1900 Italian general election
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General elections were held in Italy on 3 June 1900, with a second round of voting on 10 June.[1] The "ministerial" left-wing bloc remained the largest in Parliament, winning 296 of the 508 seats.[2]
Background
Upon the fall of
He took stern measures against the revolutionary elements in southern Italy. The Public Safety Bill for the reform of the police laws, taken over by him from the Rudinì cabinet, and eventually promulgated by royal decree. The law made strikes by state employees illegal; gave the executive wider powers to ban public meetings and dissolve subversive organisations; revived the penalties of banishment and preventive arrest for political offences; and tightened control of the press by making authors responsible for their articles and declaring incitement to violence a crime.
Electoral system
The election was held using 508 single-member constituencies. However, prior to the election the electoral law was amended so that candidates needed only an absolute majority of votes to win their constituency, abolishing the second requirement of receiving the votes of at least one-sixth of registered voters.[4]
Parties and leaders
Party | Ideology | Leader | |
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Historical Left | Liberalism | Giovanni Giolitti | |
Historical Right | Conservatism | Antonio Starabba di Rudinì
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Italian Socialist Party | Socialism | Filippo Turati | |
Historical Far Left | Radicalism
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Ettore Sacchi | |
Italian Republican Party | Republicanism | Napoleone Colajanni |
Results
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Party | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | |
Historical Left | 663,418 | 52.28 | 296 | −33 | |
Historical Right | 271,698 | 21.41 | 116 | +17 | |
Italian Socialist Party | 164,946 | 13.00 | 33 | +18 | |
Historical Far Left | 89,872 | 7.08 | 34 | −8 | |
Italian Republican Party | 79,127 | 6.24 | 29 | +4 | |
Total | 1,269,061 | 100.00 | 508 | 0 | |
Valid votes | 1,269,061 | 97.03 | |||
Invalid/blank votes | 38,888 | 2.97 | |||
Total votes | 1,307,949 | 100.00 | |||
Registered voters/turnout | 2,248,509 | 58.17 | |||
Source: National Institute of Statistics |
References
- ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
- ^ Nohlen & Stöver, p1083
- ^ a b Seton-Watson, Italy from liberalism to fascism, 1870-1925, p. 193
- ^ Nohlen & Stöver, p1039