1979 Italian general election

1979 Italian general election
3 June 1979
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
Registered42,203,354 (C) · 36,362,037 (S)
Turnout38,242,918 (C) · 90.6% (2.8 pp)
32,976,304 (S) · 90.7% (2.7 pp)
  Majority party Minority party Third party
 
Leader Benigno Zaccagnini Enrico Berlinguer Bettino Craxi
Party DC PCI PSI
Leader since 21 July 1975 17 March 1972 15 July 1976
Leader's seat Bologna (C) Rome (C) Milan (C)
Seats won 262 (C) / 138 (S) 201 (C) / 109 (S) 62 (C) / 32 (S)
Seat change 1 (C) / 3 (S) 26 (C) / 7 (S) 5 (C) / 3 (S)
Popular vote 14,046,290 (C)
12,010,716 (S)		 11,139,231 (C)
9,855,951 (S)		 3,630,052 (C)
3,252,410 (S)
Percentage 38.3% (C)
38.3% (S)		 30.4% (C)
31.5% (S)		 9.9% (C)
10.4% (S)
Swing 0.4 pp (C)
0.5 pp (S)		 4.0 pp (C)
2.3 pp (S)		 0.3 pp (C)
0.2 pp (S)
  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 
Leader Giorgio Almirante Pietro Longo Marco Pannella
Party MSI PSDI PR
Leader since 29 June 1969 20 October 1978 18 July 1976
Leader's seat Rome (C) Rome (C) Naples (C)
Seats won 30 (C) / 13 (S) 20 (C) / 9 (S) 18 (C) / 2 (S)
Seat change 5 (C) / 2 (S) 5 (C) / 3 (S) 14 (C) / 2 (S)
Popular vote 1,930,639 (C)
1,780,950 (S)		 1,407,535 (C)
1,320,729 (S)		 1,264,870 (C)
413,444 (S)
Percentage 5.3% (C)
5.7% (S)		 3.8% (C)
4.2% (S)		 3.5% (C)
1.3% (S)
Swing 0.8 pp (C)
0.9 pp (S)		 0.4 pp (C)
1.1 pp (S)		 2.4 pp (C)
0.4 pp (S)
Results of the election in the Chamber and Senate.
Prime Minister before election

Giulio Andreotti
DC

 Prime Minister after the election

Francesco Cossiga
DC

The 1979 Italian general election was held in Italy on 3 June 1979. This election was called just a week before the European elections.

Terrorist attacks by the Red Brigades led to a reversal of the results of the previous election three years before: for the first time the Italian Communist Party lost significant numbers of seats, delaying the government change that had seemed imminent in 1976. The Communist defeat gave new strength to minor parties, as tactical voting for Christian Democracy seemed less necessary to prevent a communist victory. The Christian Democrats remained stable nonetheless, while the neo-fascist Italian Social Movement was weakened by the success of its spin-off National Democracy.

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