1948 Italian Senate election in Lombardy

1948 Italian Senate election in Lombardy

April 18, 1948 1953 →
All 31 Lombard seats to the Italian Senate
First party Second party   Leader Alcide De Gasperi Palmiro Togliatti Party DC Popular Democratic Front Seats won 18 10 Popular vote 1,854,032 1,164,769 Percentage 53.8% 33.8%

Lombardy elected its first delegation to the Italian Senate on April 18, 1948. This election was a part of national Italian general election of 1948 even if, according to the newly established Italian Constitution, every senatorial challenge in each Region is a single and independent race.

The election was won by the centrist Christian Democracy, as it happened at national level. Pavia and Mantua were the sole provinces to oppose this result, giving a plurality to the Social-Communist alliance.

Background

Alcide De Gasperi's Christian Democracy had obtained very good results during quite all municipal elections in Lombardy in 1946. However, their Soviet-aligned opponents looked at this region as one of their possible zones of success, considering the local strength of the Socialist Party before the Fascist era.

Even if the Front obtained some seats in the

Sources: Italian Ministry of the Interior

Constituencies

• Senators with a direct mandate have bold percentages. Please remember that the
  FPTP race: so candidates winning with a simple plurality
  could have (and usually had) a candidate (always a Christian democrat) with more votes in their constituency.

• Amilcare Locatelli for Rho (36.2%) replaced Pietro Torelli in 1948. Reason: death.
• Edoardo Origlia for Milan 2 (54.5%) replaced Antonio Bareggi in 1950. Reason: death.
• Lodi (47.7%) replaced Carlo Perini in 1952. Reason: death
  .