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A national general election was held in Italy on May 13, 2001 to elect members of the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate of the Republic. The 14th Parliament of the Italian republic was chosen.
Leader of the right-wing House of Freedoms Silvio Berlusconi won the election, defeating Francesco Rutelli, former Mayor of Rome, and premieral candidate of the leftist Olive Tree coalition, and rising back to power after his first victory, in 1994.
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The intricate electoral system of Italy provided 75% of the seats on the Chamber of Deputies (the Lower House) as elected by first-past-the-post system, whereas the remaining 25% was assigned on a proportional way with a minimum threshold of 4%.
The method used for the Senate was even more complicated: 75% of seats by uninominal method, and 25% by a special proportional method that actually assigned the remaining seats to minority parties.
Formally these were examples of additional member systems.
Inside the Chamber of Deputies, 475 were chosen in single-member districts, as it happened in the United States. The remaining 155 seats were assigned by proportional representation with a national D'Hondt method and a 4% threshold.
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| Coalitions and parties | First past the post | Proportional representation | Total | |||||||
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| Votes | % | Seats | Parties in coalition | |||||||
| Party | Votes | % | Seats | Total | Seats | |||||
| House of Freedoms | 16,915,513 | 45.4 | 282 | Forza Italia | 10,923,431 | 29.4 | 62 | 86 | 368 | |
| National Alliance | 4,463,205 | 12.0 | 24 | |||||||
| Lega Nord | 1,464,301 | 3.9 | - | |||||||
| Whiteflower (CCD–CDU) | 1,194,040 | 3.2 | - | |||||||
| New Italian Socialist Party | 353,269 | 1.0 | - | |||||||
| The Olive Tree | 16,209,944 | 43.5 | 189 | Democrats of the Left | 6,151,154 | 16.6 | 31 | 58 | 247 | |
| Democracy is Freedom – The Daisy | 5,391,827 | 14.5 | 27 | |||||||
| The Sunflower (Greens – SDI) | 805,340 | 2.2 | - | |||||||
| Party of Italian Communists | 620,859 | 1.7 | - | |||||||
| Communist Refoundation Party | - | - | - | 1,868,659 | 5.0 | 11 | 11 | 11 | ||
| South Tyrolese People's Party | 173,735 | 0.5 | 3 | 200,059 | 0.5 | - | - | 3 | ||
| Valdotanian Union | 25,577 | 0.1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | ||
| Italy of Values-List Di Pietro | 1,487,287 | 4.0 | - | 1,443,725 | 3.9 | - | - | - | ||
| European Democracy | 1,310,119 | 3.5 | - | 888,249 | 2.4 | - | - | - | ||
| List Bonino-Radical Party | 457,117 | 1.2 | - | 832,213 | 2.2 | - | - | - | ||
| Liga Fronte Veneto | 173,618 | 0.5 | - | 74,353 | 0.2 | - | - | - | ||
| Social Movement Tricolour Flame | 121,527 | 0.3 | - | 143,963 | 0.4 | - | - | - | ||
| Other | 258,379 | 0.8 | - | 378,482 | 1.1 | - | - | 630 | ||
| Summary of the 13 May 2001 Senate of Italy election resultsedit | ||||||||||
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| Votes | % | Seats | Seats | Seats | ||||||
| House of Freedoms | 14,406,519 | 42.5% | 152 | 24 | 176 | |||||
| Olive Tree +SVP | 13,282,495 | 39.2% | 77 | 51 | 128 | |||||
| South Tyrolese People's Party | 126,177 | 0.4% | 2 | - | 2 | |||||
| Communist Refoundation Party | 1,708,707 | 5.0% | - | 4 | 4 | |||||
| European Democracy | 1,066,908 | 3.2% | - | 2 | 2 | |||||
| Italy of Values-List Di Pietro | 1,140,489 | 3.4% | - | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Lombardian Alliance-Authonomy | 308,559 | 0.9% | - | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Valdotanian Union | 32,429 | 0.1% | 1 | - | 1 | |||||
| List Bonino-Radical Party | 677,725 | 2.0% | - | - | - | |||||
| Fiamma Tricolore | 340,221 | 1.0% | - | - | - | |||||
| Liga Fronte Veneto | 138,134 | 0.4% | - | - | - | |||||
| Other | 624,396 | 1.8% | - | - | - | |||||
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