The party was founded in 1987 as the
Movement for Tuscany (
Movimento per la Toscana, MpT) and its first leader was
Mario Forconi. In 1988, under the leadership of
Tommaso Fragassi, the party changed name to
Tuscan Alliance (
Alleanza Toscana, AT). AT participated to the
1989 European Parliament election within the coalition
Lega Lombarda – Alleanza Nord. In 1989–1990 it took part in the process of federating the northern regionalist parties, ahead of the
1990 regional elections. In February 1991 the AT was merged into
Lega Nord (LN), taking the current name, and since then it has been the regional section of that party in Tuscany. while his father Tommaso resigned from secretary because he rejected the alliance between the LN and the centre-right
Pole of Freedoms. In 1995, when the alliance was dissolved, Riccardo Fragassi left the party in opposition to that break-up and formed the
Tuscan Federalist Alliance (AFT) instead. He would return into the fold ten years later. The leader of the AFT were Riccardo Fragassi (secretary) and
Renzo Del Carrìa (president), a former president of the LNT (1992–1994). Riccardo Fragassi eventually re-joined the LNT and spoke at the Lega Nord's federal congress June–July 2012. The party's new secretary,
Simone Gnaga, was elected to the Chamber in the
1996 general election. A right-winger, he would too leave in 1998 in order to join
National Alliance. Between 1998 and 2006 the party was led by
Vincenzo Soldati, a member of the party's
libertarian wing. The party was then led by commissioner
Luca Rodolfo Paolini, national secretary of
Lega Nord Marche, from 2006 to 2008, when
Claudio Morganti was elected national secretary. In the
2008 general election the party elected a deputy, Paolini himself, after almost ten years of no representation in the
Italian Parliament. In the
2009 European Parliament election Morganti was elected
MEP. In the
2010 regional election the party won 6.5% of the vote, its best result so far, and entered the Regional Council for the first time, with four councillors. Despite these electoral results, Morganti's leadership was openly contested by many party members. In April 2011
Dario Locci, a regional councillor, left in protest. In September 2011 Morganti resigned from secretary and was replaced by commissioner
Gianni Fava. The move was not enough for Locci, who made no return, and another group of disgruntled members, including regional councillor
Marina Staccioli, who left the party to form
Tuscan Identity in December. The splinter party was led by president
Giovanni Iadicicco and three coordinators (
Andrea Asciutti,
Federico Meanti and Marina Staccioli); Staccioli would later defect to the
Brothers of Italy). In October 2012 the two remaining regional councillors of the party,
Antonio Gambetta Vianna and
Gian Luca Lazzeri, responded to the emphasis posed by the new federal secretary
Roberto Maroni on the
North and the establishment of a
Padanian euroregion by changing the denomination of their group from "Lega Nord Toscana" to "
More Tuscany". Vianna and Lazzeri were soon expelled from the party, which was left without regional councillors. In April 2013 also Morganti was expelled from the party. These internal clashes resulted in a dismal result in the
2013 general election, during which the LNT garnered a mere 0.7% of the vote. In April 2013, after a long transition under the supervision of Fava, a new national congress was held and
Manuel Vescovi was elected new national secretary. In the
2015 regional election the LNT obtained its best result so far in a regionwide election by jumping from 6.5% of 2010 to 16.2%, while its candidate for president, anti-
Euro economist
Claudio Borghi, who was endorsed also by
Brothers of Italy, came second with 20.0% of the vote. In the
2016 local elections the party won
Cascina (
Pisa), its first large municipality in the region:
Susanna Ceccardi obtained 28.4% in the first round and 50.3% in the run-off, while the party got 21.3%. In the
2018 general election the party won 17.4% of the vote in Tuscany. In the subsequent
2018 local elections the party ran well in several races, especially in
Pisa and
Massa where two of its members,
Michele Conti and
Francesco Persiani. respectively, were elected mayors. In the
2019 European Parliament election the party reached a record 31.5% of the vote, while in the
2020 regional election, with Ceccardi as the centre-right candidate for president, it stopped at 21.8% (Ceccardi won 40.5%). Following the formation of
Lega per Salvini Premier and the 2019 federal congress of the LN, after which the latter became practically inactive, in February 2020 the LNT was re-established as
Lega Toscana per Salvini Premier in order to become the regional section of the new party. The founding members of the new LR were Ceccardi,
Tiziana Nisini,
Elisa Montemagni,
Jacopo Alberti and
Elena Vizzotto. After that, the party was successively led by
Mario Lolini and, since 2023,
Luca Baroncini. In the 2023 regional congress, Baroncini was elected secretary by obtaining around 60% of the vote, while his opponent
Luca Tacchi won around 35%. ==Popular support==