Tra cifre e spazi elettorali. Le elezioni provinciali a Brindisi dal dopoguerra alla seconda Repubblica (1951-2009)

BETWEEN NUMBERS AND ELECTORAL SPACES. The provincial elections in Brindisi from the postwar period to the second Republic (1951-2009). In the light of a historiographical panorama in which the theme of administrative elections is still underdeveloped (especially for the Republican period), the contribution focuses on the analysis of administrative election results in the province of Brindisi from the first democratic elections for the renewal of the provincial council (1951) to the last convocation according to the law March 25, 1993 n. 81, which introduced the direct election of the president of the Province (2009). The objective is to read, in the relationship between the participatory dimension and the quantitative and geographical distribution of preferences, the processes of consensus building and the dynamics of entrenchment of political forces in a decision-making space, that of the provincial body, which was long considered strategic in the control of the territory.