Elections in Italy gives information on election and election results in Italy. An election is a decision making process whereby people vote for preferred political candidates or parties to act as representatives in government. ...

Italy elects on national level a legislature. The president is elected for a seven year term by an electoral college. Parliament (Parlamento) has two chambers. The Chamber of Deputies (Camera dei Deputati) has 630 members, elected for a five year term, 475 members in single-seat constituencies and 155 members by proportional representation. The Senate of the Republic (Senato della Repubblica) has 326 members, elected for a five year term, 232 members in single-seat constituencies, 83 members by proportional representation and 5 senators for life. Italy has a two-coalition system, which means that there are two dominant political coalitions, with extreme difficulty for anybody to achieve electoral success under the banner of any other party. Inside the system numerous parties operate and no one party often a chance of gaining power alone, and parties must work with each other to form coalition governments. Chamber of the Estates-General, the Dutch legislature. ... The Parliament of Italy (Italian: Parlamento Italiano) is the national parliament of Italy. ... In government, bicameralism is the practice of having two legislative or parliamentary chambers. ... Chamber of Deputies or Camera dei Deputati, one house of the bicameral parliamentary system, seats 630 members of which 475 are directly elected and 155 by regional proportional representation. ... A constituency (often called ridings)is any cohesive corporate unit or body bound by shared structures, goals or loyalty. ... Proportional representation (PR) is any election system which ensures a proportionally representative result of a democratic election, x% of votes should be represented by x% in the democratic institutions, parliament or congress. ... The Italian Senate (Italian: Senato della Repubblica, Senate of the Republic) is the upper house of the Parliament of Italy. ... A constituency (often called ridings)is any cohesive corporate unit or body bound by shared structures, goals or loyalty. ... Proportional representation (PR) is any election system which ensures a proportionally representative result of a democratic election, x% of votes should be represented by x% in the democratic institutions, parliament or congress. ... A two-party system is a type of party system where only two political parties have a realistic chance of winning an election. ... A political party is a political organization subscribing to a certain ideology or formed around very special issues. ... A political party is a political organization subscribing to a certain ideology or formed around very special issues. ... A coalition government, or coalition cabinet, is a cabinet in parliamentary government in which several parties cooperate. ...

Last elections

Provincial Elections in Sardinia, First Round, May 8 and 9, 2005

Past elections

Regional Election of Basilicata, April 17 and 18, 2005

Note: The Socialist Party New PSI, member of right-wing House of Freedoms, presented a own candidate for the Basilicata election. The Partito Socialista – Nuovo PSI is a small Italian party which professes a socialist ideology and claims to be the successor to the old Italian Socialist Party, which was disbanded after an impressive series of corruption scandals of the early 1990s (see Mani Pulite). ...

Regional Elections, April 3 and 4, 2005

Note: The Communist Refoundation Party presented its own candidate in Tuscany, even though if it is full member of left-wing coalition The Union, as well as what Socialist Party New PSI, member of right-wing House of Freedoms, did in Umbria. Umbria is a mountainous region of central Italy, in the valley of the river Tiber. ... Luca Romagnoli Luca Romagnoli (born on 12 September 1961 in Roma) is a Italian politician and Member of the European Parliament for Southern with the Fiamma Tricolore, and is therefore a Non-Inscrit in the European Parliament. ... This article refers to the Italian region. ... Latium (Lazio in Italian) is a region of central Italy, bordered by Tuscany, Umbria, Abruzzo, Molise, Campania and the Tyrrhenian Sea. ... Alessandra Mussolini (born December 30, 1962) is an Italian (former?) actress, has a degree in Medicine and Surgery (1992), [1], and is currently a right wing politician. ... Abruzzo, (also known as Abruzzi, an older obsolete plural denomination) is a region of southern Italy, formerly a part of the Abruzzi e Molise region (with Molise). ... Ottaviano Del Turco (born November 7, 1944 in Collelongo) was an Italian Member of the European Parliament. ... Campania is a region of Southern Italy, bordering on Lazio to the north-west, Molise to the north, Puglia to the north-east, Basilicata to the east, and the Tyrrhenian Sea to the west. ... Alessandra Mussolini (born December 30, 1962) is an Italian (former?) actress, has a degree in Medicine and Surgery (1992), [1], and is currently a right wing politician. ... Apulia (official Italian name: Puglia) is a region in southeastern Italy bordering the Adriatic Sea in the east, the Ionian Sea to the southeast, and the Strait of Otranto and Gulf of Taranto in the south. ... Nicola Vendola (born 26 August 1958 in Terlizzi, Bari), commonly known as Nichi, is a Italian politician and President of the Apulia region. ... Calabria, formerly Brutium, is a region in southern Italy which occupies the toe of the Italian peninsula south of Naples. ... The Communist Refoundation Party (Italian: Partito della Rifondazione Comunista) is an Italian reformed communist party. ... The Partito Socialista – Nuovo PSI is a small Italian party which professes a socialist ideology and claims to be the successor to the old Italian Socialist Party, which was disbanded after an impressive series of corruption scandals of the early 1990s (see Mani Pulite). ...

See also

• Electoral calendar
• Electoral system

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External links

• Electionworld
• Adam Carr's Election Archive
• Parties and elections
• Ministry of Internal Affairs of Italy - Page on Elections (in Italian)