1913 Italian general election

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1913 Italian general election
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  1909 26 October 1913 (first round)
2 November 1913 (second round)
1919  

All 508 seats in the Chamber of Deputies
255 seats needed for a majority
 Majority partyMinority partyThird party
  Giovanni Giolitti.jpg Costantino Lazzari.jpeg Ettore Sacchi.jpeg
Leader Giovanni Giolitti Costantino Lazzari Ettore Sacchi
Party Liberal Union Socialist Party Radical Party
Seats won2705262
Seat changeDecrease2.svg59Increase2.svg11Increase2.svg14
Popular vote2,387,947883,409522,522
Percentage47.62%17.62%10.42%
SwingDecrease2.svg6.83ppDecrease2.svg1.40ppIncrease2.svg0.50pp

Prime Minister before election

Giovanni Giolitti
Liberal Union

Elected Prime Minister

Giovanni Giolitti
Liberal Union

General elections were held in Italy on 26 October 1913, with a second round of voting on 2 November. [1] The Liberals (the former Ministeriali) narrowly retained an absolute majority in the Chamber of Deputies, while the Radical Party emerged as the largest opposition bloc. Both groupings did particularly well in Southern Italy, while the Italian Socialist Party gained eight seats and was the largest party in Emilia-Romagna. [2] However, the election marked the beginning of the decline of Liberal establishment.

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There were episodes of violence during the election. [3]

Background

The two historical parliamentary factions, the liberal and progressive Left and the conservative and monarchist Right, formed a single liberal and centrist group, known as Liberal Union, under the leadership of Giovanni Giolitti. This phenomenon, known in Italian as Trasformismo (roughly translatable in English as "transformism"—in a satirical newspaper, the PM was depicted as a chameleon), effectively removed political differences in Parliament, which was dominated by an undistinguished liberal bloc with a landslide majority until after World War I. Two parliamentary factions alternated in government, one led by Sidney Sonnino and the other, by far the larger of the two, by Giolitti. At that time the Liberals governed in alliance with the Radicals, the Democrats and, eventually, the Reform Socialists. [4] This alliance governed against two smaller opposition: The Clericals, composed by some Vatican-oriented politicians, The Extreme, formed by the socialist faction which represented a real left in a present-day concept. [4]

Electoral reform

Changes made in 1912 widened the voting franchise to include literate men aged 21, men who had served in the army or navy (regardless of whether they were 21 years old), and illiterate men over the age of 30. [3] [5] This raised the number of eligible voters from 2,930,473 in 1909 to 8,443,205. [6] The electoral system remained single-member constituencies with two-round majority voting. [5]

Parties and leaders

PartyIdeologyLeaderStatus before election
Liberal Union (UL) Liberalism Giovanni Giolitti Government
Italian Socialist Party (PSI) Socialism Costantino Lazzari Opposition
Italian Radical Party (PR) Radicalism Ettore Sacchi Government
Constitutional Democratic Party (PDC) Social liberalism severalGovernment
Catholic Electoral Union (UECI) Christian democracy Ottorino Gentiloni Government
Italian Reformist Socialist Party (PSRI) Social democracy Leonida Bissolati Opposition
Democratic Party (PD) Social liberalism severalGovernment
Italian Republican Party (PRI) Republicanism Napoleone Colajanni Opposition
Conservative Catholics (CC) Clericalism severalGovernment

Results

Italian Parliament, 1913.svg
PartyVotes%Seats+/–
Liberal Union 2,387,94747.62270New
Italian Socialist Party 883,40917.6252+11
Italian Radical Party 522,52210.4262+14
Constitutional Democratic Party 277,2515.5329New
Catholic Electoral Union 212,3194.2320+2
Italian Reformist Socialist Party 196,4063.9219New
Democratic Party 138,9672.7711New
Italian Republican Party 102,1022.048−15
Conservative Catholics 89,6301.799New
Dissident Republicans 71,5641.439New
Independent Socialists 67,1331.348New
Dissident Radicals 65,6711.3111New
Total5,014,921100.005080
Valid votes5,014,92198.32
Invalid/blank votes85,6941.68
Total votes5,100,615100.00
Registered voters/turnout8,443,20560.41
Source: Nohlen & Stöver

Leading party by region

RegionFirst partySecond partyThird party
Abruzzo-Molise UL PSI PR
Apulia UL PSI PR
Basilicata UL PR PSI
Calabria UL PR PSI
Campania UL PR PSI
Emilia-Romagna PSI UL PR
Lazio UL PSI PR
Liguria UL PSI PR
Lombardy PSI UL PR
Marche UL PSI PR
Piedmont UL PSI PR
Sardinia UL PSI PR
Sicily UL PR PSI
Tuscany PSI UL PR
Umbria PSI UL PR
Veneto UL PSI PR

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References

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  2. Piergiorgio Corbetta; Maria Serena Piretti, Atlante storico-elettorale d'Italia, Zanichelli, Bologna 2009
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  5. 1 2 Nohlen & Stöver, p1031
  6. Nohlen & Stöver, p1050