Lombard regional election, 1980

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The Lombard regional election of 1980 took place on 8 June 1980. The 3rd term of the Regional Council was chosen.

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Electoral law

Election was held under proportional representation with provincial constituencies where the largest remainder method with a Droop quota was used. To ensure more proportionality, remained votes and seats were transferred at regional level and calculated at-large.

Proportional representation (PR) characterizes electoral systems in which divisions in an electorate are reflected proportionately in the elected body. If n% of the electorate support a particular political party, then roughly n% of seats will be won by that party. The essence of such systems is that all votes contribute to the result - not just a plurality, or a bare majority. The most prevalent forms of proportional representation all require the use of multiple-member voting districts, as it is not possible to fill a single seat in a proportional manner. In fact, the implementations of PR that achieve the highest levels of proportionality tend to include districts with large numbers of seats.

The largest remainder method is one way of allocating seats proportionally for representative assemblies with party list voting systems. It contrasts with various divisor methods.

The Droop quota is the quota most commonly used in elections held under the single transferable vote (STV) system. It is also sometimes used in elections held under the largest remainder method of party-list proportional representation. In an STV election the quota is the minimum number of votes a candidate must receive in order to be elected. Any votes a candidate receives above the quota are transferred to another candidate. The Droop quota was devised in 1868 by the English lawyer and mathematician Henry Richmond Droop (1831–1884) as a replacement for the earlier Hare quota.

Results

The Christian Democracy party was by far the largest. After the election the incumbent president Giuseppe Guzzetti was re-elected at the head of a center-left coalition comprising also the PSI, the PSDI and the PRI.

Christian Democracy (Italy) Italian political party, founded in 1943 and dissolved in 1994

Christian Democracy was a Christian democratic political party in Italy.

Italian Socialist Party former Italian political party (1892–1994)

The Italian Socialist Party was a socialist and later social-democratic political party in Italy. Founded in Genoa in 1892, the PSI dominated the Italian left until after World War II, when it was eclipsed in status by the Italian Communist Party. The Socialists came to special prominence in the 1980s, when their leader Bettino Craxi, who had severed the residual ties with the Soviet Union and re-branded the party as liberal-socialist, served as Prime Minister (1983–1987). The PSI was disbanded in 1994 as a result of the Tangentopoli scandals. Prior to World War I, future dictator Benito Mussolini was a member of the PSI.

Italian Democratic Socialist Party political party

The Italian Democratic Socialist Party was a minor social-democratic political party in Italy. The PSDI, before the 1990s decline in votes and members, had been an important force in Italian politics, being the longest serving partner in government for Christian Democracy. The party's founder and longstanding leader was Giuseppe Saragat, who served as President of the Italian Republic from 1964 to 1971.

Summary of the 8 June 1980 Lombard regional election

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Lombard Regional Council 1980.svg
PartyVotes%+/Seats+/
Christian Democracy DC2,240,86138.86Increase2.svg 1.3834Increase2.svg 2
Italian Communist Party PCI1,623,35228.15Decrease2.svg 2.2423Decrease2.svg 2
Italian Socialist Party PSI834,11114.46Increase2.svg 0.4111Steady2.svg 0
Italian Democratic Socialist Party PSDI260,6114.52Decrease2.svg 0.653Steady2.svg 0
Italian Social Movement MSI251,7454.37Decrease2.svg 0.163Steady2.svg 0
Italian Liberal Party PLI197,3013.42Increase2.svg 0.622Steady2.svg 0
Italian Republican Party PRI152,6052.65Decrease2.svg 0.432Steady2.svg 0
Proletarian Democracy DP96,8821.68Decrease2.svg 0.691Decrease2.svg 1
Proletarian Unity Party PdUP86,6311.50Increase2.svg 1.501Increase2.svg 1
Association for Trieste10,0010.17Increase2.svg 0.170Steady2.svg 0
Milanese List3,8250.07Increase2.svg 0.070Steady2.svg 0
Social Action Christian PartyPCAS2,7380.05Increase2.svg 0.050Steady2.svg 0
Revolutionary Communist LeagueLCR2,5900.04Increase2.svg 0.040Steady2.svg 0
European Workers' PartyPOE2,5290.04Increase2.svg 0.040Steady2.svg 0
Revolutionary Socialist LeagueLSR1,0860.02Increase2.svg 0.020Steady2.svg 0
Total valid votes5,766,86880
Blank votes233,742
Invalid votes (blank included)380,286
Total6,147,154
Registered voters & turnout6,647,07392.48

Source: Ministry of the Interior

Seats by province

Province DC PCI PSI PSDI MSI PLI PRI DP PdUP Total
Milan1211622221139
Brescia52111----10
Bergamo521------8
Como321------6
Varese321------6
Pavia221------5
Cremona21-------3
Mantua11-------2
Sondrio1--------1
Total34231133221180


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