1976 Italian general election

1976 Italian general election

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All 630 seats in the Chamber of Deputies 316 seats needed for a majority All 315 elective seats in the Senate 162 seats needed for a majority[a]
Registered	40,426,658 (C) · 34,928,214 (S)
Turnout	37,755,090 (C) · 93.4% (0.2 pp) 32,621,581 (S) · 93.4% (0.1 pp)
Majority party Minority party Third party   Leader Benigno Zaccagnini Enrico Berlinguer Francesco De Martino Party DC PCI PSI Leader since 21 July 1975 17 March 1972 13 March 1971[b] Leader's seat Bologna (C) Rome (C) Naples (C) Seats won 263 (C) / 135 (S) 227 (C) / 116 (S) 57 (C) / 29 (S) Seat change 3 (C) / 0 (S) 48 (C) / 22 (S) 8 (C) / 4 (S) Popular vote 14,218,298 (C) 12,227,353 (S) 12,622,728 (C) 10,637,772 (S) 3,542,998 (C) 3,208,164 (S) Percentage 38.7% (C) 38.8% (S) 34.4% (C) 33.8% (S) 9.6% (C) 10.2% (S) Swing 0.0 pp (C) 0.7 pp (S) 7.3 pp (C) 7.2 pp (S) 0.4 pp (C) 0.5 pp (S)   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Leader Giorgio Almirante Pier Luigi Romita Oddo Biasini Party MSI PSDI PRI Leader since 29 June 1969[c] 10 October 1976 2 March 1975 Leader's seat Rome (C) Turin (C) Bologna (C) Seats won 35 (C) / 15 (S) 15 (C) / 6 (S) 14 (C) / 6 (S) Seat change 21 (C) / 11 (S) 14 (C) / 5 (S) 1 (C) / 1 (S) Popular vote 2,238,339 (C) 2,086,430 (S) 1,239,492 (C) 974,940 (S) 1,135,546 (C) 846,415 (S) Percentage 6.1% (C) 6.6% (S) 3.4% (C) 3.1% (S) 3.1% (C) 2.7% (S) Swing 2.6 pp (C) 2.6 pp (S) 0.5 pp (C) 2.3 pp (S) 0.2 pp (C) 0.4 pp (S)
Results of the election in the Chamber and Senate.
Prime Minister before election Aldo Moro DC Prime Minister after the election Giulio Andreotti DC

The 1976 Italian general election was held in Italy on 20 June 1976.^[1] It was the first election after the voting age was lowered to 18.

The Christian Democracy remained stable with around 38% of votes, Enrico Berlinguer's Italian Communist Party made a great jump winning 7 points more than four years before: this result, which was quite homogeneous in the entire society because confirmed by the electors of the age-restricted Senate,^[d] began to show the possibility of a future change of the Italian government leadership. All minor parties lost many votes to the DC in the attempt to fight the Communist progress: between them, the historic Italian Liberal Party was nearly annihilated. Two new leftist forces made their debut in this election: the ultra-liberal Radical Party, which had led a successful referendum on divorce, and the far-left Trotskyist Proletarian Democracy.

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