Italian regional elections, 1990

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Italian regional elections, 1990
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  1985 12 May 1990 1995  

Presidents and regional assemblies of Piedmont, Lombardy, Veneto, Liguria, Emilia-Romagna, Tuscany, Marche, Umbria, Lazio, Campania, Molise, Abruzzo, Apulia, Basilicata and Calabria


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The Italian regional elections of 1990 were held on May 16. The fifteen ordinary regions, created in 1970, elected their fifth assemblies.

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Electoral system

The pure party-list proportional representation had traditionally become the electoral system of Italy; it was also adopted for the regional vote. Each Italian province corresponded to a constituency electing a group of candidates. At constituency level, seats were divided between open lists using the largest remainder method with Droop quota. Remaining votes and seats were transferred at regional level, where they were divided using the Hare quota, and automatically distributed to best losers into the local lists.

Party-list proportional representation family of voting systems

Party-list proportional representation systems are a family of voting systems emphasizing proportional representation (PR) in elections in which multiple candidates are elected through allocations to an electoral list. They can also be used as part of mixed additional member systems.

Italy republic in Southern Europe

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Open list describes any variant of party-list proportional representation where voters have at least some influence on the order in which a party's candidates are elected. This as opposed to closed list, which allows only active members, party officials, or consultants to determine the order of its candidates and gives the general voter no influence at all on the position of the candidates placed on the party list. Additionally, an open list system allows voters to select individuals rather than parties. Different systems give voter different amounts of influence. Voter's choice is usually called preference vote.

Results

Summary of the results of all the lists reaching at least a tenth of the suffrages.

Piedmont
  Christian Democracy 27.9%18Decrease2.svg1
  Italian Communist Party 22.8%14  Decrease2.svg4
  Italian Socialist Party 15.3%9Increase2.svg1
Lombardy
  Christian Democracy 28.6%25Decrease2.svg6
  Lombard League 18.9%15Increase2.svg15
  Italian Communist Party 18.8%15Decrease2.svg7
  Italian Socialist Party 14.3%12Steady2.svg
Veneto
  Christian Democracy 42.4%27Decrease2.svg3
  Italian Communist Party 15.6%10Decrease2.svg2
  Italian Socialist Party 13.7%8Steady2.svg
Liguria
  Italian Communist Party 28.4%12Decrease2.svg3
  Christian Democracy 27.5%12Decrease2.svg1
  Italian Socialist Party 14.1%6Increase2.svg2
Emilia-Romagna
  Italian Communist Party 42.1%23Decrease2.svg3
  Christian Democracy 23.4%13Steady2.svg
  Italian Socialist Party 12.4%6Increase2.svg2
Tuscany
  Italian Communist Party 39.8%22Decrease2.svg3
  Christian Democracy 25.9%14Steady2.svg
  Italian Socialist Party 13.6%6Increase2.svg1
Umbria
  Italian Communist Party 38.4%12Decrease2.svg2
  Christian Democracy 27.5%9Steady2.svg
  Italian Socialist Party 16.1%5Increase2.svg1
Marche
  Christian Democracy 36.3%15Steady2.svg
  Italian Communist Party 30.0%13Decrease2.svg2
  Italian Socialist Party 12.7%5Increase2.svg1
Latium
  Christian Democracy 34.5%22Increase2.svg1
  Italian Communist Party 23.8%15Decrease2.svg3
  Italian Socialist Party 14.3%9Increase2.svg2
Abruzzo
  Christian Democracy 46.7%20Increase2.svg1
  Italian Communist Party 20.5%8Decrease2.svg3
  Italian Socialist Party 14.7%6Increase2.svg1
Molise
  Christian Democracy 58.9%19Increase2.svg1
  Italian Communist Party 14.2%4Decrease2.svg4
  Italian Socialist Party 12.0%4Increase2.svg1
Campania
  Christian Democracy 40.8%25Increase2.svg1
  Italian Socialist Party 19.0%12Increase2.svg3
  Italian Communist Party 16.7%10Decrease2.svg4
Apulia
  Christian Democracy 40.7%22Increase2.svg2
  Italian Socialist Party 19.7%10Increase2.svg2
  Italian Communist Party 18.7%10Decrease2.svg3
Basilicata
  Christian Democracy 47.2%15Increase2.svg1
  Italian Communist Party 19.2%6Decrease2.svg1
  Italian Socialist Party 18.0%6Increase2.svg1
Calabria
  Christian Democracy 38.2%16Steady2.svg
  Italian Socialist Party 22.3%9Increase2.svg1
  Italian Communist Party 19.5%8Decrease2.svg2

Italian political spectrum, which had been quite blocked since World War II, began to change rapidly. Umberto Bossi's Lega Nord obtained a stunning result in the main election of this round of vote, the choice of the Lombard Regional Council. If the Christian Democracy hugely suffered the League pressure in Northern Italy, it counterbalanced these negative result in Southern Italy. All Italy instead punished the Communists, revolutions in the Eastern Bloc having marked the final decline of the party: Secretary Achille Occhetto understood that an era was finished, and prepared the transition of his group to social-democratic ideas.

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Despite these changes, all fifteen councils confirmed their respective political administrations. However, numbers in Northern Italy were too close to allow stable leaderships, and a period of fragmentation was opened in those regions. When these councils expired in 1995, all Italian politics was completely changed.

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