1870 Italian general election

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1870 Italian general election
Flag of Italy (1861-1946) crowned.svg
  1867 20 November 1870 (first round)
27 November 1870 (second round)
1874  

All 508 seats in the Chamber of Deputies
255 seats needed for a majority
 Majority partyMinority party
  Giovanni Lanza iii without oval frame.jpg Urbano Rattazzi lookingleft without oval frame.jpg
Leader Giovanni Lanza Urbano Rattazzi
Party Historical Right Historical Left
Leader's seat Vignale Alessandria
Seats won233195
Seat changeIncrease2.svg82Decrease2.svg30

1870 Italian general election map.svg
Constituencies used for the elections

Prime Minister before election

Giovanni Lanza
Historical Right

Elected Prime Minister

Giovanni Lanza
Historical Right

General elections were held in Italy on 20 November 1870, with a second round of voting on 27 November. [1] They were a snap election, called by Prime Minister Giovanni Lanza to take advantage by the Capture of Rome and to give parliamentary representation to the future capital of Italy. [2]

Contents

Only 530,018 men of a total population of around 26 million were entitled to vote. They were largely aristocrats representing rentiers from the north of the country, and held moderate political views including loyalty to the crown and low government spending. [3]

Campaign

The Historical Right was led by the Prime Minister of Italy, Giovanni Lanza, a conservative politician from Piedmont.

The bloc of the Historical Left was led by Urbano Rattazzi, a liberal politician and former Prime Minister, who led the left-wing for more than a decade.

The electoral result was controversial; in terms of percentages, Prime Minister Giovanni Lanza fully exploited the prestige of the Capture of Rome against his parliamentary opponents. However, the turnout further declined after the Non expedit of Pope Pius IX, so that less than 1% of the total population of the country took part to this election. [4] The newly completed Italian State so revealed itself as a strict oligarchy with a deep fracture with its same population, creating a damage which was never really repaired.

After the election, Lanza was confirmed Prime Minister by the King.

Parties and leaders

PartyIdeologyLeader
Historical Right Conservatism Giovanni Lanza
Historical Left Liberalism Urbano Rattazzi

Results

Italian Parliament 1870.svg
PartyVotes%Seats+/–
Historical Right 233+82
Historical Left 195−30
Independents56–18
Invalidated [lower-alpha 1] 24
Total508+15
Valid votes229,93495.42
Invalid/blank votes11,0404.58
Total votes240,974100.00
Registered voters/turnout530,01845.47
Source: La Stampa

Notes

  1. The electoral law did not limit the number of constituencies where a candidate could stand, so many politicians ran and won in two or more constituencies, which consequently needed by-elections to fill their seats.

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References

  1. Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p1047 ISBN   978-3-8329-5609-7
  2. La Stampa, Monday, December 5, 1870.
  3. Nohlen & Stöver, p1028
  4. The turnout was so low that many candidates that obtained a landslide in the first round, were obliged to the second round because the first one was annulled because the quorum of 50% of registered voters was not accomplished.