1880 Italian general election

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1880 Italian general election
Flag of Italy (1861-1946) crowned.svg
  1876 16 May 1880 (first round)
23 May 1880 (second round)
1882  

All 508 seats in the Chamber of Deputies
255 seats needed for a majority
 Majority partyMinority partyThird party
  Agostino Depretis.jpg Marco Minghetti.jpg Giuseppe Zanardelli iii without oval frame.jpg
Leader Agostino Depretis Marco Minghetti Giuseppe Zanardelli
Party Historical Left Historical Right Dissident Left
Seats won218171119
Seat changeDecrease2.svg196Increase2.svg77New
Popular vote146,096135,71770,479
Percentage40.76%37.86%19.66%
SwingDecrease2.svg29.45 pp Increase2.svg9.66 pp New

1880 Italian general election map.svg
Results by electoral college

Prime Minister before election

Benedetto Cairoli
Historical Left

Subsequent Prime Minister

Benedetto Cairoli
Historical Left

General elections were held in Italy on 16 May 1880, with a second round of voting on 23 May. [1]

Contents

Campaign

The Historical Left was led by the Prime Minister of Italy, Agostino Depretis, longtime Prime Minister of Italy.

The bloc of the Historical Right was led by Marco Minghetti, a conservative politician and former Prime Minister, from Bologna.

A third large parliamentary group was the Dissident Left, composed by former members of the Left, which were against the alliance with the Right. Also known as La Pentarchia (The Pentarchy), its main leader was Giuseppe Zanardelli, a jurisconsult from Brescia.

Parties and leaders

PartyIdeologyLeader
Historical Left Liberalism Agostino Depretis
Historical Right Conservatism Marco Minghetti
Dissident Left Progressivism Giuseppe Zanardelli

Results

The Historical Left group emerged as the largest in Parliament, although left-wing dissidents won 119 of the 508 seats, becoming the third parliamentary group. [2] Only 621,896 men of a total population of around 29 million were entitled to vote. [3] Benedetto Cairoli was confirmed Prime Minister by the king Umberto I.

Italian Parliament 1880.svg
PartyVotes%Seats+/–
Historical Left 146,09640.76218−196
Historical Right 135,71737.86171+77
Dissident Left 70,47919.66119New
Others6,1471.7100
Total358,439100.005080
Valid votes358,43996.96
Invalid/blank votes11,2453.04
Total votes369,684100.00
Registered voters/turnout621,89659.44
Source: National Institute of Statistics

References

  1. Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p1047 ISBN   978-3-8329-5609-7
  2. Nohlen & Stöver, p1082
  3. Nohlen & Stöver, p1049