Career
From 2001 to 2010 Conte was also secretary of the party for the Province of Padua. Re-elected for a third term to the Council in 2010, he was appointed regional minister of Environment in Zaia I Government. In 2015 Conte left Liga Veneta in order to join the Tosi List for Veneto and, in the following regional election, was re-elected to the Regional Council for the new party.