All 630 seats in the Chamber of Deputies 316 seats needed for a majority
Turnout
90.62% ( 2.77pp)
Party
Leader
%
Seats
+/–
DC
Benigno Zaccagnini
38.30
262
0
PCI
Enrico Berlinguer
30.38
201
−26
PSI
Bettino Craxi
9.81
62
+5
MSI
Giorgio Almirante
5.26
30
−5
PSDI
Pietro Longo
3.84
20
+5
PR
Marco Pannella
3.45
18
+14
PRI
Giovanni Spadolini
3.03
16
+2
PLI
Valerio Zanone
1.94
9
+4
PdUP
Vittorio Foa
1.37
6
+1
SVP
Silvius Magnago
0.56
4
+1
LpT
Manlio Cecovini
0.18
1
New
UV
Jean-Claude Perrin
0.09
1
+1
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
Senate of the Republic
All 315 seats in the Senate of the Republic 162[a] seats needed for a majority
Turnout
90.69% ( 2.71pp)
Party
Leader
%
Seats
+/–
DC
Benigno Zaccagnini
38.34
138
+3
PCI
Enrico Berlinguer
31.46
109
−7
PSI
Bettino Craxi
10.38
32
+3
MSI
Giorgio Almirante
5.68
13
−2
PSDI
Pietro Longo
4.22
9
+3
PRI
Giovanni Spadolini
3.36
6
0
PLI
Valerio Zanone
2.21
2
0
PR
Marco Pannella
1.32
2
+2
SVP
Silvius Magnago
0.55
3
+1
UV–DP
Several leaders
0.12
1
0
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
Giulio Andreotti DC
Francesco Cossiga DC
The 1979 Italian general election was held in Italy on 3 June 1979.[1] This election was called just a week before the European vote: the failure to hold the two elections at the same time caused much criticism for wasting public money.
Terrorist attacks by the Red Brigades caused a reversal in the result of the previous election three years before: for the first time the Italian Communist Party lost significant numbers of seats, delaying the government change that had seemed imminent in 1976. The Communist defeat gave a new strength to all the minor parties, as concentrating the vote on the Christian Democracy Party seemed less necessary to prevent a communist victory. The Christian Democrats remained stable nonetheless, while the neo-fascist Italian Social Movement was weakened by the success of its spin-off National Democracy.
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^Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p. 1048. ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
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