1983 Italian general election
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All 630 seats in the Chamber of Deputies 316 seats needed for a majority | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Turnout | 88.01% ( 2.61pp) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
All 315 seats in the Senate of the Republic 162[a] seats needed for a majority | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Turnout | 88.83% ( 1.86pp) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
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The 1983 Italian general election was held in Italy on 26 June 1983.[1] The Pentapartito formula, the governative alliance between five centrist parties, caused unexpected problems to Christian Democracy. The alliance was fixed and universal, extended both to the national government and to the local administrations. Considering that the election result did no longer depend on the strength of the DC, but the strength of the entire Pentapartito, centrist electors began to look at the Christian Democratic vote as not necessary to prevent a Communist success. Moreover, voting for one of the four minor parties of the alliance was seen as a form of moderate protest against the government without giving advantages to the PCI. Other minor effects of this election were a reduction of the referendarian Radical Party and the appearance of some regional forces.
Electoral system
The pure
For the Senate, 237 single-seat constituencies were established, even if the assembly had risen to 315 members. The candidates needed a landslide victory of two thirds of votes to be elected, a goal which could be reached only by the German minorities in South Tirol. All remained votes and seats were grouped in party lists and regional constituencies, where a D'Hondt method was used: inside the lists, candidates with the best percentages were elected.
Historical background
On 2 August 1980, a bomb killed 85 people and wounded more than 200 in
In 1981 at a meeting of the Congress of the Italian Socialist Party (PSI), was officially launched a centrist political alliance called Pentapartito, when the Christian Democrat Arnaldo Forlani and Socialist Secretary Bettino Craxi signed an agreement with the "blessing" of Giulio Andreotti. Because the agreement was signed in a trailer, it was called the "pact of the camper." The pact was also called "CAF" for the initials of the signers, Craxi-Andreotti-Forlani. With this agreement, the DC party recognized the equal dignity of the so-called "secular parties" of the majority (i.e., the Socialists, Social Democrats, Liberals and Republicans) and also guaranteed an alternation of government (in fact, Giovanni Spadolini of the PRI and Bettino Craxi of the PSI became the first non-Christian Democrats to hold the Presidency of the Council). With the birth of the Pentapartito, the possibility of the growth of the majority toward the Italian Communist Party (PCI) was finally dismissed. The Christian Democrats remained the leaders of the coalition, and managed several times to prevent representatives of the secular parties from becoming President of the Councill.
Parties and leaders
Party | Ideology | Leader | Seats in 1979 | |||
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C | S | Total | ||||
Christian Democracy (DC) | Christian democracy | Ciriaco De Mita | 262
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138
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400
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Italian Communist Party (PCI) | Eurocommunism | Enrico Berlinguer | 201
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109
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310
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Italian Socialist Party (PSI) | Social democracy | Bettino Craxi | 62
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32
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94
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Italian Social Movement (MSI) | Neo-fascism | Giorgio Almirante | 30
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13
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43
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Italian Democratic Socialist Party (PSDI) | Social democracy | Pietro Longo | 20
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9
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29
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Italian Republican Party (PRI) | Liberalism | Giovanni Spadolini | 16
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6
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22
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Radical Party (PR) | Liberalism | Marco Pannella | 18
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2
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20
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Italian Liberal Party (PLI) | Liberalism | Valerio Zanone | 9
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2
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11
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Proletarian Democracy (DP) | Trotskyism | Mario Capanna | 0
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0
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0
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Results
The DC respected the pact of an alternance of leadership between the parties of the alliance and accepted the
Chamber of Deputies
Party | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | |
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Christian Democracy | 12,153,081 | 32.93 | 225 | −37 | |
Italian Communist Party | 11,032,318 | 29.89 | 198 | −3 | |
Italian Socialist Party | 4,223,362 | 11.44 | 73 | +11 | |
Italian Social Movement | 2,511,487 | 6.81 | 42 | +12 | |
Italian Republican Party | 1,874,512 | 5.08 | 29 | +13 | |
Italian Democratic Socialist Party | 1,508,234 | 4.09 | 23 | +3 | |
Italian Liberal Party | 1,066,980 | 2.89 | 16 | +7 | |
Radical Party | 809,810 | 2.19 | 11 | −7 | |
Proletarian Democracy | 542,039 | 1.47 | 7 | +7 | |
Pensioners' National Party | 503,461 | 1.36 | 0 | New | |
South Tyrolean People's Party | 184,940 | 0.50 | 3 | −1 | |
Liga Veneta | 125,311 | 0.34 | 1 | New | |
List for Trieste | 92,101 | 0.25 | 0 | −1 | |
Sardinian Action Party | 91,923 | 0.25 | 1 | +1 | |
Aosta Valley (UV–UVP–DP) | 28,086 | 0.08 | 1 | 0 | |
Friuli Movement | 26,190 | 0.07 | 0 | 0 | |
Trentino Tyrolean People's Party | 18,656 | 0.05 | 0 | New | |
Pensioners' Defence Union | 15,182 | 0.04 | 0 | New | |
Monarchist National Party | 13,573 | 0.04 | 0 | New | |
South Tyrol Party | 12,270 | 0.03 | 0 | New | |
Union of Pensioners and Retirees of Italy | 9,944 | 0.03 | 0 | New | |
Slovene Union | 9,434 | 0.03 | 0 | New | |
European Workers' Party | 8,074 | 0.02 | 0 | 0 | |
Struggle List | 6,863 | 0.02 | 0 | New | |
Christian Social Action Party | 6,354 | 0.02 | 0 | 0 | |
Living Liberation | 5,257 | 0.01 | 0 | New | |
Sicilian National Front | 5,228 | 0.01 | 0 | 0 | |
National Party of Tenants | 4,768 | 0.01 | 0 | New | |
Sardinian Ecological Movement | 4,263 | 0.01 | 0 | New | |
PLI–PRI–PSDI | 4,239 | 0.01 | 0 | New | |
Movement for the Independence of Trieste | 2,913 | 0.01 | 0 | New | |
New Left | 1,853 | 0.01 | 0 | New | |
Justice and Freedom | 1,692 | 0.00 | 0 | New | |
Popular Christian Movement | 1,607 | 0.00 | 0 | 0 | |
Total | 36,906,005 | 100.00 | 630 | 0 | |
Valid votes | 36,906,005 | 94.18 | |||
Invalid/blank votes | 2,282,177 | 5.82 | |||
Total votes | 39,188,182 | 100.00 | |||
Registered voters/turnout | 44,526,357 | 88.01 | |||
Source: Ministry of the Interior |
Results by constituency
Constituency | Total seats |
Seats won | |||||||||
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DC | PCI | PSI | MSI | PRI | PSDI | PLI | PR | DP | Others | ||
Turin | 36 | 9 | 12 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | |
Cuneo | 14 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||
Genoa | 20 | 6 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||
Milan | 51 | 14 | 16 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | |
Como | 20 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
Brescia | 23 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
Mantua | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | |||||||
Trentino | 8 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||||||
Verona | 30 | 14 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Venice | 16 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||
Udine | 14 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||
Bologna | 26 | 5 | 13 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
Parma | 20 | 5 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||
Florence | 16 | 4 | 9 | 2 | 1 | ||||||
Pisa | 15 | 4 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||||
Siena | 9 | 3 | 5 | 1 | |||||||
Ancona | 17 | 6 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||||
Perugia | 10 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 1 | ||||||
Rome | 53 | 17 | 16 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | |
L'Aquila | 14 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | ||||||
Campobasso | 4 | 3 | 1 | ||||||||
Naples | 42 | 14 | 11 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
Benevento | 18 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | |||||
Bari | 25 | 9 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||
Lecce | 20 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||||
Potenza | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | |||||||
Catanzaro | 23 | 9 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||||
Catania | 27 | 11 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||
Palermo | 25 | 11 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||
Cagliari | 17 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||
Aosta Valley | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
Trieste | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
Total | 630 | 225 | 198 | 73 | 42 | 29 | 23 | 16 | 11 | 7 | 6 |
Senate of the Republic
Party | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | |
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Christian Democracy | 10,077,204 | 32.41 | 120 | −18 | |
Italian Communist Party | 9,577,071 | 30.81 | 107 | −2 | |
Italian Socialist Party | 3,539,593 | 11.39 | 38 | +6 | |
Italian Social Movement | 2,283,524 | 7.35 | 18 | +5 | |
Italian Republican Party | 1,452,279 | 4.67 | 10 | +4 | |
Italian Democratic Socialist Party | 1,184,936 | 3.81 | 8 | −1 | |
Italian Liberal Party | 834,771 | 2.69 | 6 | +4 | |
Radical Party | 548,229 | 1.76 | 1 | −1 | |
Pensioners' National Party | 370,756 | 1.19 | 0 | New | |
Proletarian Democracy | 327,750 | 1.05 | 0 | New | |
South Tyrolean People's Party | 157,444 | 0.51 | 3 | 0 | |
PLI–PRI | 127,504 | 0.41 | 1 | 0 | |
PLI–PRI–PSDI | 100,218 | 0.32 | 0 | 0 | |
Liga Veneta | 91,171 | 0.29 | 1 | New | |
List for Trieste | 85,542 | 0.28 | 0 | 0 | |
Sardinian Action Party | 76,797 | 0.25 | 1 | +1 | |
PLI–PSDI | 72,298 | 0.23 | 0 | 0 | |
For the Renewal of Molise | 33,525 | 0.11 | 0 | New | |
List for Trieste–PPPIU | 27,940 | 0.09 | 0 | 0 | |
Aosta Valley (UV–UVP–DP) | 26,547 | 0.09 | 1 | 0 | |
Friuli Movement | 23,847 | 0.08 | 0 | 0 | |
Trentino Tyrolean People's Party | 17,354 | 0.06 | 0 | New | |
Christian Social Action Party | 12,588 | 0.04 | 0 | New | |
Union of Pensioners and Retirees of Italy | 10,895 | 0.04 | 0 | New | |
Slovene Union | 8,904 | 0.03 | 0 | New | |
Sicilian National Front | 8,243 | 0.03 | 0 | New | |
Struggle Front | 6,403 | 0.02 | 0 | New | |
List for Trieste–UDP | 5,678 | 0.02 | 0 | 0 | |
Total | 31,089,011 | 100.00 | 315 | 0 | |
Valid votes | 31,089,011 | 93.07 | |||
Invalid/blank votes | 2,313,128 | 6.93 | |||
Total votes | 33,402,139 | 100.00 | |||
Registered voters/turnout | 37,603,817 | 88.83 | |||
Source: Ministry of the Interior |
Results by constituency
Constituency | Total seats |
Seats won | ||||||||
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DC | PCI | PSI | MSI | PRI | PSDI | PLI | PR | Others | ||
Piedmont | 24 | 7 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | ||
Aosta Valley | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
Lombardy | 48 | 17 | 15 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | |
Trentino-Alto Adige | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | ||||||
Veneto | 23 | 12 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
Friuli-Venezia Giulia | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | ||||||
Liguria | 10 | 4 | 5 | 1 | ||||||
Emilia-Romagna | 21 | 6 | 12 | 2 | 1 | |||||
Tuscany | 19 | 6 | 10 | 2 | 1 | |||||
Umbria | 7 | 2 | 4 | 1 | ||||||
Marche | 8 | 3 | 4 | 1 | ||||||
Lazio | 27 | 9 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
Abruzzo | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | ||||||
Molise | 2 | 2 | ||||||||
Campania | 29 | 11 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 1 | |||
Apulia | 20 | 8 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 1 | ||||
Basilicata | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | ||||||
Calabria | 11 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 1 | |||||
Sicily | 26 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
Sardinia | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | |||||
Total | 315 | 120 | 107 | 38 | 18 | 10 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 7 |
References
- ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
- ^ Taking into account the unelected Senators for life, who accounted for 7 seats at the time the election took place