Italy 2008 parliamentary election
Final results from ParlGov, read : Forza Italia won 276 of 630 seats with 38.2% of the vote; 75.5% of registered voters cast a ballot, down 6.2 points on 2006.
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Result
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | ± seats | % | ± points | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Forza Italia | 276 | +136 | 38.2 | +14.6 | 13,965,781 |
| Democratic Party | 217 | 34.0 | 12,434,260 | ||
| Lega Nord | 60 | +34 | 8.3 | +3.8 | 3,026,865 |
| Union of the Centre | 36 | −3 | 5.8 | −0.9 | 2,138,246 |
| Italy of Values | 29 | +12 | 4.5 | +2.2 | 1,636,173 |
| Communist Refoundation Partywith Party of Italian Communists and Federation of the Greens | 0 | −41 | 3.2 | −2.5 | 1,152,793 |
| Tricolour Flame | 0 | 2.5 | 899,935 | ||
| Movement for Autonomy | 8 | 1.1 | 410,499 | ||
| South Tyrolean People's Party | 2 | −2 | 0.4 | −0.1 | 147,718 |
| Associative Italians Abroad | 1 | 0 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 86,970 |
| Autonomy Liberty Democracy | 1 | 0 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 29,314 |
± is the change against the Italy 2006 parliamentary election, party by party.
Votes by party
- Forza Italia 13,965,781
- Democratic Party 12,434,260
- Lega Nord 3,026,865
- Union of the Centre 2,138,246
- Italy of Values 1,636,173
- Communist Refoundation Party 1,152,793
- Tricolour Flame 899,935
- Movement for Autonomy 410,499
- South Tyrolean People's Party 147,718
- Associative Italians Abroad 86,970
- Autonomy Liberty Democracy 29,314
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
75.5% of the 50,257,354 registered voters cast a ballot (37,954,253 ballots), down 6.2 points on 2006. 36,530,777 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
- Forza Italia38.2% of votes43.8% of seats
- Democratic Party34.0% of votes34.4% of seats
- Lega Nord8.3% of votes9.5% of seats
- Union of the Centre5.8% of votes5.7% of seats
- Italy of Values4.5% of votes4.6% of seats
- Movement for Autonomy1.1% of votes1.3% of seats
- South Tyrolean People's Party0.4% of votes0.3% of seats
- Associative Italians Abroad0.2% of votes0.2% of seats
- Autonomy Liberty Democracy0.1% of votes0.2% of seats
- Communist Refoundation Party3.2% of votes0.0% of seats
- Tricolour Flame2.5% of votes0.0% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 4.9 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 3.6 by votes and 3.1 by seats; Forza Italia led Democratic Party by 4.2 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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