1924 Italian general election

1924 Italian general election

← 1921 6 April 1924 1929 →

All 535 seats in the Chamber of Deputies
268 seats needed for a majority
  Majority party Minority party Third party
 
Leader Benito Mussolini Alcide De Gasperi Giacomo Matteotti
Party National List PPI Unitary Socialist Party
Seats won 374 39 24
Seat change New Decrease69 New
Popular vote 4,653,488 645,789 422,957
Percentage 64.94% 9.01% 5.90%
Swing New Decrease11.38pp New

Prime Minister before election

Benito Mussolini
National Fascist Party

Elected Prime Minister

Benito Mussolini
National Fascist Party

General elections were held in Italy on 6 April 1924 to elect the members of the Chamber of Deputies.[1] They were held two years after the March on Rome, in which Benito Mussolini's National Fascist Party rose to power, and under the controversial Acerbo Law, which stated that the party with the largest share of the votes would automatically receive two-thirds of the seats in Parliament as long as they received over 25% of the vote.[2]

Mussolini's National List (an alliance of Catholic, liberal, and conservative political parties) used intimidation tactics against voters,[2] resulting in a landslide victory and a subsequent two-thirds majority. This was the country's last multi-party election until the 1946 Italian general election.

  1. ^ Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p1047 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
  2. ^ a b Nohlen & Stöver, p1033