Italian local elections, 1946

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The 1946 Italian local elections were held on 10–17–24–31 March and 17 April. In Italy, direct elections were held in 5,772 comuni: in each comune were chosen mayor and members of the City Council.

Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern Europe. Located in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, Italy shares open land borders with France, Switzerland, Austria, Slovenia and the enclaved microstates San Marino and Vatican City. Italy covers an area of 301,340 km² (116,350 sq mi) and has a largely temperate seasonal and Mediterranean climate. With around 61 million inhabitants, it is the fourth-most populous EU member state and the most populous country in Southern Europe.

The comune is a basic administrative division in Italy, roughly equivalent to a township or municipality.

The elections were won by the Popular Democratic Front, led by Palmiro Togliatti and Pietro Nenni.

The Popular Democratic Front, shortened name of the Popular Democratic Front for Freedom, Peace, Labour was a political alliance of political parties in Italy.

Palmiro Togliatti was an Italian politician and leader of the Italian Communist Party from 1927 until his death. He was nicknamed by his supporters Il Migliore. In 1930 he became a citizen of the Soviet Union and later he had a city in the country named after him: Tolyatti.

Pietro Sandro Nenni was an Italian socialist politician, the national secretary of the Italian Socialist Party (PSI) and lifetime Senator since 1970. He was a recipient of the Stalin Peace Prize in 1951. He was a central figure of the Italian left from the 1920s to the 1960s.

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1 2 Only comuni with a population higher than 10,000 inhabitants.

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[Comuni-1] 1 2 Only comuni with a population higher than 10,000 inhabitants.

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