1968 Italian general election

1968 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 162 seats needed for a majority[a]
Registered	35,566,493 (C) · 32,517,638 (S)
Turnout	33,001,644 (C) · 92.8% (0.1 pp) 30,252,921 (S) · 93.0% (0.1 pp)
Majority party Minority party Third party   Leader Mariano Rumor Luigi Longo Francesco De Martino[c] Party DC PCI Unified Socialist Leader since 27 January 1964 22 August 1964 12 December 1963 Leader's seat Verona (C) Milan (C) Naples (C) Seats won 266 (C) / 135 (S) 177 (C) / 101 (S)[b] 91 (C) / 46 (S) Seat change 6 (C) / 6 (S) 11 (C) / 17 (S) 29 (C) / 12 (S) Popular vote 12,441,553 (C) 10,972,114 (S) 8,557,404 (C) 8,585,601 (S)[b] 4,605,832 (C) 4,354,906 (S) Percentage 39.1% (C) 38.3% (S) 26.9% (C) 30.0% (S)[b] 14.5% (C) 15.2% (S) Swing 0.8 pp (C) 1.8 pp (S) 1.6 pp (C) 6.5 pp (S) 5.5 pp (C)[d] 5.1 pp (S)[d]   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Leader Giovanni Malagodi Arturo Michelini Tullio Vecchietti Party PLI MSI PSIUP Leader since 4 April 1954 10 October 1954 12 January 1964 Leader's seat Milan (C) Rome (C) Rome (C) Seats won 31 (C) / 16 (S) 24 (C) / 11 (S) 23 (C) / w. PCI (S) Seat change 8 (C) / 2 (S) 3 (C) / 3 (S) New party Popular vote 1,850,650 (C) 1,943,795 (S) 1,414,036 (C) 1,304,847 (S) 1,414,697 (C) w. PCI (S) Percentage 5.1% (C) 6.8% (S) 4.5% (C) 4.6% (S) 4.5% (C) w. PCI (S) Swing 1.2 pp (C) 0.6 pp (S) 0.6 pp (C) 0.7 pp (S) New party
Results of the election in the Chamber and Senate.
Prime Minister before election Aldo Moro DC Prime Minister after the election Giovanni Leone DC

The 1968 Italian general election was held in Italy on 19 May 1968.^[1] The Christian Democracy (DC) remained stable around 38% of the votes. They were marked by a victory of the Communist Party (PCI) passing from 25% of 1963 to c. 30% at the Senate, where it presented jointly with the new Italian Socialist Party of Proletarian Unity (PSIUP), which included members of Socialist Party (PSI) which disagreed the latter's alliance with DC. PSIUP gained c. 4.5% at the Chamber. The Socialist Party and the Democratic Socialist Party (PSDI) presented together as the Unified PSI–PSDI, but gained c. 15%, far less than the sum of what the two parties had obtained separately in 1963.

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