Italy Election Maps

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2008 senate by province (except Trentino-Alto Adige, which uses a weird system).



same election, vote for Lega Nord and MPA

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Why the high LN total in Taranto?

That was MPA, not Lega Nord.

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Lol do those Germans wanna join Austria or something? and what about that little yellow corner in the northwest. are they French or something?

The major party in the South Tyrol province of Trentino-Alto Adige is the Südtiroler Volkspartei. The SVP doesn't really want to join Austria IIRC. There is a smaller party, the Union for South Tyrol, that is nationalist.

Vallee d'Aoste is a Francophone minority region where the two biggest parties are local French parties (one more conservative, the other more liberal). National parties aren't strong in South Tyrol and Aoste.

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Current regional governments



the 2005 Regional elections



to compare with 2000



Some past Senate maps coming up.

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2006 Senate, by province (I counted SVP within the Union this time. That region is a real dilemma in every map)



2001 Senate



1996 Senate (which party polled the most %. In some regions that party didn't necessarily win the most seats)



and 1976 Senate (best PCI result, 33%)



Blue is DC, red is PCI o/c.

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1994 Senate. Same note for '96 applies here, o/c.



1992 Senate. Blue is DC, red is PDS (Democratic Party of the Left, the democratic-socialist thingee coming out of the PCI).



1987 Senate

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Supposedly (of my half italianess) I am mostly Roman, and a little bit Calabrian and wherever Milan is (Lombardi?)


How did those regions go...I can assume Rome is in Green...my geographic skills aren't that bad.

Calabria voted PdL, but isn't a right-wing stronghold like Sicily is. Lombardy is a right-wing stronghold, with the Lega Nord polling a respectable second (either high teens or 20s). Milan is also right-wing, but I don't recall the right breaking 60% there recently. The province of Rome is left-wing, as is the city generally (despite it electing a neo-fascist in 2008). The other parts of Lazio are right-wing.

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1946 referendum on the monarchy. Red for republic, purple for monarchy.



1953 Senate election, in which the monarchists got their best result (7.1%)

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Italians abroad vote in Europe and surrounding regions



I'll do the Americas next.

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Some good news and bad news for you, Phil

Senate:



Deputies, Europe:



Deputies, World:




Notes on South America: Yellow is for the Italian Associations in South America and red is for the Associative Movement Italians Abroad. Those two thingees don't exist in other continents.

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Phil won't like this map.

2004 EU parliament by region. Italy uses, like France, stupid constituencies.

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The 1994 EU election, in which FI got its best result as a party (running alone). Red is PDS.

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Some good news and bad news for you, Phil

Eh. I'm confused though. In the Senate elections here, the PdL candidate (a guy from Philadelphia actually named Berardi) won.

His constituency represents all of North America and Central America. His huge majorities down in Central America, and his victory in Canada carried him over. The PdL didn't win any awful lot though, he won 45.1-43.9.

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2004 EU parliament by region. Italy uses, like France, stupid constituencies.

I don't understand the color representation. Please explain. 

Red = Left

Though frankly, the left won in all regions because the right was more fragmented than the left. FI polled 20%, the fascists polled 11.5%, DC junior won 5.9%, and the Northern Fascists won 5.0% etc. The Olive Tree polled 31%.

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the right was more fragmented than the right

Really? That must have been quite a feat.

Indeed it was.

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Red = Left

Though frankly, the left won in all regions because the right was more fragmented than the left. FI polled 20%, the fascists polled 11.5%, DC junior won 5.9%, and the Northern Fascists won 5.0% etc. The Olive Tree polled 31%.

I figured but the right didn't win anywhere? Wow.

IIRC, the Northern Fascists prevented them to win in the north, the Fascists prevented them to win anything in the Lazio area, and the DC junior gang prevented them to win Sicily etc.

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That 1946 referendum map was interesting. I know the South was much more rural and backward than the north (no offense Phil), is that the reason they supported the monarchy or was there another reason?

Correct. I recall reading somewhere that educated people supported the Republic.

in regard to the European Election,now there are going to be either 5 or a few more constituences in place of the old 3.

There are already five constituencies, and, IIRC, have been in use for quite some time.

The bottom line is that these EU constituencies are horrible.

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Only now have they started complaining about Garibaldi with their leader,Sicily's governor,who has said he will remove anything remembering Garibaldi as a hero.But,I repeat,they are just a southern-based modern DC.

The Sicilian Governor really wants to remove anything memorializing Garibaldi? Disgusting. Good luck with that one.

Isn't he also with the mafia or something, IIRC?

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Only now have they started complaining about Garibaldi with their leader,Sicily's governor,who has said he will remove anything remembering Garibaldi as a hero.But,I repeat,they are just a southern-based modern DC.

The Sicilian Governor really wants to remove anything memorializing Garibaldi? Disgusting. Good luck with that one.

Isn't he also with the mafia or something, IIRC?

The Sicilian Governor? I don't know. I think Berlusconi was all about him and the guy is from a right wing party so he was fine with me... 

Despite his nickname being the Southern Umberto Bossi? (though, frankly, he's much less dangerous and his MPA is a joke party).

BTW, anybody have requests for any maps?

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The 5 constituencies are North-West, North-East, Central, Southern, and Islands.

They should get a national constituency will a 5 or 3% threshold for seats, like France had before we got this awful system.

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BTW, anybody have requests for any maps?

I was reading through this thread and wanted to take you up on this half year old favor. 

Any information on the 1983 General election?

Here is the 1983 election for the Deputies by province. Quite an interesting map.



Standard key: DC blue, PCI red.

Any specific reason for your interest in 1983?

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Any specific reason for your interest in 1983?

Trying to find out which horrible areas helped Craxi become Italy's second longest Prime Minister. 

The blue areas of course, since the PCI didn't participate in Craxi's governments.

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Any specific reason for your interest in 1983?

Trying to find out which horrible areas helped Craxi become Italy's second longest Prime Minister. 

The blue areas of course, since the PCI didn't participate in Craxi's governments.

Hmmm...explain further. I thought this election led to Craxi's election as Prime Minister.

It did. However, Craxi's coalition was composed of DC, PSI, PRI, PSDI and the PLI.

The PCI never participated in an Italian government save for those immediately post-war (de Gasperi I, de Gasperi II), during the Constituent Assembly period. They were almost exclusively an opposition party.

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A map of the 2006 referendum on constitutional reforms. Obviously defeated, it would have given more powers to the PM and to the regions. It was openly supported by the Lega Nord, and only reluctantly supported by most FI/AN MPs, because Bossi had made his continued support of Berlusconi's government dependent on a referendum on the thing. However, the referendum was held after Berlusconi's defeat in 2006.



5 regions have a special status: they keep a majority of taxes, but they finance healthcare, infrastructure, and education. These 5 regions are the two islands, the Francophone Aoste, the German Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol, and Friuli-Venezia-Giulia (with a Slovene, German, and Venetian-Friulian linguistic minority).

The other regions have held regional elections since 1970. It looks like the current system of regional elections with a vote for President, a vote for regional council, and the presence of electoral coalitions dates back to 1995. Before that, the President was elected when the legislature met. Therefore, from '70 to '95, in some cases, the President is from a different party than the top vote getter. Wikipedia has a list of regional presidents if anyone is interested.

1970



1975



1980



1985



1990



1995



2000



2005 is posted earlier in this thread. The next elections are in 2010.

Two regions, Molise and Abruzzo are now dis-synchronized. In 2000, the regional election in Molise was invalidated due to irregularities and the right won the new election in 2001 by a landslide. It was re-elected in 2006.

Abruzzo's left-wing President resigned facing corruption charges in 2008, and the right won the 2008 regional election. Next election is in 2013, IIRC.

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Some older maps, first in a series of maps showing % vote for various parties (PCI, PSI, PSDI, PLI, PRI, Radicals, AN, DC/PPI/UDC, PRI) by Camera constituency.

Firstly, an interesting comparison between the 1958 PSI and 1987 PSI (they polled roughly the same amount, 14%).





Now, for the charming neo-fascists. 1996, where they polled nearly 15%. In Lazio I, aka Rome, they pulled 30%. Excuse me while I barf.

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Some parts of central Italy are just so disgusting politically speaking.

Lazio? They love some AN, since they regret the days of Mussolini, who promoted Rome and Lazio.