Italy 1953 parliamentary election
Final results from ParlGov, read : Christian Democracy won 263 of 590 seats with 40.1% of the vote; 93.8% of registered voters cast a ballot, up 1.6 points on 1948.
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Result
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | ± seats | % | ± points | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Christian Democracy | 263 | −42 | 40.1 | −8.4 | 10,862,073 |
| Italian Communist Party | 143 | +12 | 22.6 | −8.4 | 6,120,809 |
| Italian Socialist Party | 75 | +23 | 12.7 | 3,441,014 | |
| Monarchist National Party | 40 | +26 | 6.9 | +4.1 | 1,854,850 |
| Italian Social Movement | 29 | +23 | 5.8 | +3.8 | 1,582,154 |
| Italian Democratic Socialist Party | 19 | −14 | 4.5 | −2.6 | 1,222,957 |
| Italian Liberal Party | 13 | −6 | 3.0 | −0.8 | 815,929 |
| Italian Republican Party | 5 | −4 | 1.6 | −0.9 | 438,149 |
| Largest party without seats | 0 | 0.8 | 225,409 | ||
| South Tyrolean People's Party | 3 | 0 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 122,474 |
± is the change against the Italy 1948 parliamentary election, party by party.
Votes by party
- Christian Democracy 10,862,073
- Italian Communist Party 6,120,809
- Italian Socialist Party 3,441,014
- Monarchist National Party 1,854,850
- Italian Social Movement 1,582,154
- Italian Democratic Socialist Party 1,222,957
- Italian Liberal Party 815,929
- Italian Republican Party 438,149
- Largest party without seats 225,409
- South Tyrolean People's Party 122,474
ParlGov lists parties with at least 1 percent of the vote or 2 seats, so the rows do not add up to the valid votes. How we read it.
Share of the vote
Turnout
93.8% of the 30,272,236 registered voters cast a ballot (28,406,479 ballots), up 1.6 points on 1948. 27,087,701 of them were valid votes. How turnout is counted.
Votes and seats
- Christian Democracy40.1% of votes44.6% of seats
- Italian Communist Party22.6% of votes24.2% of seats
- Italian Socialist Party12.7% of votes12.7% of seats
- Monarchist National Party6.9% of votes6.8% of seats
- Italian Social Movement5.8% of votes4.9% of seats
- Italian Democratic Socialist Party4.5% of votes3.2% of seats
- Italian Liberal Party3.0% of votes2.2% of seats
- Italian Republican Party1.6% of votes0.8% of seats
- South Tyrolean People's Party0.5% of votes0.5% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 3.7 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 4.2 by votes and 3.5 by seats; Christian Democracy led Italian Communist Party by 17.5 points of the vote. How these are computed.
Sources and licence
Sources and licence
- ParlGov 2024 Release (Döring and Manow), Harvard Dataverse (source). Licence: CC0 1.0 Universal
- Wikidata, party colours (P465) (source). Licence: CC0 1.0 Universal
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