1989 European Parliament election in Italy
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All 81 Italian seats to the European Parliament | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Turnout | 81.07% ( 1.4 pp) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below. |
The 1989 European Parliament election in Italy was held on 18 June 1989.
The election was paired with a non-binding referendum about the devolution of powers to the European Economic Community, which passed with overwhelming support from voters.
Electoral system
The pure
largest remainder method with Hare quota. All seats gained by each party were automatically distributed to their local open lists
and their most voted candidates.
Results
For more than 35 years, Italian Communists had thought that their final victory was no more than a matter of time. However, the
Green Lists and, in Northern Italy, the Lombard League
.
The government of Ciriaco De Mita did not survive to this vote: declining Italian Republican Party fired its leader Giovanni Spadolini, and the new secretary Giorgio La Malfa retired his support to the old PM. The Christian Democracy so chose a very expert new PM: Giulio Andreotti.
National party | EP group | Main candidate | Votes | % | +/– | Seats | +/– | ||
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Christian Democracy (DC) | EPP
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Giovanni Goria | 11,451,053 | 32.90 | 0.06 | 26 | 0 | ||
Italian Communist Party (PCI) | EUL | Achille Occhetto | 9,598,369 | 27.58 | 5.75 | 22 | 5 | ||
Italian Socialist Party (PSI) | SOC
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Bettino Craxi | 5,151,929 | 14.80 | 3.59 | 12 | 3 | ||
Italian Social Movement (MSI) | NI | Gianfranco Fini | 1,918,650 | 5.51 | 0.96 | 4 | 1 | ||
Liberals – Republicans – Federalists (PLI–PRI–FED) | LDR / NI
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Jas Gawronski | 1,532,388 | 4.40 | 1.69 | 4 | 1 | ||
Green List (LV) | Green | Gianfranco Amendola | 1,317,119 | 3.78 | New | 3 | New | ||
Italian Democratic Socialist Party (PSDI) | SOC
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Antonio Cariglia | 945,383 | 2.72 | 0.77 | 2 | 1 | ||
Rainbow Greens (VA) | Green | Edo Ronchi | 830,980 | 2.39 | New | 2 | New | ||
Lombard League – Northern Alliance (LL-AN) | RBW
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Umberto Bossi | 636,242 | 1.83 | 1.36 | 2 | 2 | ||
Proletarian Democracy (DP) | Green | Eugenio Melandri | 449,639 | 1.29 | 0.15 | 1 | 0 | ||
Antiprohibitionist List (LA) | Green | Marco Taradash | 430,150 | 1.24 | 2.43 | 1 | 2 | ||
Federalism () | RBW
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Mario Melis | 207,739 | 0.60 | 0.05 | 1 | 0 | ||
South Tyrolean People's Party (SVP) | EPP
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Joachim Dalsass | 172,383 | 0.50 | 0.06 | 1 | 0 | ||
Pensioners' Party (PP) | None | 162,293 | 0.47 | New | 0 | New | |||
Valid votes | 34.804.317 | 92.63 | |||||||
Blank and invalid votes | 2,768,442 | 7.37 | |||||||
Totals | 37,572,759 | 100.00 | — | 81 | 0 | ||||
Electorate (eligible voters) and voter turnout | 46,346,961 | 81.07 | 1.40 | ||||||
Source: Ministry of the Interior |
See also
References