Italy 1972 parliamentary election
Final results from ParlGov, read : Christian Democracy won 266 of 630 seats with 38.7% of the vote; 93.2% of registered voters cast a ballot, up 0.4 points on 1968.
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Result
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | ± seats | % | ± points | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Christian Democracy | 266 | 0 | 38.7 | −0.4 | 12,912,466 |
| Italian Communist Party | 179 | +2 | 27.2 | +0.3 | 9,068,961 |
| Italian Socialist Party | 61 | −30 | 9.6 | −4.9 | 3,208,497 |
| Italian Social Movement | 56 | +32 | 8.7 | +4.2 | 2,894,722 |
| Italian Democratic Socialist Party | 29 | 5.1 | 1,718,142 | ||
| Italian Liberal Party | 20 | −11 | 3.9 | −1.9 | 1,300,439 |
| Italian Republican Party | 15 | +6 | 2.9 | +0.9 | 954,357 |
| Italian Socialist Party of Proletarian Unity | 0 | −23 | 1.9 | −2.6 | 648,571 |
| South Tyrolean People's Party | 3 | 0 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 153,674 |
| Valdostan Union | 1 | 0.1 | 34,083 |
± is the change against the Italy 1968 parliamentary election, party by party.
Votes by party
- Christian Democracy 12,912,466
- Italian Communist Party 9,068,961
- Italian Socialist Party 3,208,497
- Italian Social Movement 2,894,722
- Italian Democratic Socialist Party 1,718,142
- Italian Liberal Party 1,300,439
- Italian Republican Party 954,357
- Italian Socialist Party of Proletarian Unity 648,571
- South Tyrolean People's Party 153,674
- Valdostan Union 34,083
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
93.2% of the 37,049,351 registered voters cast a ballot (34,532,535 ballots), up 0.4 points on 1968. 33,403,528 of them were valid votes. The highest turnout since 1958 in our data. How turnout is counted.
Votes and seats
- Christian Democracy38.7% of votes42.2% of seats
- Italian Communist Party27.2% of votes28.4% of seats
- Italian Socialist Party9.6% of votes9.7% of seats
- Italian Social Movement8.7% of votes8.9% of seats
- Italian Democratic Socialist Party5.1% of votes4.6% of seats
- Italian Liberal Party3.9% of votes3.2% of seats
- Italian Republican Party2.9% of votes2.4% of seats
- South Tyrolean People's Party0.5% of votes0.5% of seats
- Valdostan Union0.1% of votes0.2% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 3.0 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 4.1 by votes and 3.6 by seats; Christian Democracy led Italian Communist Party by 11.5 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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