Italian general election, 1972

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Italy

This article is part of the series:
Politics and government of
Italy



Other countries · Politics Portal
view  talk  edit

The Italian general elections of 1972 were held on 1972-05-07. Voters were 37,049,654 for the Chamber of Deputies and 34,524,108.

Democrazia Cristiana (DC) remained stable with around 38% of the votes. The Communist Party (PCI) increased from 25% of 1968 to c. 27-28%. The Socialist Party (PSI) continued in its decline, reducing to c. 10%. The most important growth was that of the post-fascist Italian Social Movement, who nearly doubled its votes from 4.5 to c. 9%. After the dismaying result (less than 2%, against 4.5% of 1968), the Italian Socialist Party of Proletarian Unity was disbanded.

Contents

[edit] Results

[edit] Chamber of Deputies

Christian Democracy 38.66%
Italian Communist Party 27.15%
Italian Socialist Party 9.61%
Italian Social Movement 8.67%
Italian Democratic Socialist Party 5.14%
Italian Liberal Party 3.88%
Italian Republican Party 2.86%
Italian Socialist Party of Proletarian Unity 1.94%
South Tyrolean People's Party 0.46%
Others 1.63%

[edit] Senate

Christian Democracy 38.08%
Italian Communist Party 28.14%
Italian Socialist Party 10.71%
Italian Social Movement 9.09%
Italian Democratic Socialist Party 5.36%
Italian Liberal Party 4.37%
Italian Republican Party 3.05%
South Tyrolean People's Party 0.34%
Others 0.86%

[edit] External links

Elections in Italy
Kingdom of Italy:
Chamber of Deputies: 1895 | 1897 | 1900 | 1904 | 1909 | 1913 | 1919 | 1921 | 1924* | 1929* | 1934*
Italian Republic:
Parliament: 1948 | 1953 | 1958 | 1963 | 1968 | 1972 | 1976 | 1979 | 1983 | 1987 | 1992 | 1994 | 1996 | 2001 | 2006
President: 1946 | 1947 | 1948 | 1955 | 1962 | 1964 | 1971 | 1978 | 1985 | 1992 | 1999 | 2006
In other languages