1924 Italian general election

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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 69 New Popular vote 4,653,488 645,789 422,957 Percentage 64.94% 9.01% 5.90% Swing New 11.38pp 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.