The Lega Nord (North League, LN), whose complete name is Lega Nord for the Independence of Padania (Lega Nord per l'Indipendenza della Padania), is an Italian political party founded in 1991 as a federation of several regional parties of Northern and Central Italy, most of which had arisen and expanded their share of the electorate in the 1980s.

Its political program advocates the transformation of Italy into a federal State, fiscal federalism and greater regional autonomy, especially for the Northern regions, which they call Padania; at times it has advocated secession. Prior to the party's adoption of the term, Padania was a relatively obscure geographers' designation for the Padan-Venetian Plain.

The founding parties of Lega Nord were Lega Lombarda, Liga Veneta, Piemònt Autonomista, Union Ligure, Lega Emiliano-Romagnola, Alleanza Toscana, plus the newly formed regional/provincial parties in Friuli, Province of Trieste, Province of Trento, Province of Bolzano, Aosta Valley, Marche and Umbria.

The League is led by Umberto Bossi.