Italy 1996 parliamentary election
Final results from ParlGov, read : Democrats of the Left won 171 of 630 seats; 82.9% of registered voters cast a ballot, down 3.2 points on 1994.
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Result
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | ± seats | % | ± points | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pole of Freedomswith Christian Democratic Centre and United Christian Democrats | 0 | 0 | 42.1 | −4.3 | 15,780,752 |
| The Olive Treewith Segni Pact, South Tyrolean People's Party, Italian Republican Party, Democratic Union, Sardinian Action Party, Italian People's Party, Italian... | 0 | 0 | 34.9 | +0.6 | 13,097,169 |
| Lega Nord | 59 | −58 | 10.1 | 3,776,354 | |
| Communist Refoundation Party | 35 | −4 | 8.6 | 3,213,748 | |
| Radical Party | 0 | −6 | 1.9 | 702,988 | |
| Southern Action League | 1 | 0 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 82,373 |
| Valdostan Union | 1 | 0 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 37,431 |
| Democrats of the Left | 171 | +62 | |||
| Forza Italia | 123 | +24 | |||
| National Alliance | 93 | −16 | |||
| Populars for Prodi | 75 | ||||
| Christian Democratic Centre / United Christian Democrats | 30 | ||||
| Italian Renewal | 26 | ||||
| Federation of the Greens | 16 | +5 |
± is the change against the Italy 1994 parliamentary election, party by party.
Votes by party
- Pole of Freedoms 15,780,752
- The Olive Tree 13,097,169
- Lega Nord 3,776,354
- Communist Refoundation Party 3,213,748
- Radical Party 702,988
- Southern Action League 82,373
- Valdostan Union 37,431
- Democrats of the Left
- Forza Italia
- National Alliance
- Populars for Prodi
- Christian Democratic Centre / United Christian Democrats
- Italian Renewal
- Federation of the Greens
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
82.9% of the 48,846,238 registered voters cast a ballot (40,496,438 ballots), down 3.2 points on 1994. 37,295,109 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
- Lega Nord10.1% of votes9.4% of seats
- Communist Refoundation Party8.6% of votes5.6% of seats
- Southern Action League0.2% of votes0.2% of seats
- Valdostan Union0.1% of votes0.2% of seats
- Pole of Freedoms42.1% of votes0.0% of seats
- The Olive Tree34.9% of votes0.0% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 47.6 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 3.2 by votes and 6.1 by seats; Pole of Freedoms led The Olive Tree by 7.2 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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