Italy 1983 parliamentary election
Final results from ParlGov, read : Christian Democracy won 225 of 630 seats with 32.9% of the vote; 88.0% of registered voters cast a ballot, down 2.6 points on 1979.
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Result
- Christian Democracy225
- Italian Communist Party198
- Italian Socialist Party73
- Italian Social Movement42
- Italian Republican Party29
- Italian Democratic Socialist Party23
- Italian Liberal Party16
- Radical Party11
- Proletarian Democracy7
- South Tyrolean People's Party3
- Liga Veneta1
- Sardinian Action Party1
- Valdostan Union1
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | ± seats | % | ± points | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Christian Democracy | 225 | −37 | 32.9 | −5.4 | 12,153,081 |
| Italian Communist Party | 198 | −3 | 29.9 | −0.5 | 11,032,318 |
| Italian Socialist Party | 73 | +11 | 11.4 | +1.6 | 4,223,362 |
| Italian Social Movement | 42 | +12 | 6.8 | +1.5 | 2,511,487 |
| Italian Republican Party | 29 | +13 | 5.1 | +2.0 | 1,874,512 |
| Italian Democratic Socialist Party | 23 | +3 | 4.1 | +0.3 | 1,508,234 |
| Italian Liberal Party | 16 | +7 | 2.9 | +1.0 | 1,066,980 |
| Radical Party | 11 | −7 | 2.2 | −1.3 | 809,810 |
| Proletarian Democracy | 7 | 1.5 | 542,039 | ||
| National Pensioners' Party | 0 | 1.4 | 503,461 | ||
| South Tyrolean People's Party | 3 | −1 | 0.5 | −0.1 | 184,940 |
| Liga Veneta | 1 | 0.3 | 125,311 | ||
| Sardinian Action Party | 1 | 0.3 | 91,923 | ||
| Valdostan Union | 1 | 0 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 28,086 |
± is the change against the Italy 1979 parliamentary election, party by party.
Votes by party
- Christian Democracy 12,153,081
- Italian Communist Party 11,032,318
- Italian Socialist Party 4,223,362
- Italian Social Movement 2,511,487
- Italian Republican Party 1,874,512
- Italian Democratic Socialist Party 1,508,234
- Italian Liberal Party 1,066,980
- Radical Party 809,810
- Proletarian Democracy 542,039
- National Pensioners' Party 503,461
- South Tyrolean People's Party 184,940
- Liga Veneta 125,311
- Sardinian Action Party 91,923
- Valdostan Union 28,086
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
88.0% of the 44,526,357 registered voters cast a ballot (39,188,182 ballots), down 2.6 points on 1979. 36,906,005 of them were valid votes. The lowest turnout of this kind in our data, which begins in 1946. How turnout is counted.
Votes and seats
- Christian Democracy32.9% of votes35.7% of seats
- Italian Communist Party29.9% of votes31.4% of seats
- Italian Socialist Party11.4% of votes11.6% of seats
- Italian Social Movement6.8% of votes6.7% of seats
- Italian Republican Party5.1% of votes4.6% of seats
- Italian Democratic Socialist Party4.1% of votes3.7% of seats
- Italian Liberal Party2.9% of votes2.5% of seats
- Radical Party2.2% of votes1.7% of seats
- Proletarian Democracy1.5% of votes1.1% of seats
- South Tyrolean People's Party0.5% of votes0.5% of seats
- Liga Veneta0.3% of votes0.2% of seats
- Sardinian Action Party0.3% of votes0.2% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 2.6 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 4.5 by votes and 4.0 by seats; Christian Democracy led Italian Communist Party by 3.0 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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