Regional councillors are selected from party lists at the constituency level, with an electoral threshold at 3%.

An additional seat is reserved to the President-elect, who is the candidate winning a plurality of votes.

[5] The centre-right coalition picked former President Stefano Caldoro, a member of Forza Italia (FI), as its candidate, after hypotheses of a League's candidate or Mara Carfagna (FI) were abandoned.

[6][7] The Five Star Movement (M5S) discarded the idea of a coalition with the centre-left, and proposed its own candidate Valeria Ciarambino.

[6] Previously, the M5S had proposed the incumbent Minister of Environment Sergio Costa as its candidate.