27 January 1861 (first round) 3 February 1861 (second round)
1865 →
All 443 seats in the Chamber of Deputies 222 seats needed for a majority
Majority party
Minority party
Third party
Leader
Camillo Benso di Cavour
Urbano Rattazzi
Giuseppe Mazzini
Party
Historical Right
Historical Left
Historical Far Left
Constituencies used for the elections
Prime Minister before election
None
Elected Prime Minister
Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour
Historical Right
General elections were held in Italy on 27 January 1861, with a second round on 3 February.[1] The newly elected Parliament first convened in Turin on 4 March 1861, where, thirteen days later, it declared the unification of the country as the Kingdom of Italy.[2]
The elections were carried out according to the 1848 electoral law of the Kingdom of Sardinia, in which only literate men over the age of 25 and paying a certain level of taxation were allowed to vote.[1] Candidates were elected in single member constituencies, with a second round required in cases when no candidates received over 50% of the vote or the equivalent of one-third of the registered voters in the constituency.[3] The Pope demanded that Catholics did not take part in the elections.[3]
^ abDieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p. 1047 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
^Nohlen & Stöver, p. 1027
^ abNohlen & Stöver, p. 1039
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