Italy 1976 parliamentary election
Final results from ParlGov, read : Christian Democracy won 262 of 630 seats with 38.7% of the vote; 93.4% of registered voters cast a ballot, up 0.2 points on 1972.
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Result
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | ± seats | % | ± points | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Christian Democracy | 262 | −4 | 38.7 | 0.0 | 14,209,519 |
| Italian Communist Party | 228 | +49 | 34.4 | +7.2 | 12,616,650 |
| Italian Socialist Party | 57 | −4 | 9.6 | 0.0 | 3,540,309 |
| Italian Social Movement | 35 | −21 | 6.1 | −2.6 | 2,238,339 |
| Italian Democratic Socialist Party | 15 | −14 | 3.4 | −1.7 | 1,239,492 |
| Italian Republican Party | 14 | −1 | 3.1 | +0.2 | 1,135,546 |
| Proletarian Democracywith Proletarian Unity Party | 6 | 1.5 | 557,025 | ||
| Italian Liberal Party | 5 | −15 | 1.3 | −2.6 | 480,122 |
| Radical Party | 4 | 1.1 | 394,439 | ||
| South Tyrolean People's Party | 3 | 0 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 184,375 |
| Other parties (seats only) | 1 | 0.1 | 26,748 | ||
| Largest party without seats | 0 | 0.1 | 24,091 |
± is the change against the Italy 1972 parliamentary election, party by party.
Votes by party
- Christian Democracy 14,209,519
- Italian Communist Party 12,616,650
- Italian Socialist Party 3,540,309
- Italian Social Movement 2,238,339
- Italian Democratic Socialist Party 1,239,492
- Italian Republican Party 1,135,546
- Proletarian Democracy 557,025
- Italian Liberal Party 480,122
- Radical Party 394,439
- South Tyrolean People's Party 184,375
- Other parties (seats only) 26,748
- Largest party without seats 24,091
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
93.4% of the 40,426,658 registered voters cast a ballot (37,755,083 ballots), up 0.2 points on 1972. 36,709,578 of them were valid votes. The highest turnout since 1958 in our data. How turnout is counted.
Votes and seats
- Christian Democracy38.7% of votes41.6% of seats
- Italian Communist Party34.4% of votes36.2% of seats
- Italian Socialist Party9.6% of votes9.0% of seats
- Italian Social Movement6.1% of votes5.6% of seats
- Italian Democratic Socialist Party3.4% of votes2.4% of seats
- Italian Republican Party3.1% of votes2.2% of seats
- Proletarian Democracy1.5% of votes1.0% of seats
- Italian Liberal Party1.3% of votes0.8% of seats
- Radical Party1.1% of votes0.6% of seats
- South Tyrolean People's Party0.5% of votes0.5% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 2.7 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 3.5 by votes and 3.2 by seats; Christian Democracy led Italian Communist Party by 4.3 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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