1994 Italian general election

1994 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
163 seats needed for a majority[a]
Registered48,135,041 (C) · 41,795,730 (S)
Turnout41,546,290 (C) · 86.3% (Decrease1.1 pp)
35,873,375 (S) · 85.8% (Decrease1.0 pp)
  First party Second party Third party
 
Silvio Berlusconi 1994 (cropped).jpg
Achille Occhetto.jpg
Mariotto Segni 1994.jpg
Leader Silvio Berlusconi Achille Occhetto Mario Segni
Party Forza Italia PDS Segni Pact
Alliance PdL – PdBG Progressives Pact for Italy
Leader since 18 January 1994 21 June 1988[b] 5 January 1994
Leader's seat Roma Centrale (C) Borgo Panigale (C) Sardegna (C)[c]
Seats won 366 (C) / 156 (S) 213 (C) / 122 (S) 46 (C) / 31 (S)
Constituency vote 17,746,612 (C)
14,110,705 (S) 		12.632,680 (C)
10,881,320 (S) 		6,019,038 (C)
5,519,090 (S)
% and swing 46.1% (C)
42.6% (S) 		32.8% (C)
32.9% (S) 		15.6% (C)
16.7% (S)
Party vote 16,585,516 (C) 13,308,244 (C) 6,098,986 (C)
% and swing 42.8% (C) 34.3% (C) 15.8% (C)
Results of the single-member constituencies in the Chamber of Deputies (left) and Senate (right).
Prime Minister before election

Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
Independent

Prime Minister after the election

Silvio Berlusconi
Forza Italia

The 1994 Italian general election was held on 27 and 28 March 1994 to elect members of the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate of the Republic for the 12th legislature. Silvio Berlusconi's centre-right coalition won a large majority in the Chamber of Deputies but just missed winning a majority in the Senate.

The Italian People's Party, the renamed Christian Democracy (DC), which had dominated Italian politics for almost half a century, was decimated. It took only 29 seats versus 206 for the DC two years earlier—easily the worst defeat a sitting government in Italy has ever suffered, and one of the worst ever suffered by a Western European governing party.
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