The Italian regional elections of 1959 were regional elections held in Aosta Valley and Sicily on 17 May and 7 June. This was the third regional election in Aosta Valley and the fourth in Sicily.
The Aosta Valley is a mountainous autonomous region in northwestern Italy. It is bordered by Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France, to the west, Valais, Switzerland, to the north and by the Metropolitan City of Turin in the region of Piedmont, Italy, to the south and east.
Sicily is the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea and one of the 20 regions of Italy. It is one of the five Italian autonomous regions, in Southern Italy along with surrounding minor islands, officially referred to as Regione Siciliana.
Parties | votes | votes (%) | seats |
---|---|---|---|
Valdostan Union–Italian Communist Party –Italian Socialist Party–PSDI dissidents | 30,214 | 51.4 | 25 |
Christian Democracy–Italian Liberal Party –Italian Democratic Socialist Party | 28,539 | 48.6 | 10 |
Total | 58,753 | 100.0 | 35 |
Sources: Regional Council of Aosta Valley and Istituto Cattaneo
Parties | votes | votes (%) | seats |
---|---|---|---|
Christian Democracy | 937,734 | 38.6 | 33 |
Italian Communist Party | 518,611 | 21.3 | 20 |
Social Christian Sicilian Union | 257,023 | 10.6 | 9 |
Italian Socialist Party | 237,708 | 9.8 | 12 |
Italian Social Movement | 183,788 | 7.6 | 8 |
Italian Democratic Party | 115,296 | 4.7 | 3 |
Italian Liberal Party | 90,890 | 3.7 | 2 |
Italian Democratic Socialist Party | 52,583 | 2.2 | 2 |
Others | 35,587 | 1.5 | - |
Total | 2,426,220 | 100.0 | 90 |
Sources: Istituto Cattaneo and Sicilian Regional Assembly
The Valdostan Union, also Valdostian Union or Valdotanian Union is a regionalist and centrist political party in Aosta Valley, Italy. It represents mainly the French-speaking minority in the region, and its leaders are Erik Lavévaz, party president, and Augusto Rollandin, former President of Aosta Valley.
The Politics of Aosta Valley, Italy since 1946 has taken place in a framework of a parliamentary representative democracy, whereby the President of Aosta Valley has been the head of government, and of a pluriform multi-party system. The Regional Government has exercised legislative power, vested in both the government and the Regional Council of Aosta Valley.
This page gathers the results of elections in Aosta Valley.
The Valdostan regional election of 1998 took place on 31 May 1998.
This page gathers the results of provincial elections in Veneto since 1995.
This page gathers the results of municipal elections in Veneto, Italy in the region's five major cities, since 1993.
The Valdostan regional election of 1993 took place on 6 June 1993.
The Valdostan regional election of 1988 took place on 26 –27 June 1988.
The Valdostan regional election of 1983 took place on 26 June 1983.
The Valdostan regional election of 1978 took place on 25 June 1978.
The Valdostan regional election of 1973 took place on 10 June 1973.
The Valdostan regional election of 1968 took place on 21 April 1968.
The Valdostan regional election of 1963 took place on 27 October 1963.
The Sardinian regional election of 1989 took place on 11 June 1989.
The Sardinian regional election of 1953 for the Second Council took place on 14 June 1953.
The Sardinian regional election of 1961 took place on 18 June 1961.
The Valdostan regional election of 1949 took place on 24 April 1949. The National Liberation Committee of Italy had granted in 1946 a special autonomy to Aosta Valley, later confirmed by the Italian Constitution of 1948.
The Valdostan regional election of 1954 took place on 6 November 1954.
The Valdostan regional election of 1959 took place on 17 May 1959.
The Italian regional elections of 1949 refer to the regional election were held in Aosta Vally and Sardinia on 24 April and 8 May. This was the first regional election for both region and the second regional election in Italy after the 1947 in Sicily.