Italy 1963 parliamentary election
Final results from ParlGov, read : Christian Democracy won 260 of 630 seats with 38.3% of the vote; 92.9% of registered voters cast a ballot, down 0.9 points on 1958.
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Result
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | ± seats | % | ± points | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Christian Democracy | 260 | −13 | 38.3 | −4.1 | 11,773,182 |
| Italian Communist Party | 166 | +26 | 25.3 | +2.6 | 7,767,601 |
| Italian Socialist Party | 87 | +3 | 13.8 | −0.4 | 4,255,836 |
| Italian Liberal Party | 39 | +22 | 7.0 | +3.5 | 2,144,270 |
| Italian Democratic Socialist Party | 33 | +11 | 6.1 | +1.5 | 1,876,271 |
| Italian Social Movement | 27 | +3 | 5.1 | +0.3 | 1,570,282 |
| Italian Democratic Party of Monarchist Unity | 8 | 1.8 | 536,948 | ||
| Italian Republican Party | 6 | 0 | 1.4 | 0.0 | 420,213 |
| South Tyrolean People's Party | 3 | 0 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 135,457 |
| Largest party without seats | 0 | 0 | 0.3 | +0.1 | 92,209 |
| Valdostan Union | 1 | 0 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 31,844 |
± is the change against the Italy 1958 parliamentary election, party by party.
Votes by party
- Christian Democracy 11,773,182
- Italian Communist Party 7,767,601
- Italian Socialist Party 4,255,836
- Italian Liberal Party 2,144,270
- Italian Democratic Socialist Party 1,876,271
- Italian Social Movement 1,570,282
- Italian Democratic Party of Monarchist Unity 536,948
- Italian Republican Party 420,213
- South Tyrolean People's Party 135,457
- Largest party without seats 92,209
- Valdostan Union 31,844
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
92.9% of the 34,199,184 registered voters cast a ballot (31,766,009 ballots), down 0.9 points on 1958. 30,752,871 of them were valid votes. The lowest turnout since 1948 in our data. How turnout is counted.
Votes and seats
- Christian Democracy38.3% of votes41.3% of seats
- Italian Communist Party25.3% of votes26.3% of seats
- Italian Socialist Party13.8% of votes13.8% of seats
- Italian Liberal Party7.0% of votes6.2% of seats
- Italian Democratic Socialist Party6.1% of votes5.2% of seats
- Italian Social Movement5.1% of votes4.3% of seats
- Italian Democratic Party of Monarchist Unity1.8% of votes1.3% of seats
- Italian Republican Party1.4% of votes1.0% of seats
- South Tyrolean People's Party0.4% of votes0.5% of seats
- Valdostan Union0.1% of votes0.2% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 2.5 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 4.1 by votes and 3.7 by seats; Christian Democracy led Italian Communist Party by 13.0 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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