1890 Italian general election

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1890 Italian general election
← 1886 23 November 1890 (first round)
30 November 1890 (second round)		 1892 →
All 508 seats in the Chamber of Deputies
255 seats needed for a majority
  Majority party Minority party Third party
 
Leader Francesco Crispi Antonio Starabba di Rudinì Felice Cavallotti
Party Historical Left Historical Right Historical Far Left
Seats won 401 48 42
Seat change Increase109 Decrease97 Decrease3
Prime Minister
before election

Francesco Crispi
Historical Left

Elected
Prime Minister

Francesco Crispi
Historical Left

General elections were held in Italy on 23 November 1890, with a second round of voting on 30 November.[1] The "ministerial" left-wing bloc emerged as the largest in Parliament, winning 401 of the 508 seats.[2][3] As in 1886, the elections were held using small multi-member constituencies with between two and five seats.[4]

Background

Francesco Crispi was appointed Prime Minister on 29 July 1887. True to his initial progressive leanings he moved ahead with stalled reforms, abolishing the death penalty, revoking anti-strike laws, limiting police powers, reforming the penal code and the administration of justice with the help of his Minister of Justice Giuseppe Zanardelli, reorganising charities and passing public health laws and legislation to protect emigrants that worked abroad. He sought popular support for the state with a programme of orderly development at home and expansion abroad.[5][6]

His desire to make Italy a colonial power led to conflicts with France, which rejected Italian claims to

Paris Exhibition of 1889
.

Crispi and his Treasury Minister

Antonio Di Rudinì in February 1891, who was succeeded by Giovanni Giolitti
in May 1892.

Parties and leaders

Party Ideology Leader
Historical Left Liberalism Francesco Crispi
Historical Right Conservatism
Antonio Starabba di Rudinì
Historical Far Left
Radicalism
 Felice Cavallotti

Results

PartyVotes%Seats+/–
Historical Left401+109
Historical Right48−97
Historical Far Left42−3
Others17New
Total5080
Valid votes1,452,79798.35
Invalid/blank votes24,3761.65
Total votes1,477,173100.00
Registered voters/turnout2,752,65853.66
Source: Nohlen & Stöver

References

  1. ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
  2. ^ Nohlen & Stöver, p1082
  3. ISSN 0032-3195
    .
  4. ^ Nohlen & Stöver, p1030
  5. ^ a b Sarti, Italy: a reference guide from the Renaissance to the present, pp. 43-44
  6. ^ Seton-Watson, Italy from liberalism to fascism, p. 131
  7. ^ Seton-Watson, Italy from liberalism to fascism, pp. 154–56
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