Italian regional elections, 1975

Italian regional elections, 1975
15 June 1975
Presidents and regional assemblies of Piedmont, Lombardy, Veneto, Liguria, Emilia-Romagna, Tuscany, Marche, Umbria, Lazio, Campania, Molise, Abruzzo, Apulia, Basilicata and Calabria

The Italian regional elections of 1975 were held on June 15. The fifteen ordinary regions, created in 1970, elected their second assemblies. Following the 1971 census, Piedmont, Veneto and Latium had ten more seats each.

Electoral system

The pure party-list proportional representation had become the accepted electoral system of Italy, and it was adopted for the regional vote too. Each Italian province corresponded to a constituency electing a group of candidates. At the constituency level, seats were divided between open lists using the largest remainder method with Droop quota. Remaining votes and seats were transferred at the regional level, where they were divided using the Hare quota, and automatically distributed to the best-performing losers on the local lists.

Results

The following table summarises the results of all the lists reaching at least ten percent of the vote.

Piedmont
Italian Communist Party 33.9% 22   9
Christian Democracy 32.1% 20
Italian Socialist Party 12.9% 8 3
Lombardy
Christian Democracy 37.5% 32 4
Italian Communist Party 30.4% 25 6
Italian Socialist Party 14.1% 11 2
Veneto
Christian Democracy 48.0% 31 3
Italian Communist Party 22.8% 14 5
Italian Socialist Party 12.8% 8 3
Liguria
Italian Communist Party 38.4% 16 3
Christian Democracy 30.4% 13 1
Italian Socialist Party 13.5% 5 1
Emilia-Romagna
Italian Communist Party 48.3% 26 2
Christian Democracy 25.6% 13 1
Italian Socialist Party 10.2% 4 1
Tuscany
Italian Communist Party 46.7% 25 2
Christian Democracy 28.5% 15 2
Italian Socialist Party 10.7% 4 1
Umbria
Italian Communist Party 46.1% 14 1
Christian Democracy 27.6% 9
Italian Socialist Party 13.9% 4 1
Marche
Christian Democracy 36.5% 16 1
Italian Communist Party 36.9% 15 1
Latium
Italian Communist Party 33.5% 21 8
Christian Democracy 31.5% 20 2
Italian Social Movement 11.4% 6 1
Abruzzo
Christian Democracy 42.5% 18 2
Italian Communist Party 30.3% 13 3
Italian Socialist Party 10.2% 4 1
Molise
Christian Democracy 50.0% 16
Italian Communist Party 17.9% 6 1
Italian Socialist Party 10.1% 3
Campania
Christian Democracy 36.7% 23 2
Italian Communist Party 27.1% 16 3
Italian Social Movement 12.2% 7 2
Italian Socialist Party 10.4% 6 1
Apulia
Christian Democracy 39.2% 21 1
Italian Communist Party 28.6% 15 1
Italian Socialist Party 11.9% 5
Italian Social Movement 10.8% 5 1
Basilicata
Christian Democracy 41.9% 13 1
Italian Communist Party 27.1% 9 2
Italian Socialist Party 13.2% 4
Calabria
Christian Democracy 39.5% 17
Italian Communist Party 25.2% 10
Italian Socialist Party 14.7% 6

Nine Regional Councils elected administrations led by a Christian Democracy members backed by centrist alliances, while three regions, Piedmont, Liguria and Latium, changed sides, adding themselves to the traditional leftist strongholds Emilia-Romagna, Tuscany and Umbria: PCI and PSI shared three presidencies each. It was a big victory for Communist leader Enrico Berlinguer.

The results were a shock for the Christian Democrats which, even though they remained the majority party, saw the possibility of an historical defeat at national level in the next election. The party's secretary Amintore Fanfani was fired, and the government led by Aldo Moro began to run into more and more difficulties, leading to an early dissolution of the national legislature the following year.

Results by region

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