2013 Italian general election

2013 Italian general election

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All 630 seats in the Chamber of Deputies 316 seats needed for a majority All 315 elective seats in the Senate 160 seats needed for a majority[a]
Opinion polls
Registered	46,905,154 (C) · 42,270,824 (S)
Turnout	35,270,926 (C) · 75.2% (5.3 pp) 31,751,350 (S) · 75.1% (5.3 pp)
First party Second party   Leader Pier Luigi Bersani Silvio Berlusconi Party Democratic Party People of Freedom Alliance Italy. Common Good Centre-right coalition Leader since 2 December 2012 18 January 1994 Leader's seat Lombardy 1 (C)[1] Molise (S)[2] Seats won 345 (C) / 123 (S) 125 (C) / 117 (S) Seat change 134 (C) / 7 (S) 219 (C) / 57 (S) Coalition vote 10,049,393 (C) 9,685,437 (S) 9,923,600 (C) 9,405,652 (S) Percentage 29.6% (C) 31.6% (S) 29.2% (C) 30.7% (S) Swing 7.9 pp (C) 6.4 pp (S) 17.6 pp (C) 16.6 pp (S)   Third party Fourth party   Leader Beppe Grillo Mario Monti Party Five Star Movement Civic Choice Alliance — With Monti for Italy Leader since 4 October 2009 28 December 2012 Leader's seat Did not run Did not run[b] Seats won 109 (C) / 54 (S) 47 (C) / 19 (S) Seat change New party New alliance Coalition vote 8,691,406 (C) 7,286,550 (S) 3,591,541 (C) 2,797,486 (S) Percentage 25.6% (C) 23.8% (S) 10.6% (C) 9.1% (S) Swing New party New alliance
Election results maps for the Chamber of Deputies (on the left) and for the Senate (on the right). On the left, the color identifies the coalition which received the most votes in each province. On the right, the color identifies the coalition which won the most seats in respect to each Region. Red denotes Centre-left coalitions, Blue the Centre-right coalition, Yellow the Five Star Movement, and Light Blue the Aosta Valley regional coalition.
Prime Minister before election Mario Monti Independent Prime Minister after the election Enrico Letta Democratic Party

The 2013 Italian general election was held on 24 and 25 February 2013 to determine the 630 members of the Chamber of Deputies and the 315 elective members of the Senate of the Republic for the 17th Italian Parliament.^[3][4][5] The centre-left alliance Italy Common Good, led by the Democratic Party (PD), obtained a clear majority of seats in the Chamber of Deputies thanks to a majority bonus that effectively trebled the number of seats assigned to the winning force and narrowly defeated the centre-right alliance of former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi in the popular vote. Close behind, the new anti-establishment Five Star Movement of comedian Beppe Grillo became the third force, well ahead of the centrist coalition of outgoing Prime Minister Mario Monti. In the Senate, no political group or party won an outright majority, resulting in a hung parliament.^[6][7]

In April 2013 a grand coalition was formed, consisting of Italy Common Good, the Berlusconi coalition and the centrists.^[8] Berlusconi and his allies withdrew support of the coalition and formed a new Forza Italia six months later, which meant that the PD dominated the government coalition until the 2018 Italian general election.

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