1968 Italian general election

1968 Italian general election
19 May 1968
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
Registered35,566,493 (C) · 32,517,638 (S)
Turnout33,001,644 (C) · 92.8% (0.1 pp)
30,252,921 (S) · 93.0% (0.1 pp)
  Majority party Minority party Third party
 
Leader Mariano Rumor Luigi Longo Francesco De Martino
Party DC PCI Unified Socialist
Leader since 27 January 1964 22 August 1964 12 December 1963
Leader's seat Verona (C) Milan (C) Naples (C)
Seats won 266 (C) / 135 (S) 177 (C) / 101 (S) 91 (C) / 46 (S)
Seat change 6 (C) / 6 (S) 11 (C) / 17 (S) 29 (C) / 12 (S)
Popular vote 12,441,553 (C)
10,972,114 (S)		 8,557,404 (C)
8,585,601 (S)		 4,605,832 (C)
4,354,906 (S)
Percentage 39.1% (C)
38.3% (S)		 26.9% (C)
30.0% (S)		 14.5% (C)
15.2% (S)
Swing 0.8 pp (C)
1.8 pp (S)		 1.6 pp (C)
6.5 pp (S)		 5.5 pp (C)
5.1 pp (S)
  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 
Leader Giovanni Malagodi Arturo Michelini Tullio Vecchietti
Party PLI MSI PSIUP
Leader since 4 April 1954 10 October 1954 12 January 1964
Leader's seat Milan (C) Rome (C) Rome (C)
Seats won 31 (C) / 16 (S) 24 (C) / 11 (S) 23 (C) / w. PCI (S)
Seat change 8 (C) / 2 (S) 3 (C) / 3 (S) New party
Popular vote 1,850,650 (C)
1,943,795 (S)		 1,414,036 (C)
1,304,847 (S)		 1,414,697 (C)
w. PCI (S)
Percentage 5.1% (C)
6.8% (S)		 4.5% (C)
4.6% (S)		 4.5% (C)
w. PCI (S)
Swing 1.2 pp (C)
0.6 pp (S)		 0.6 pp (C)
0.7 pp (S)		 New party
Results of the election in the Chamber and Senate
Prime Minister before election

Aldo Moro
DC

 Prime Minister after the election

Giovanni Leone
DC

The 1968 Italian general election was held in Italy on 19 May 1968. The Christian Democracy (DC) remained stable around 38% of the votes. They were marked by a victory of the Communist Party (PCI) passing from 25% of 1963 to c. 30% at the Senate, where it presented jointly with the new Italian Socialist Party of Proletarian Unity (PSIUP), which included members of Socialist Party (PSI) which disagreed the latter's alliance with DC. PSIUP gained c. 4.5% at the Chamber. The Socialist Party and the Democratic Socialist Party (PSDI) presented together as the Unified PSI–PSDI, but gained c. 15%, far less than the sum of what the two parties had obtained separately in 1963.

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