centre-right candidate Poalo Truzzu on Tuesday conceded defeat in the Sardinia governor's race. Centre-left candidate Alessandra Todde appears to have an unassailable lead with just a handful of polling stations still to report in.

Cagliari mayor TruzzU who is 0.3% behind at 45% to 45.3%, with 22 of 1844 stationsstill to be counted.    "We really lost by a hair, about two thousand votes out of 750thousand Sardinians who went to vote"