1994 Italian general election

1994 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 163 seats needed for a majority[a]
Registered	48,135,041 (C) · 41,795,730 (S)
Turnout	41,546,290 (C) · 86.3% (1.1 pp) 35,873,375 (S) · 85.8% (1.0 pp)
First party Second party Third party   Leader Silvio Berlusconi Achille Occhetto Mario Segni Party Forza Italia PDS Segni Pact Alliance Pole of Freedoms / Pole of Good Government Progressives Pact for Italy Leader since 18 January 1994 21 June 1988[b] 5 January 1994 Leader's seat Roma Centrale (C) Borgo Panigale (C) Sardegna (C)[c] Seats won 366 (C) / 156 (S) 213 (C) / 122 (S) 46 (C) / 31 (S) Constituency vote 17,746,612 (C) 14,110,705 (S) 12.632,680 (C) 10,881,320 (S) 6,019,038 (C) 5,519,090 (S) % and swing 46.1% (C) 42.6% (S) 32.8% (C) 32.9% (S) 15.6% (C) 16.7% (S) Party vote 16,585,516 (C) 13,308,244 (C) 6,098,986 (C) % and swing 42.8% (C) 34.3% (C) 15.8% (C)
Results of the single-member constituencies in the Chamber of Deputies (left) and Senate (right).
Prime Minister before election Carlo Azeglio Ciampi Independent Prime Minister after the election Silvio Berlusconi Forza Italia

The 1994 Italian general election was held on 27 and 28 March 1994 to elect members of the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate of the Republic for the 12th legislature. Silvio Berlusconi's centre-right coalition won a large majority in the Chamber of Deputies but just missed winning a majority in the Senate. The Italian People's Party, the renamed Christian Democracy (DC), which had dominated Italian politics for almost half a century, was decimated. It took only 29 seats versus 206 for the DC two years earlier—easily the worst defeat a sitting government in Italy has ever suffered, and one of the worst ever suffered by a Western European governing party.
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