2018 Italian general election

2018 Italian general election
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Chamber of Deputies

All 630 seats in the Chamber of Deputies
316 seats needed for a majority
Turnout72.94% (Decrease 2.26 pp)
Party Leader % Seats +/–
Centre-right coalition (265 seats)
Lega Matteo Salvini 17.35 125 +107
Forza Italia Silvio Berlusconi 14.00 104 +6
Brothers of Italy Giorgia Meloni 4.35 32 +23
Us with ItalyUDC Raffaele Fitto 1.30 4 New
Five Star Movement (227 seats)
Five Star Movement Luigi Di Maio 32.68 227 +118
Centre-left coalition (122 seats)
Democratic Party Matteo Renzi 18.76 112 −185
More Europe Emma Bonino 2.56 3 New
Together Giulio Santagata 0.58 1 New
Popular Civic List Beatrice Lorenzin 0.54 2 New
SVPPATT Philipp Achammer 0.41 4 −1
Other parties (16 seats)
Free and Equal Pietro Grasso 3.38 14 New
MAIE Ricardo Merlo 1 −1
USEI Eugenio Sangregorio 1 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
161[a] seats needed for a majority
Turnout73.01% (Decrease 2.10 pp)
Party Leader % Seats +/–
Centre-right coalition (137 seats)
Lega Matteo Salvini 17.61 58 +40
Forza Italia Silvio Berlusconi 14.43 57 −41
Brothers of Italy Giorgia Meloni 4.26 18 +18
Us with ItalyUDC Raffaele Fitto 1.20 4 New
Five Star Movement (112 seats)
Five Star Movement Luigi Di Maio 32.22 112 +58
Centre-left coalition (59 seats)
Democratic Party Matteo Renzi 19.14 53 −58
More Europe Emma Bonino 2.37 1 New
Together Giulio Santagata 0.54 1 New
Popular Civic List Beatrice Lorenzin 0.52 1 New
SVPPATT Philipp Achammer 0.42 3 −1
Other parties (7 seats)
Free and Equal Pietro Grasso 3.28 4 New
Aosta Valley No leader 1 0
MAIE Ricardo Merlo 1 −1
USEI Eugenio Sangregorio 1 0
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
Prime Minister before Prime Minister after election
Paolo Gentiloni
Democratic Party
Giuseppe Conte
Independent

The 2018 Italian general election was held on 4 March 2018 after the Italian Parliament was dissolved by President Sergio Mattarella on 28 December 2017.[1] Voters were electing the 630 members of the Chamber of Deputies and the 315 elective members of the Senate of the Republic for the 18th legislature of the Italian Republic since 1948. The election took place concurrently with the Lombard and Lazio regional elections.[2] No party or coalition gained an absolute majority in the parliament, even though the centre-right coalition won a plurality of seats as a coalition, and the Five Star Movement (M5S) won a plurality of seats as an individual party.[3]

The centre-right coalition, whose main party was the right-wing League led by Matteo Salvini, emerged with a plurality of seats in the Chamber of Deputies and in the Senate, while the anti-establishment M5S led by Luigi Di Maio became the party with the largest number of votes. The centre-left coalition, led by former Prime Minister Matteo Renzi of the governing Democratic Party (PD), came third;[4][5] however, no political group or party won an outright majority, resulting in a hung parliament.[3]

The 2018 Italian government formation lasted three months and the first Conte government was formed on 1 June between the M5S and the League, whose leaders both became deputy prime ministers in a populist coalition government led by the M5S-linked independent Giuseppe Conte as Prime Minister of Italy.[6] The 2019 Italian government crisis started when the League withdrew its support of the government and the coalition ended with Conte's resignation on 20 August.[7] A new M5S-led coalition was formed with the centre-left PD and the Free and Equal left-wing parliamentary group, with Conte at its head, on 5 September 2019.[8][9] Amid the 2021 Italian government crisis, the second Conte government was replaced by a national unity government headed by Mario Draghi.[10]


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  2. ^ "Election day il 4 marzo: si vota anche per Lazio e Lombardia". Il Messaggero (in Italian). 5 January 2018. Retrieved 18 February 2022.
  3. ^ a b "Italy election to result in hung parliament". Deutsche Welle. 5 March 2018. Retrieved 17 February 2022.
  4. ^ "Elezioni politiche: vincono M5s e Lega. Crollo del Partito democratico. Centrodestra prima coalizione. Il Carroccio sorpassa Forza Italia". La Repubblica (in Italian). 4 March 2018. Retrieved 17 February 2022.
  5. ^ Sala, Alessandro (3 April 2018). "Elezioni 2018: M5S primo partito, nel centrodestra la Lega supera FI". Corriere della Sera (in Italian). Retrieved 17 February 2022.
  6. ^ "Italy: Conte to lead 'government of change'" (in Italian). ANSAMed. 1 June 2018. Archived from the original on 25 February 2021. Retrieved 17 February 2022.
  7. ^ Giuffrida, Angela (20 August 2019). "Italian PM resigns with attack on 'opportunist' Salvini". The Guardian. Retrieved 17 February 2022.
  8. ^ Tidey, Alice (5 September 2019). "Conte PM & Di Maio foreign minister as new Italian government sworn in". Euronews. Retrieved 17 February 2022.
  9. ^ Fusaro, Carlo (22 September 2019). "Italia Viva, Party System Reform Morta: What Matteo Renzi's split from the PD means for democracy and stability in Italy and beyond". Verfassungsblog: On Matters Constitutional. doi:10.17176/20190922-232352-0. Retrieved 13 February 2022.
  10. ^ Pianta, Mario (April 2021). "Italy's Political Turmoil and Mario Draghi's European Challenges". Intereconomics. 56 (2): 82–85. doi:10.1007/s10272-021-0958-9. PMC 8021634. PMID 33840824. Retrieved 13 February 2022.

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