All 574 seats in the Chamber of Deputies 288 seats needed for a majority
Turnout
92.23%
Party
Leader
%
Seats
+/–
DC
Alcide De Gasperi
48.51
305
+98
FDP
Palmiro Togliatti & Pietro Nenni
30.98
183
−36
US
Giuseppe Saragat
7.07
33
New
BN
Roberto Lucifero d'Aprigliano
3.82
19
−52
PNM
Alfredo Covelli
2.78
14
−2
PRI
Randolfo Pacciardi
2.48
9
−14
MSI
Giorgio Almirante
2.01
6
New
SVP
Erich Amonn [de]
0.47
3
New
Peasants
Alessandro Scotti [it]
0.37
1
0
PSd'Az
Giovanni Battista Melis [it]
0.24
1
−1
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
Senate of the Republic
All 237 seats in the Senate of the Republic 172[a] seats needed for a majority
Turnout
92.15%
Party
Leader
%
Seats
DC
Alcide De Gasperi
48.11
131
FDP
Palmiro Togliatti & Pietro Nenni
30.76
72
US
Giuseppe Saragat
4.16
10
BN
Roberto Lucifero d'Aprigliano
5.40
7
PRI
Randolfo Pacciardi
2.62
6
PNM
Alfredo Covelli
1.74
3
MSI
Giorgio Almirante
0.72
1
ADN
Epicarmo Corbino
0.68
1
SVP
Erich Amonn [de]
0.42
2
PSd'Az
Giovanni Battista Melis [it]
0.29
1
Independents
–
2.40
4
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
Results of the election in the Chamber and Senate.
Seat distribution for the Chamber of Deputies (left) and Senate (right).
Prime Minister before
Prime Minister after the election
Alcide De Gasperi DC
Alcide De Gasperi DC
General elections were held in Italy on 18 April 1948 to elect the first Parliament of the Italian Republic.[1]
After the Soviet-backed coup in Czechoslovakia in February 1948, the U.S. became alarmed about Soviet intentions in Central Europe and feared that Italy would be drawn into the Soviet sphere of influence if the leftist Popular Democratic Front (Italian abbr.: FDP), which consisted of the Italian Communist Party (PCI) and the Italian Socialist Party (PSI), were to win the 1948 general election. As the last month of the election campaign began, Time magazine published an article which argued that an FDP victory would push Italy to "the brink of catastrophe".[2]
The U.S. consequently intervened in the election by heavily funding the centrist coalition led by Christian Democracy (DC) and launching an anti-communist propaganda campaign in Italy. The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) claims that the Soviet Union responded by sending exorbitant funds to the FDP coalition. However, the PCI disputed this claim and, in contrast, expressed its discontent with what it perceived as a lack of support from the Soviets.[citation needed]
The DC coalition won the election by a comfortable margin and defeated the FDP coalition.[3] The DC coalition went on to form a government without the leftists, who had been expelled from the government coalition in the May 1947 crises and remained frozen out.
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^Nohlen, Dieter; Stöver, Philip (2010). Elections in Europe: A data handbook (1st ed.). Nomos. p. 1048. ISBN 9783832956097. Retrieved 22 December 2019.
^"ITALY: Fateful Day". Time. 22 March 1948. Retrieved 22 December 2019.
^Drake, Richard (July 2004). "The Soviet Dimension of Italian Communism". Journal of Cold War Studies. 6 (3): 115–119. doi:10.1162/1520397041447355. S2CID 57564743.
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