Italian general election, 1996
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An early national general election was held in Italy on April 21, 1996 to elect members of the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate of the Republic. Olive Tree leader Romano Prodi won the election, narrowly defeating Silvio Berlusconi, who led the Pole of Freedoms. For the election, the Northern League of Umberto Bossi ran alone, after having left the Berlusconi I government in 1995, causing a crisis who drove President Oscar Luigi Scalfaro to dissolve the Italian Parliament. The Communist Refoundation Party, led by Fausto Bertinotti, instead made a pre-electoral alliance with the Olive Tree, presenting its own candidates, supported by Prodi's coalition, mainly in some safe leftist costituencies, in exchange for supporting Olive Tree candidates on the other ones, and ensuring external support for a Prodi government.
National results
The intricate electoral system of Italy, nicknamed as Mattarellum (after Sergio Mattarella, who was the official proponent), provided a 75% of the seats on the Chamber of Deputies (the Lower House) as elected by uninominal system, whereas the remaining 25% was assigned on a proportional way with a minimum threshold of 4%. If possible, the method associate on the Senate is even more complicated: 75% of seats by uninominal method, and 25% by a special proportional method that actually assigns the remaining seats to minority parties.
Results
Chamber of Deputies
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| Uninominal | Proportional | Total | ||||||||
| Votes | % | Seats | Coalition Party | Seats | Seats | |||||
| Party | Votes | % | Seats | |||||||
| Olive Tree | 15,758,981 | 45.4% | 247 | Democratic Party of the Left | 7,894,118 | 21.1% | 26 | 38 | 285 | |
| Populars, SVP, PRI, UD, Prodi | 2,554,072 | 6.8% | 4 | |||||||
| List Dini | 1,627,380 | 4.3% | 8 | |||||||
| Federation of the Greens | 938,665 | 2.5% | align="center" | |||||||
| House of Freedoms | 15,027,030 | 43.2% | 169 | Forza Italia | 7,712,149 | 20.6% | 37 | 77 | 246 | |
| National Alliance | 5,870,491 | 15.7% | 28 | |||||||
| CCD-CDU | 2,189,563 | 5.8% | 12 | |||||||
| Northern League | 4,038,239 | 10.8% | 39 | Northern League | 3,776,354 | 10.1% | 20 | 20 | 59 | |
| Communist Refoundation Party Presented itself as Progressisti | 1,000,501 | 2.7% | 15 | Communist Refoundation Party | 3,213,748 | 8.6% | 20 | 20 | 35 | |
| South Tyrolese People's Party | 156,708 | 1.0% | 3 | rowspan="1" align="left" | ||||||
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| Vallée d'Aoste | 37,431 | 0.1% | 1 | rowspan="1" align="left" | ||||||
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| Southern Action League | 82,373 | 0.2% | 1 | Southern Action League | 72,062 | 0.2% | align="center" | |||
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| List Pannella-Sgarbi | 69,406 | 0.2% | rowspan="1" align="center" | |||||||
| List Pannella-Sgarbi | 702,988 | 1.9% | align="center" | |||||||
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| Movimento Sociale-Fiamma Tricolore | 624,558 | 1.7% | rowspan="1" align="center" | |||||||
| Movimento Sociale-Fiamma Tricolore | 339,351 | 0.9% | align="center" | |||||||
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| Sardinia Nation | 42,245 | 0.1% | rowspan="1" align="center" | |||||||
| Sardinia Nation | 23,355 | 0.1% | align="center" | |||||||
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| Other | 502,463 | 1.3% | rowspan="1" align="center" | |||||||
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| 570,102 | 1.3% | align="center" | ||||||||
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Senate of the Republic
| Coalition | Results | |||||
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| Uninominal | Proportional | Total | ||||
| Votes | % | Seats | Seats | Seats | ||
| Olive Tree | 13,444,977 | 41.2% | 134 | 23 | 157 | |
| House of Freedoms | 12,185,020 | 37.3% | 67 | 49 | 116 | |
| Northern League | 3,394,733 | 10.4% | 18 | 9 | 27 | |
| Communist Refoundation Party | 940,655 | 2.9% | 10 | rowspan="1" align="center" | ||
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| South Tyrolese People's Party | 178,425 | 0.5% | 2 | rowspan="1" align="center" | ||
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| Movimento Sociale-Fiamma Tricolore | 747,487 | 2.3% | rowspan="1" align="center" | |||
| 1 | 1 | |||||
| List Pannella-Sgarbi | 509,826 | 1.6% | rowspan="1" align="center" | |||
| 1 | 1 | |||||
| Vallée d'Aoste | 29,538 | 0.1% | 1 | rowspan="1" align="center" | ||
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| Other | 1,193,923 | 3.7% | rowspan="1" align="center" | |||
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Both chambers, uninominal part, grouped by Italian region
| Region | Seats by region | |||||||||
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| House of Freedoms | Olive Tree | Northern League | PRC | Other | House of Freedoms | Olive Tree | Northern League | PRC | Other | |
| Piedmont | 11 | 23 | 1 | 1 | align="center" | |||||
| 5 | 10 | 1 | 1 | align="center" | ||||||
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| Lombardy | 34 | 19 | 20 | align="center" | ||||||
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| 11 | 15 | 8 | 1 | align="center" | ||||||
| Trentino-South Tyrol | 1 | 4 | align="center" | |||||||
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| 3 | 2 | 2 | align="center" | |||||||
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| Veneto | 7 | 14 | 15 | 1 | align="center" | |||||
| 1 | 8 | 8 | align="center" | |||||||
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| Friuli-Venezia Giulia | 5 | 2 | 3 | align="center" | ||||||
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| 3 | 1 | 1 | align="center" | |||||||
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| Liguria | 4 | 9 | align="center" | |||||||
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| 2 | 3 | align="center" | ||||||||
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| Emilia-Romagna | 1 | 28 | align="center" | |||||||
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| 13 | align="center" | |||||||||
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| Tuscany | 1 | 24 | align="center" | |||||||
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| 12 | align="center" | |||||||||
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| Marche | 1 | 9 | align="center" | |||||||
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| Latium | 16 | 27 | align="center" | |||||||
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| 8 | 13 | align="center" | ||||||||
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| Abruzzo | 5 | 6 | align="center" | |||||||
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| 1 | 4 | align="center" | ||||||||
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| Molise | 1 | 2 | align="center" | |||||||
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| Campania | 21 | 25 | align="center" | |||||||
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| 7 | 13 | align="center" | ||||||||
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| Apulia | 17 | 16 | align="center" | |||||||
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| 1 | 9 | 7 | align="center" | |||||||
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| Basilicata | 1 | 4 | align="center" | |||||||
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| Calabria | 6 | 11 | align="center" | |||||||
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| 4 | 4 | align="center" | ||||||||
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| Sicily | 31 | 10 | align="center" | |||||||
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| 13 | 7 | align="center" | ||||||||
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| Sardinia | 6 | 7 | align="center" | |||||||
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External links
- () [Minister of Internal Affairs of Italy: 1996 Election Results, Chamber of Deputies] (compressed ZIP file)
- () [Minister of Internal Affairs of Italy: 1996 Election Results, Senate of the Republic] (compressed ZIP file)
| Preceded by: 1994 general election | Italian general elections | Followed by: 2001 general election |
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