1946 Italian general election

1946 Italian general election

← 1934 2–3 June 1946 1948 →
All 556 seats in the Constituent Assembly 279 seats needed for a majority
Registered	28,005,449
Turnout	89.08%
Majority party Minority party Third party   Leader Alcide De Gasperi Pietro Nenni Palmiro Togliatti Party DC PSI PCI Leader's seat Trento Whole Italy Whole Italy Seats won 207 115 104 Popular vote 8,101,004 4,758,129 4,356,686 Percentage 35.21% 20.68% 18.93%   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Leader Luigi Einaudi Guglielmo Giannini Randolfo Pacciardi Party National Democratic Union Common Man's Front PRI Leader's seat Whole Italy Rome Pisa Seats won 41 30 23 Popular vote 1,560,638 1,211,956 1,003,007 Percentage 6.78% 5.27% 4.36%
On the left, results of the election by province. On the right, the seat distribution by constituency.
Prime Minister before election Alcide De Gasperi DC Prime Minister after the election Alcide De Gasperi DC

General elections were held in Italy on Sunday 2 and also on Monday 3 June (but until noon) 1946.^[1] They were the first after World War II and elected 556 deputies to the Constituent Assembly. Theoretically, a total of 573 deputies were to be elected, but the election did not take place in the Julian March and in South Tyrol, which were under military occupation by the United Nations.

For the first time, Italian women were allowed to vote in a national election and run for a seat in the Constituent Assembly.

This election was held concurrently with the 1946 Italian institutional referendum on the abolition of the monarchy.