Italian general election, 1992

Italian general election, 1992

April 5, 1992

All 630 seats in the Italian Chamber of Deputies and 315 (of the 325) seats in the Italian Senate Turnout 87.3%   First party Second party Third party   Leader Arnaldo Forlani Achille Occhetto Bettino Craxi Party Christian Democracy Democratic Party of the Left Socialist Party Leader since 1989 1988 1976 Leader's seat XVIII - Marche XX - Latium III - Milan Last election 234 & 125 seats, 34.3% 149 & 75,[1] inside PCI 94 & 43 seats, 14.3% Seats won 206 (H) 107 (S) 107 (H) 66 (S) 92 (H) 49 (S) Seat change 46 51 4 Popular vote 11,637,569 6,317,962 5,343,808 Percentage 29.7% 16.1% 13.6% Swing 4.6% 6.6%[2] 0.7%

Legislative election results map. Light Blue denotes provinces with a Christian Democratic plurality, Red denotes those with a Democratic Socialist plurality, Green denotes those with a Lega Nord plurality, Gray and Brown denotes those with a Regionalist plurality.

Prime Minister before election Giulio Andreotti Christian Democracy New Prime Minister Giuliano Amato Socialist Party

General elections were held in Italy on April 5, 1992 for the 11th Parliament of the Republic.^[3] They were the first without the traditionally second most important political force in Italian politics, the Italian Communist Party (PCI), which had been disbanded in 1991. It was replaced by a more social-democratic oriented force, the Democratic Party of the Left (PDS), and by a minority entity formed by members who did not want to renounce the communist tradition, the Communist Refoundation Party (PRC). However, put together they gained around 4% less than what the already declining PCI had obtained in the 1987 Italian general election, despite PRC had absorbed the disbanded Proletarian Democracy (DP).

The other major feature was the sudden rise of the federalist Lega Nord, which increased its vote from 0.5% of the preceding elections to more than 8%, increasing from a single member both in the Chamber and the Senate to 55 and 25, respectively. The onda lunga ("long wave") of Bettino Craxi's now centrist-oriented Italian Socialist Party, which in the past elections had been forecast next to overcome PCI, seemed to stop. Christian Democracy and the other traditional government parties, with the exception of the Republicans and the Liberals, also experienced a slight decrease in their vote.

Electoral system

The pure party-list proportional representation had traditionally become the electoral system for the Chamber of Deputies. Italian provinces were united in 32 constituencies, each electing a group of candidates. At constituency level, seats were divided between open lists using the largest remainder method with Imperiali quota. The remaining votes and seats were transferred at national level, where they were divided using the Hare quota, and automatically distributed to best losers into the local lists.

For the Senate, 237 single-seat constituencies were established, even if the assembly had risen to 315 members. The candidates needed a landslide victory of two thirds of votes to be elected, a goal which could be reached only by the German minorities in South Tirol. All remained votes and seats were grouped in party lists and regional constituencies, where a D'Hondt method was used: inside the lists, candidates with the best percentages were elected.

Parties and leaders

Results

Chamber of Deputies

Chamber of Deputies after the election.

Senate of the Republic

Senate after the election.

Regional pluralities in Senate

References

External links

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