1963 Italian Senate election in Lombardy

1963 Italian Senate election in Lombardy

← 1958 April 28, 1963 1968 →
All 45 Lombard seats to the Italian Senate
Majority party Minority party Third party   Leader Aldo Moro Palmiro Togliatti Pietro Nenni Party DC PCI PSI Last election 44.8%, 16 seats 18.5%, 6 seats 18.5%, 7 seats Seats won 19 10 8 Seat change 3 4 1 Popular vote 1,757,450 910,939 780,648 Percentage 39.9% 20.7% 17.7% Swing 4.9% 2.2% 0.8%
Old local plurality before election DC New local plurality DC

Lombardy elected its forth delegation to the Italian Senate on April 28, 1963. This election was a part of national Italian general election of 1963 even if, according to the Italian Constitution, every senatorial challenge in each Region is a single and independent race.

Lombardy obtained twelve more seats to the Senate, following a

The election was won by the centrist Christian Democracy, as it happened at national level. Eight Lombard provinces gave a majority or at least a plurality to the winning party, while the agricultural Province of Pavia preferred the Italian Communist Party.

Background

The constitutional reform of 1963 created dozens of new senatorial seats to improve the representation of minor parties, but the proportional voting system did not impose changes into the total number of local constituencies. The result was that Christian Democracy (DC) elected the major part of its nominees even if it was weakened by Amintore Fanfani's program to create a centre-left government with the Italian Socialist Party (PSI). If the DC paid its toll to the centre-right Italian Liberal Party, which obtained great results in the bourgeois centre of Milan, the PSI lost votes to the Italian Communist Party, and later it suffered a crisis losing his leftist wing, including senator Giuseppe Roda, which created the Soviet-aligned Italian Socialist Party of Proletarian Unity.

Electoral system

The electoral system for the Senate was a strange hybrid which established a form of

Results

Party	votes	votes (%)	seats	swing
Christian Democracy	1,757,450	39.9	19	3
Italian Communist Party	910,939	20.7	10	4
Italian Socialist Party	780,648	17.7	8	1
Italian Liberal Party	400,831	9.1	4	3
Italian Democratic Socialist Party	300,841	6.8	3	1
Italian Social Movement	181,387	4.1	1	=
Others	75,939	1.7	-	=
Total parties	4,408,035	100.0	45	12

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 (usually a Christian democrat) with more votes in their constituency.

• Giovanni Lombardi for Cremona (38.1%) replaced Pietro Amigoni in 1963. Reason: death.
• Leonello Zenti for Mantua (36.2%) replaced Giordano Dell'Amore in 1963. Reason: business incompatibility.
• recount
  .
• Giovanni Celasco for Voghera (32.5%) replaced Daniele Turani in 1964. Reason: death.
• Dante Bettoni for Ostiglia (29.7%) replaced Enrico Roselli in 1964. Reason: death.
• Pietro Ferreri for Pavia (28.6%) replaced Noè Pajetta in 1966. Reason: death.
• Antonio Coppi for Milan 5 (13.0%) replaced Luigi Grassi in 1967. Reason: resignation.

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