1987 Italian Senate election in Lombardy

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1987 Italian Senate election in Lombardy

← 1983 June 14, 1987 1992 →

All 48 Lombard seats to the Italian Senate
  Majority party Minority party Third party
 
Leader Ciriaco De Mita Alessandro Natta Bettino Craxi
Party DC PCI PSI
Last election 34.4%, 17 seats 28.5%, 15 seats 12.1%, 6 seats
Seats won 18 12 8
Seat change Increase1 Decrease3 Increase2
Popular vote 1,845,626 1,319,356 901,296
Percentage 34.4% 24.6% 16.8%
Swing = Decrease3.9% Increase4.7%

Old local plurality before election

DC

New local plurality

DC

Lombardy elected its tenth delegation to the Italian Senate on June 14, 1987. This election was a part of national Italian general election of 1987 even if, according to the Italian Constitution, every senatorial challenge in each Region is a single and independent race.

The election was won by the centrist Christian Democracy, as it happened at national level. Seven Lombard provinces gave a majority or at least a plurality to the winning party, while the agricultural Province of Pavia and Province of Mantua preferred the Italian Communist Party.

Background[edit]

Bettino Craxi's Italian Socialist Party reduced its gap with the Italian Communist Party after Enrico Berlinguer's death. Later after the USSR end the PCI lost his leftist wing, including senators Armando Cossutta and Luigi Meriggi, which created the Communist Refoundation Party. Many minor parties obtained a seat: between them, for the first time, Umberto Bossi's Lega Lombarda (Lega Nord since 1991).

Electoral system[edit]

The electoral system for the Senate was a strange hybrid which established a form of proportional representation into FPTP-like constituencies. A candidate needed a landslide victory of more than 65% of votes to obtain a direct mandate. All constituencies where this result was not reached entered into an at-large calculation based upon the D'Hondt method to distribute the seats between the parties, and candidates with the best percentages of suffrages inside their party list were elected.

Results[edit]

Party votes votes (%) seats swing
Christian Democracy 1,845,626 34.4 18 Increase1
Italian Communist Party 1,319,356 24.6 12 Decrease3
Italian Socialist Party 901,296 16.8 8 Increase2
Italian Social Movement 249,470 4.7 2 =
Italian Republican Party 217,157 4.1 2 Decrease1
Federation of Green Lists 139,573 2.6 1 Increase1
Lega Lombarda 137,276 2.6 1 Increase1
Radical Party 133,181 2.5 1 =
Italian Democratic Socialist Party 127,828 2.4 1 Decrease1
Italian Liberal Party 124,418 2.3 1 Decrease1
Proletarian Democracy 108,990 2.0 1 Increase1
Others 56,617 1.1 - =
Total parties 5,360,788 100.0 48 =

Sources: Italian Ministry of the Interior

Constituencies[edit]

Constituency Elected Party Votes % Others
1 Bergamo Severino Citaristi Christian Democracy 46.1%
2 Clusone Enzo Berlanda Christian Democracy 52.0%
3 Treviglio Gilberto Bonalumi Christian Democracy 46.4%
4 Brescia Guido Carli Christian Democracy 38.9%
5 Breno Franco Salvi
Vittorio Marniga
Christian Democracy
Italian Socialist Party
45.0%
20.3%
6 Chiari Giovanni Prandini Christian Democracy 47.7%
7 Salò Elio Fontana Christian Democracy 41.2%
8 Como Gianfranco Aliverti Christian Democracy 34.7%
9 Lecco Cesare Golfari Christian Democracy 40.9% Pietro Fiocchi (PLI) 5.9%
10 Cantù Giuseppe Guzzetti Christian Democracy 41.0%
11 Cremona Ernesto Vercesi
Renzo Antoniazzi
Christian Democracy
Italian Communist Party
34.6%
32.7%
12 Crema Francesco Rebecchini Christian Democracy 41.7%
13 Mantua Cirillo Bonora
Giuseppe Chiarante
Christian Democracy
Italian Communist Party
33.1%
32.0%
14 Ostiglia Maurizio Lotti
Gino Scevarolli
Italian Communist Party
Italian Socialist Party
40.3%
17.8%
15 Milan 1 Giovanni Spadolini
Giovanni Malagodi
Italian Republican Party
Italian Liberal Party
12.5%
8.3%
16 Milan 2 Giorgio Pisanò Italian Social Movement 8.2%
17 Milan 3 Giorgio Covi
Franco Corleone
Pier Giorgio Sirtori
Guido Pollice
Italian Republican Party
Radical Party
Federation of Green Lists
Proletarian Democracy
8.9%
4.1%
4.0%
3.1%
Bruno Pellegrino (PSI) 17.4%
18 Milan 4 Alfredo Mantica Italian Social Movement 7.5%
19 Milan 5 Guido Rossi
Michele Achilli

Unconstitutional result [1]
Italian Communist Party (Gsi)
Italian Socialist Party

26.2%
19.3%
3.5%


seat ceded to Pollice
20 Milan 6 Giorgio Strehler
Giorgio Ruffolo
Italian Communist Party (Gsi)
Italian Socialist Party
28.3%
20.0%
21 Abbiategrasso Massimo Riva
Achille Cutrera
Italian Communist Party (Gsi)
Italian Socialist Party
29.4%
18.3%
22 Rho Rodolfo Bollini
Antonio Natali
Italian Communist Party
Italian Socialist Party
31.2%
18.3%
23 Monza None elected Walter Fontana (DC) 32.8%
Andrea Margheri (PCI) 25.1%
24 Vimercate Luigi Granelli
Giovanna Senesi
Guido Gerosa
Christian Democracy
Italian Communist Party
Italian Socialist Party
34.6%
26.8%
17.8%
25 Lodi Alfredo Diana
Antonio Taramelli
Christian Democracy
Italian Communist Party
34.0%
33.0%
26 Pavia Antonio Giolitti Italian Communist Party (Gsi) 31.4% Mario Viganò (DC) 30.8%
27 Voghera Giovanni Azzaretti
Luigi Meriggi
Christian Democracy
Italian Communist Party
34.0%
28.2%
28 Vigevano Armando Cossutta Italian Communist Party 37.2%
29 Sondrio Vittorino Colombo
Francesco Forte
Giampaolo Bissi
Christian Democracy
Italian Socialist Party
Italian Democratic Socialist Party
42.7%
19.8%
6.8%
30 Varese Umberto Bossi Lombard League 7.0% Maria Paola Colombo (DC) 31.0%
Giovanni Valcavi (PSI) 17.9%
31 Busto Arsizio Augusto Rezzonico Christian Democracy 34.6%
  • No senator obtained a direct mandate. Please remember that the electoral system was, in the other cases, a form of proportional representation and not a FPTP race: so candidates winning with a simple plurality could have (and usually had) a candidate (usually a Christian democrat) with more votes in their constituency.

Substitutions[edit]

Notes[edit]

  1. ^ Incumbent MP Mario Capanna helped his party running for this seat. However, according to the Italian Constitution, MPs can't be senators, so he ceded his senatorial seat to his party-mate Guido Pollice.