Italy 2009 European Parliament election
Final results from ParlGov, read : Forza Italia won 29 of 72 seats with 35.3% of the vote; 65.1% of registered voters cast a ballot, down 6.6 points on 2004.
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European Parliament result
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | ± seats | % | ± points | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Forza Italia | 29 | +13 | 35.3 | +14.3 | 10,797,296 |
| Democratic Party | 21 | 26.1 | 7,999,476 | ||
| Lega Nord | 9 | +5 | 10.2 | +5.2 | 3,126,181 |
| Italy of Values | 7 | +5 | 8.0 | +5.9 | 2,450,643 |
| Union of the Centre | 5 | 0 | 6.5 | +0.6 | 1,995,021 |
| Communist Refoundation Partywith Party of Italian Communists | 0 | −5 | 3.4 | −2.7 | 1,037,862 |
| Italian Leftwith Federation of the Greens and Italian Democratic Socialists / Party | 0 | 3.1 | 957,822 | ||
| Radical Party | 0 | −2 | 2.4 | +0.2 | 743,284 |
| Movement for Autonomywith Pensioners' Party | 0 | 2.2 | 681,290 | ||
| South Tyrolean People's Party | 1 | 0 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 143,044 |
± is the change against the Italy 2004 European Parliament election, party by party.
Votes by party
- Forza Italia 10,797,296
- Democratic Party 7,999,476
- Lega Nord 3,126,181
- Italy of Values 2,450,643
- Union of the Centre 1,995,021
- Communist Refoundation Party 1,037,862
- Italian Left 957,822
- Radical Party 743,284
- Movement for Autonomy 681,290
- South Tyrolean People's Party 143,044
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
65.1% of the 50,276,247 registered voters cast a ballot (32,748,675 ballots), down 6.6 points on 2004. 30,623,840 of them were valid votes. The lowest turnout of this kind in our data, which begins in 1979. How turnout is counted.
Votes and seats
- Forza Italia35.3% of votes40.3% of seats
- Democratic Party26.1% of votes29.2% of seats
- Lega Nord10.2% of votes12.5% of seats
- Italy of Values8.0% of votes9.7% of seats
- Union of the Centre6.5% of votes6.9% of seats
- South Tyrolean People's Party0.5% of votes1.4% of seats
- Communist Refoundation Party3.4% of votes0.0% of seats
- Italian Left3.1% of votes0.0% of seats
- Radical Party2.4% of votes0.0% of seats
- Movement for Autonomy2.2% of votes0.0% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 6.2 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 4.6 by votes and 3.6 by seats; Forza Italia led Democratic Party by 9.1 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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