Italy Election Maps

[SPQR]

Why the high LN total in Taranto?

bumping this old fave' with an answer to this question:

There is some sort of Southern Action League (Ld'AzM), which is a fascist-mafioso outfit led by Giancarlo Cito. It had more success in the past (holding the single-member seat for Taranto 1994 to 2001) and has recently done a bit better. Cito is currently a deputy through a deal with the MPA, although ironically he's staunchly anti-LN.

I even made a map:

This is pretty common in Southern Italy.Parties that elsewhere are insignificant and are pretty much with no ideology get huge percentages,mostly by voting the friend of the cousin of your wife who promised you something,and so on...basically,there is no ideology behind that,just buying votes.

[Хahar 🤔]

That's because the Two Sicilies are part of Africa, of course.

[Verily]

Old-ish question: Why is Lucca so much more favorable to the right than the rest of Tuscany (and neighboring areas in Emilia-Romagna)?

[SPQR]

I've actually been to Lucca,but I still don't know.It seems like the typical Tuscany city...anyway it has voted center-left in the last few elections,unlike Prato,which elected for the first time a center-right mayor,mostly because of the anti-chinese wave (chinese population there is ridicolous because of all the textile industries)

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Map shows DC lead over FDP (and vice versa). Slightly daft, experimental colour scheme based around the fact that the DC's colour was white. Outline map rather obviously taken from this thread. Constituencies rather than provinces have been used because the online source for the latter isn't working.

[Keystone Phil]

It's amazing how such a beautiful place can be so scary politically.

[Хahar 🤔]

It's amazing how such a beautiful place can be so scary politically.

Have you ever been to Eastern Idaho?

[Hash]

The fact that the Interior Ministry's archive of elections has been done for like a week allows me to make a joke in bad taste.

[Keystone Phil]

It's amazing how such a beautiful place can be so scary politically.

Have you ever been to Eastern Idaho?

[Filuwaúrdjan]

It's up again now. So enjoy:



I will, of course, end up doing normal maps as well, but this idea fascinated me.

Anyway, there were issues with data breakdowns in a couple of places (not hard to tell which), but, meh.

[Keystone Phil]

Hmmm...I wonder what's the deal with northern Puglia. Bari is further south so there goes the only explanation I can think of.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Those maps are really great ! Especially for someone like me who knows almost nothing about Italian political geography...

[Keystone Phil]

Those maps are really great ! Especially for someone who knows almost nothing about Italian political geography... :¨P

Maybe you can satisfy my curiosity, noted in the post above yours. 

[Antonio the Sixth]

Those maps are really great ! Especially for someone who knows almost nothing about Italian political geography... :¨P

Maybe you can satisfy my curiosity, noted in the post above yours. 

LOL No, I meant myself.

[Keystone Phil]

Those maps are really great ! Especially for someone who knows almost nothing about Italian political geography... :¨P

Maybe you can satisfy my curiosity, noted in the post above yours. 

LOL No, I meant myself.

Oh, ok.    Well, any chance you happen to know the answer anyway?

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Well, that province is Foggia. Radical agricultural labourers, maybe?

[Keystone Phil]

Well, that province is Foggia. Radical agricultural labourers, maybe?

Hmmm...I forgot about that. Makes sense.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

take that insomnia!

[Verily]

Still hoping for an explanation on Lucca, which really stands out on the 1948 map.

[Хahar 🤔]

The extent to which the Commies and the dissident Socialists did best in different  places is really interesting.

[Iannis]

Still hoping for an explanation on Lucca, which really stands out on the 1948 map.

My personal opinion. Lucca's importance declined after XV century, and was shadowed by Florence, or Livorno importance. It was not a merchants or handicrafts' center like the other cities. No rich bankers. Probably the only important element remained the church, and a petty bourgeoise, add the rural environment and you have a conservative approach. Maybe.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

So the Catholic Church was stronger there than the rest of Tuscany? That would explain most of it I think.

[Hash]

Still hoping for an explanation on Lucca, which really stands out on the 1948 map.

My personal opinion. Lucca's importance declined after XV century, and was shadowed by Florence, or Livorno importance. It was not a merchants or handicrafts' center like the other cities. No rich bankers. Probably the only important element remained the church, and a petty bourgeoise, add the rural environment and you have a conservative approach. Maybe.

Rural Tuscany was not conservative.

[Keystone Phil]

I'm not too familiar with Italian politics before the 1980s. Could someone explain the US, BN and PNM?

[Hash]

I'm not too familiar with Italian politics before the 1980s. Could someone explain the US, BN and PNM?

The US was basically what later became the PSDI, and was a right-wing splinter of the Socialists opposed to the FDP coalition. It went on to become a corrupt machine party allied with the DC. 

The BN was a one-election between two southern based parties, the 'Poujadist' (before its time) Uomo Qualunque Front and the Liberal Party. The Liberals were a corrupt right-wing party, and the party of the old southern elite. Later on, its vote shifted towards the north and weakened in the south (the opposite of what happened to the PSI).

The PNM were monarchists.