Italy 1979 parliamentary election
Final results from ParlGov, read : Christian Democracy won 262 of 630 seats with 38.3% of the vote; 90.6% of registered voters cast a ballot, down 2.8 points on 1976.
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Result
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | ± seats | % | ± points | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Christian Democracy | 262 | 0 | 38.3 | −0.4 | 14,046,291 |
| Italian Communist Party | 201 | −27 | 30.4 | −4.0 | 11,139,231 |
| Italian Socialist Party | 62 | +5 | 9.8 | +0.2 | 3,596,802 |
| Italian Social Movement | 30 | −5 | 5.3 | −0.8 | 1,930,639 |
| Italian Democratic Socialist Party | 20 | +5 | 3.8 | +0.4 | 1,407,535 |
| Radical Party | 18 | +14 | 3.5 | +2.4 | 1,264,870 |
| Italian Republican Party | 16 | +2 | 3.0 | −0.1 | 1,110,209 |
| Italian Liberal Party | 9 | +4 | 1.9 | +0.6 | 712,646 |
| Proletarian Unity Party | 6 | 1.4 | 502,247 | ||
| Largest party without seats | 0 | 0 | 0.8 | +0.7 | 294,462 |
| South Tyrolean People's Party | 4 | +1 | 0.6 | +0.1 | 204,899 |
| List for Trieste | 1 | 0.2 | 65,505 | ||
| Valdostan Union | 1 | 0.1 | 33,250 |
± is the change against the Italy 1976 parliamentary election, party by party.
Votes by party
- Christian Democracy 14,046,291
- Italian Communist Party 11,139,231
- Italian Socialist Party 3,596,802
- Italian Social Movement 1,930,639
- Italian Democratic Socialist Party 1,407,535
- Radical Party 1,264,870
- Italian Republican Party 1,110,209
- Italian Liberal Party 712,646
- Proletarian Unity Party 502,247
- Largest party without seats 294,462
- South Tyrolean People's Party 204,899
- List for Trieste 65,505
- Valdostan Union 33,250
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
90.6% of the 42,203,354 registered voters cast a ballot (38,242,918 ballots), down 2.8 points on 1976. 36,671,309 of them were valid votes. The lowest turnout since 1946 in our data. How turnout is counted.
Votes and seats
- Christian Democracy38.3% of votes41.6% of seats
- Italian Communist Party30.4% of votes31.9% of seats
- Italian Socialist Party9.8% of votes9.8% of seats
- Italian Social Movement5.3% of votes4.8% of seats
- Italian Democratic Socialist Party3.8% of votes3.2% of seats
- Radical Party3.5% of votes2.9% of seats
- Italian Republican Party3.0% of votes2.5% of seats
- Italian Liberal Party1.9% of votes1.4% of seats
- Proletarian Unity Party1.4% of votes1.0% of seats
- South Tyrolean People's Party0.6% of votes0.6% of seats
- List for Trieste0.2% of votes0.2% of seats
- Valdostan Union0.1% of votes0.2% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 2.8 (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 7.9 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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