Italian Senate election in Lombardy, 1996

Italian Senate election in Lombardy, 1996

1994 ←
April 21, 1996
→ 2001

All 47 Lombard seats in the Italian Senate
  Majority party Minority party
 
Leader Romano Prodi Silvio Berlusconi
Party The Daisy FI
Alliance The Olive Tree Pole of Freedoms
Last election 19 seats, 34.2% 27 seats, 57.2%
Seats won 19 16
Seat change -7 +6
Popular vote 1,924,113 2,557,622
Percentage 33.7% 44.8%
Swing -0.5% -12.4%

Majority before election

Pole of Freedoms

New Plurality

The Olive Tree

Lombardy renewed its delegation to the Italian Senate on April 21, 1996. This election was a part of national Italian general election of 1996 even if, according to the Italian Constitution, every senatorial challenge in each Region is a single and independent race.

The election was won by the centre-left coalition called The Olive Tree.

Contents

Electoral system

The intricate electoral system introduced in 1993, called Mattarella Law, provided 75% of the seats in the Senate as elected by first-past-the-post system, whereas the remaining 25% was assigned by a special proportional method that actually assigned the remaining seats to minority parties.

Results

e • d 
Coalitions votes votes (%) seats Parties seats change
The Olive Tree 1,928,868 34.2 19 Democratic Party of the Left 12 +
Italian People's Party 4 +
Federation of the Greens 2 =
Italian Renewal 1 =
Pole for Freedoms 1,853,453 32.8 16 Forza Italia 10 -
National Alliance 5 -
Federalist Party 1 +
Northern League 1,376,124 24.4 11 Northern League 11
Alliance of Progressives 50,235 0.9 1 Communist Refoundation Party 1
Others 437,745 7.7 - Others - -
Total coalitions 5,646,425 100.0 47 Total parties 47 =

Sources: Ministry of the Interior, Italian Senate

Constituencies

e • d 
Constituency Winner Alliance Party Votes % Losers
1 Milan Central Carlo Scognamiglio Forza Italia 47.9% G. Bianchini (Olive) 35.2%
L. Rossi (League) 10.9%
2 Milan East Saverio Vertone Forza Italia 46.4% Vera Squarcialupi (Olive) 36.2%
G. Galimberti (League) 11.5%
3 Milan West Riccardo De Corato National Alliance 46.5% Felice Besostri (Olive) 35.4%
P. Arpesani (League) 11.7%
4 Milan South Roberto Lasagna Forza Italia 41.5% Antonio Duva (Olive) 38.6%
M. Bedoni (League) 13.1%
5 Milan North Leopoldo Elia Italian People's Party 43.6% L. Strik (Pannella) 23.1%
M. Frigerio (League) 16.4%
6 Sesto San Giovanni Antonio Pizzinato Democratic Party of the Left 42.7% Sergio Travaglia (Pole) 38.1%
C. Pedrazzini (League) 12.9%
7 Lodi Gianni Piatti Democratic Party of the Left 39.7% Michele Bucci (Pole) 34.8%
G. Finaguerra (League) 17.2%
8 Rozzano Carlo Smuraglia Democratic Party of the Left 40.8% Antonino Caruso (Pole) 40.1%
G. Lombardi (League) 12.7%
9 Abbiategrasso Francesco Servello National Alliance 34.4% F. Bonetti (Olive) 33.0%
G. Gadda (League) 25.5%
10 Rho Fiorello Cortiana Federation of the Greens 36.5% F. Tofoni (Pole) 34.9%
G. Carnovali (League) 23.6%
11 Bollate Ornella Piloni Democratic Party of the Left 38.1% P. Balzano (Pole) 34.0%
E. Busnelli (League) 21.5%
12 Cinisello Balsamo Patrizia Toia Italian People's Party 43.8% Enrico Rizzi (Pole) 35.0%
G. Tronconi (League) 15.2%
13 Seregno Ettore Rotelli Forza Italia 36.3% M. Pulcini (Olive) 29.8%
C. Monti (League) 27.6%
14 Monza Alfredo Mantica National Alliance 38.1% Anna Maria Bernasconi (Olive) 37.0%
E. Merlo (League) 19.3%
15 Melzo Loris Maconi Democratic Party of the Left 41.6% M. Staglieno (Pole) 33.4%
S. Motta (League) 19.4%
16 Cologno Monzese Natale Ripamonti Federation of the Greens 40.2% Enrico Pianetta (Pole) 39.0%
C. Marchini (League) 13.8%
17 Varese Piero Pellicini National Alliance 33.1% M. Astuti (Olive) 29.9%
Giuseppe Leoni (League) 29.7%
18 Gallarate Luigi Peruzzotti Northern League 34.6% G. Martinoli (Olive) 29.9%
G. Margutti (Pole) 29.2%
19 Busto Arsizio Antonio Tomassini Forza Italia 32.8% Francesco Speroni (League) 32.0%
M. Maggioni (Olive) 29.2%
20 Como Gianfranco Miglio Federalist Party 35.2% G. Peruzzo (Olive) 29.3%
G. Ostinelli (League) 27.2%
21 Cantù Elia Manara Northern League 32.3% G. Manfredi (Pole) 31.3%
P. Giovanni (Olive) 29.5%
22 Brescia Alessandro Pardini Democratic Party of the Left 38.9% R. Conti (Pole) 30.6%
G. Giudici (League) 24.7%
23 Lumezzane Francesco Tabladini Northern League 41.8% A. Gregorelli (Olive) 30.9%
L. Becchetti (Pole) 25.4%
24 Desenzano del Garda Giovanni Bruni Italian Renewal 33.1% Massimo Wilde (League) 31.0%
I. Formentini (Pole) 28.4%
25 Chiari Francesco Tirelli Northern League 32.9% B. Mazzotti (Olive) 32.3%
G.Gei (Pole) 27.8%
26 Suzzara Piergiorgio Bergonzi Communist Refoundation Party 34.3% F. Marenghi (Pole) 30.5%
I. Maffini (League) 24.7%
27 Mantova Roberto Borroni Democratic Party of the Left 43.9% R. Freddi (Pole) 28.3%
A. Cattaneo (League) 20.2%
28 Cremona Angelo Rescaglio Italian People's Party 38.7% G. Galli (Pole) 31.9%
B. Bruttomesso (League) 21.8%
29 Pavia Tullio Montagna Democratic Party of the Left 37.0% G. Beccaria (Pole) 34.6%
L. Verderio (League) 19.2%
30 Vigevano Domenico Contestabile Forza Italia 37.8% C. Broli (Olive) 34.6%
G. Desigis (League) 19.3%
31 Bergamo Giovanni Zilio Italian People's Party 32.3% Sergio Rossi (League) 31.9%
L. Caputo (Pole) 29.1%
32 Albino Vito Gnutti Northern League 44.8% G. Giupponi (Olive) 26.7%
G. Bettera (Pole) 22.3%
33 Treviglio Massimo Dolazza Northern League 35.5% L. Gelpi (Olive) 29.5%
M. Signorelli (Pole) 27.7%
34 Sondrio Fiorello Provera Northern League 36.8% M. Gallo (Pole) 28.6%
R. Pedrini (Olive) 27.0%
35 Lecco Roberto Castelli Northern League 33.3% V. Addis (Olive) 32.9%
P. Fiocchi (Pole) 27.1%

Additional senators

  1. Antonino Caruso (National Alliance, 40.1%)
  2. Enrico Pianetta (Forza Italia, 39.0%)
  3. Sergio Travaglia (Forza Italia, 38.1%)
  4. Enrico Rizzi (Forza Italia, 35.0%)
  5. Michele Bucci (Forza Italia, 34.8%)
  1. Antonio Duva (Democratic Party of the Left, 38.6%)
  2. Anna Maria Bernasconi (Democratic Party of the Left, 37.0%)
  3. Vera Squarcialupi (Democratic Party of the Left, 36.2%)
  4. Felice Besostri (Democratic Party of the Left, 35.4%)
  1. Francesco Speroni (Northern League, 32.0%)[1]
  2. Sergio Rossi (Northern League, 31.9%)
  3. Massimo Wilde (Northern League, 31.0%)

Notes

  1. ^ He resigned in 1999 when he became MEP. He was then substituted by Giuseppe Leoni.

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