected. The number of the seats for each party is determined proportionally.^[9]

This is a list of the parties (and their respective leaders) which participated in the election.

All the presidents were elected on the second round, since none obtained more than 50% of votes on the first round of voting. The president of Municipio X wasn't elected since the municipio was under the administration of a Special Commissioner nominated after the municipal council had been dissolved in 2015 due to mafia association.

Table below shows the results for each municipio with the percentage for each coalition on the second round:

Source: Municipality of Rome - Electoral Service