Italy 1968 parliamentary election
Final results from ParlGov, read : Christian Democracy won 266 of 630 seats with 39.1% of the vote; 92.8% of registered voters cast a ballot, down 0.1 points on 1963.
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Result
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | ± seats | % | ± points | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Christian Democracy | 266 | +6 | 39.1 | +0.8 | 12,437,848 |
| Italian Communist Party | 177 | +11 | 26.9 | +1.6 | 8,551,347 |
| Italian Socialist Partywith Italian Democratic Socialist Party | 91 | +4 | 14.5 | +0.7 | 4,603,192 |
| Italian Liberal Party | 31 | −8 | 5.8 | −1.2 | 1,850,650 |
| Italian Socialist Party of Proletarian Unity | 23 | 4.5 | 1,414,697 | ||
| Italian Social Movement | 24 | −3 | 4.5 | −0.6 | 1,414,036 |
| Italian Republican Party | 9 | +3 | 2.0 | +0.6 | 626,533 |
| Italian Democratic Party of Monarchist Unity | 6 | −2 | 1.3 | −0.5 | 414,507 |
| South Tyrolean People's Party | 3 | 0 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 152,991 |
| Largest party without seats | 0 | 0 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 100,212 |
± is the change against the Italy 1963 parliamentary election, party by party.
Votes by party
- Christian Democracy 12,437,848
- Italian Communist Party 8,551,347
- Italian Socialist Party 4,603,192
- Italian Liberal Party 1,850,650
- Italian Socialist Party of Proletarian Unity 1,414,697
- Italian Social Movement 1,414,036
- Italian Republican Party 626,533
- Italian Democratic Party of Monarchist Unity 414,507
- South Tyrolean People's Party 152,991
- Largest party without seats 100,212
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.
ParlGov counts an alliance's votes and seats under its first party: such a row names the allies it counts.
Share of the vote
Turnout
92.8% of the 35,566,493 registered voters cast a ballot (33,001,644 ballots), down 0.1 points on 1963. 31,790,428 of them were valid votes. The lowest turnout since 1948 in our data. How turnout is counted.
Votes and seats
- Christian Democracy39.1% of votes42.2% of seats
- Italian Communist Party26.9% of votes28.1% of seats
- Italian Socialist Party14.5% of votes14.4% of seats
- Italian Liberal Party5.8% of votes4.9% of seats
- Italian Social Movement4.5% of votes3.8% of seats
- Italian Socialist Party of Proletarian Unity4.5% of votes3.7% of seats
- Italian Republican Party2.0% of votes1.4% of seats
- Italian Democratic Party of Monarchist Unity1.3% of votes1.0% of seats
- South Tyrolean People's Party0.5% of votes0.5% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 2.6 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 3.9 by votes and 3.5 by seats; Christian Democracy led Italian Communist Party by 12.2 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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