1976 Italian general election

1976 Italian general election

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outgoing members elected members
Chamber of Deputies
All 630 seats in the Chamber of Deputies 316 seats needed for a majority
Turnout	93.39% ( 0.20pp)
Party Leader % Seats +/– DC Benigno Zaccagnini 38.71 262 −4 PCI Enrico Berlinguer 34.37 229 +50 PSI Francesco De Martino 9.64 57 −4 MSI Giorgio Almirante 6.10 35 −21 PSDI Pier Luigi Romita 3.38 15 −14 PRI Oddo Biasini 3.09 14 −1 DP Mario Capanna 1.52 6 New PLI Valerio Zanone 1.31 5 −15 PR Marco Pannella 1.07 4 New SVP Silvius Magnago 0.50 3 0 This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
Senate of the Republic
All 315 seats in the Senate of the Republic 162[a] seats needed for a majority
Turnout	93.40% ( 0.08pp)
Party Leader % Seats +/– DC Benigno Zaccagnini 38.88 135 0 PCI Enrico Berlinguer 33.83 116 +22 PSI Francesco De Martino 10.20 30 −3 MSI Giorgio Almirante 6.63 15 −11 PSDI Pier Luigi Romita 3.10 7 −4 PRI Oddo Biasini 2.69 7 +2 PLI Valerio Zanone 1.39 2 −6 SVP Silvius Magnago 0.50 2 0 UV–others Jean-Claude Perrin 0.07 1 0 This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below. Results of the election in the Chamber and Senate. Seat distribution for the Chamber of Deputies (left) and Senate (right). Prime Minister before Prime Minister after the election Aldo Moro DC Giulio Andreotti DC

The 1976 Italian general election was held in Italy on 20 June 1976.^[1] It was the first election after the voting age was lowered to 18.

The Christian Democracy remained stable with around 38% of votes, Enrico Berlinguer's Italian Communist Party made a great jump winning 7 points more than four years before: this result, which was quite homogeneous in the entire society because confirmed by the electors of the age-restricted Senate,^[b] began to show the possibility of a future change of the Italian government leadership. All minor parties lost many votes to the DC in the attempt to fight the Communist progress: between them, the historic Italian Liberal Party was nearly annihilated. Two new leftist forces made their debut in this election: the ultra-liberal Radical Party, which had led a successful referendum on divorce, and the far-left Trotskyist Proletarian Democracy.

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