Lombard regional election, 1970

Lombard regional election, 1970
June 7, 1970
 → 1975
All 80 seats to the Regional Council of Lombardy
  Majority party Minority party
 
Leader Piero Bassetti Carlo Smuraglia
Party DC PCI
Seats won 36 19
Popular vote 2,138,141 1,210,068
Percentage 40.9% 23.1%
New President

Piero Bassetti
DC

The Lombard regional election of 1970 took place on 7 June 1970. It was the first-ever regional election.

Electoral law

Election was held under proportional representation with provincial constituencies where the largest remainder method with a Droop quota was used. To ensure more proportionality, remained votes and seats were transferred at regional level and calculated at-large.

Results

Christian Democracy was by far the largest party and Christian Democrat Piero Bassetti formed a government with the support of the Italian Socialist Party, the Italian Democratic Socialist Party and the Italian Republican Party. Bassetti was replaced by Cesare Golfari in 1974.

Parties votes  % seats
Christian Democracy 2,138,141 40.9 36
Italian Communist Party 1,210,068 23.1 19
Italian Socialist Party 648,696 12.4 9
Italian Democratic Socialist Party 376,436 7.2 5
Italian Liberal Party 310,324 5.9 4
Italian Social Movement 195,791 3.7 3
Italian Socialist Party of Proletarian Unity 188,585 3.6 2
Italian Republican Party 125,767 2.4 2
Others 34,508 0.6 -
Total 5,710,352 100.0 80

Source: Ministry of the Interior

Seats by province

Parties BG BS CO CR MN MI PV SO VA Total
Christian Democracy 5 (new) 5 (new) 4 (new) 2 (new) 2 (new) 12 (new) 2 (new) 1 (new) 3 (new) 36
Italian Communist Party 1 (new) 2 (new) 1 (new) 1 (new) 2 (new) 9 (new) 2 (new) - 1 (new) 19
Italian Socialist Party 1 (new) 1 (new) 1 (new) - 1 (new) 4 (new) - - 1 (new) 9
Italian Democratic Socialist Party 1 (new) 1 (new) - - - 3 (new) - - - 5
Italian Liberal Party - - 1 (new) - - 3 (new) - - - 4
Italian Social Movement - 1 (new) - - - 2 (new) - - - 3
Italian Socialist Party of Proletarian Unity - 1 (new) - - - 1 (new) - - - 2
Italian Republican Party - - - - - 1 (new) - - 1 (new) 2
Total 8 11 7 3 5 35 4 1 6 80
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