1913 Italian general election

1913 Italian general election
← 1909 26 October 1913 (first round)
2 November 1913 (second round)		 1919 →
All 508 seats in the Chamber of Deputies
255 seats needed for a majority
  Majority party Minority party Third party
 
Leader Giovanni Giolitti Costantino Lazzari Ettore Sacchi
Party Liberal Union PSI Radical Party
Seats won 270 52 62
Seat change Decrease59 Increase11 Increase14
Popular vote 2,387,947 883,409 522,522
Percentage 47.62% 17.62% 10.42%
Swing Decrease6.83pp Decrease1.40pp Increase0.50pp
Prime Minister before election

Giovanni Giolitti
Liberal Union

Elected Prime Minister

Giovanni Giolitti
Liberal Union

General elections were held in Italy on 26 October 1913, with a second round of voting on 2 November.[1] The Liberals (the former Ministeriali) narrowly retained an absolute majority in the Chamber of Deputies, while the Radical Party emerged as the largest opposition bloc. Both groupings did particularly well in Southern Italy, while the Italian Socialist Party gained eight seats and was the largest party in Emilia-Romagna.[2] However, the election marked the beginning of the decline of Liberal establishment.

There were episodes of violence during the election.[3]

  1. ^ Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p1047 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
  2. ^ Piergiorgio Corbetta; Maria Serena Piretti, Atlante storico-elettorale d'Italia, Zanichelli, Bologna 2009
  3. ^ Hershey, Amos S. (1914). "The Recent Italian Elections". American Political Science Review. 8 (1): 50–56. doi:10.2307/1945387. ISSN 0003-0554. JSTOR 1945387.