Italian Election Series - 1952 General Elections

[Wake Me Up When The Hard Border Ends]

Terrible election laws. Monarchist as always.

[Antonio the Sixth]

People seem to be forgetting that the PSDI quickly turned into an arch-corrupt right-wing party in RL.

Quickly?  What specifically did they do?

Well, I think the transformation had much to do with DC's influence and the fact that other coalition parties were basically its whores. As IRL, the government parties will probably become utterly corrupt throughout the 1960s and 1970s in this TL. However, considering the rather left-wing political balance, I don't think that PSDI is at immediate risk of becoming as right-wing as it was IRL.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Damn.  One would think that the PSI would fit fine with the PSDI and Pd'Az at least economically.  Seems like foreign policy would be the only really divisive issue.

Yeah, that's the big problem at this point in time. There is no way the PSI can accept adhesion to NATO and alignment with the US on foreign policy. Things will be different in the 1960s (as they did IRL, mind you).

[Antonio the Sixth]

Bump.

Come on people! We're 3 votes below 1946 turnout and 9 votes behind 1948!

[politicus]

Bump.

Come on people! We're 3 votes below 1946 turnout and 9 votes behind 1948!

Don't be greedy 30+ should be enough.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Bump.

Come on people! We're 3 votes below 1946 turnout and 9 votes behind 1948!

Don't be greedy 30+ should be enough.

I know, I just don't like losing voters along the way...

[Peter the Lefty]

Well, at least it would appear that we won't need the Monarchists in the next government.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Well, at least it would appear that we won't need the Monarchists in the next government.

On the downside, for the first time the aggregated right has more votes than the aggregated left.

[Antonio the Sixth]

OK, last bump. 16 hours or so left to vote.

[DC Al Fine]

Well, at least it would appear that we won't need the Monarchists in the next government.

On the downside, for the first time the aggregated right has more votes than the aggregated left.

That's what happens with trolls. Christian Democrats + Liberals + Monarchists is par for the course for the right.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Well, at least it would appear that we won't need the Monarchists in the next government.

On the downside, for the first time the aggregated right has more votes than the aggregated left.

That's what happens with trolls. Christian Democrats + Liberals + Monarchists is par for the course for the right.

Well, MSI is actually down from the last election. PLI and PNM are really doing great this time around. And DC's decline is not as big as it might have seemed initially.

[Goldwater]

Well, at least it would appear that we won't need the Monarchists in the next government.

On the downside, for the first time the aggregated right has more votes than the aggregated left.

YAY!

[Antonio the Sixth]

Well, at least it would appear that we won't need the Monarchists in the next government.

On the downside, for the first time the aggregated right has more votes than the aggregated left.

YAY!

It's 18-18 now.

Still, a good result for you guys. Is it just luck or a lasting trend? We'll see soon!

[politicallefty]

Democratic Socialist.

[Antonio the Sixth]

PSDI: 20.7% (+9.3), 163 seats (+100)
PLI: 15.4% (+4.2), 116 seats (+52)
PNM: 12.7% (+1.6), 59 seats (-7)
PCI: 10.6%, 49 seats (-32)
PSI: 10.5%, 42 seats (+9)
MSI: 10.1% (-3.2), 43 seats (-32)
DC: 9.9% (-1.9), 68 seats (+4)
Pd'Az: 7.4% (-13.1), 47 seats (-75)
Others: 2.7%, 3 seats

The election saw the brutal and unforeseen collapse of the Action Party, which in only four years fell from the first to the eighth place and was nearly wiped off the map. Similarly, DC lost votes for the third time in a row, falling below 10%. This failure of the two most "central" and cooperative members of the coalition was mirrored by a success of its more extreme "wings": the socialist (though not marxist) PSDI, and the economically conservative PLI. PSDI swept Northern Italy, emerging ahead in regions where Pd'Az had polled well in the past. PLI was penalized by the fact that its vote share was fairly evenly distributed throughout the country. Some of its more conservative voters actually switched to the monarchists, which swept the South - although this loss was largely compensated by an influx of moderate voters in the north. The two marxist parties recovered somewhat from the FDP disaster, with PSI almost returning to its 1946 level and managing to come ahead in two constituencies. PCI's result was pretty disappointing though, as the party barely outpolled the PSI, and only held its ground in the reddest parts of the red regions of the centre. MSI also somewhat declined, but still came first in Latium. With 53.4% of the votes, the coalition unlocked the majority bonus and was awarded two thirds of the seats, which resulted in a significant overrepresentation of its parties.

[Zuza]

What party won Sardinia? Pd'Az?

[Antonio the Sixth]

What party won Sardinia? Pd'Az?

Yeah, Pd'Az. The party here benefits from its favorite son Emilio Lussu (IRL, Lussu split from the Action Party and formed the Sardinian Action Party, which for some years was quite successful locally).