European elections in Italy 2004

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 %

40

30th

20th

10

0

31.08

20.93

11.49

6.06

5.89

4.96

2.47

2.42

2.25

12.45

ULIVO ^a

FI

AN ^c

PRC

UDC ^e

LN

FdV

PdCI

LB

Otherwise.

Gains and losses

compared to

 % p

   8th

   6th

   4th

   2

   0

  -2

  -4

  -6

  -8th

-1.53

-4.23

+1.19

+1.79

+1.14

+0.48

+0.71

+0.42

-6.20

+6.23

ULIVO ^a

FI

AN ^c

PRC

UDC ^e

LN

FdV

PdCI

LB

Otherwise.

Remarks:

^a 1999: Sum of the results from DS , Dem , PPI and RI .

^c 1999: together with PS

^e 1999: Sum of the results from CCD and CDU .

Italian seats in the European Parliament by political group

        

A total of 78 seats

• Socialists (PRC, PdCI): 7
• Social Democrats (DS, SDI): 16
• Greens (FdV): 2
• Liberal Democrats (DL, MRE, LB, IdV): 12
• European People's Party (FI, SVP): 24
• EU skeptics (LN): 4
• National Conservative (AN): 9
• non-attached (SUE, AS, FT): 4

The 2004 European elections in Italy took place on June 12th and 13th, 2004. It was part of the EU- wide European elections in 2004 , with 78 (9 fewer than 1999) of the 732 seats in the European Parliament in Italy .

Electoral system

The five constituencies of Italy

The country was divided into five constituencies : Italia north-occidentale (north-west Italy: Piedmont , Aostatal , Liguria , Lombardy ), Italia north-orientale ( north- east Italy: Veneto , Trentino-South Tyrol , Friuli-Venezia Giulia , Emilia-Romagna ), Italia centrale ( Central Italy: Tuscany , Umbria , Marche , Latium ), Italia meridionale (southern Italy: Abruzzo , Molise , Campania , Apulia , Basilicata , Calabria ) and Italia insulare (islands: Sicily , Sardinia ). The seats were first distributed nationwide, then per party list according to the constituencies. Within the lists, the mandates went to the candidates with the most votes.

Result

49,804,087 people were eligible to vote. The turnout was 71.72% (35,717,655 voters). 3,201,256 ballot papers (9.0%) were given blank or invalid.

Abbreviation	Political party	be right	proportion of	+/-	Mandates	+/-	fraction
ULIVO	Uniti nell'Ulivo	10,105,836	31.08	-1.53	24	-3	SOZ / ALDE
FI	Forza Italia	6,806,245	20.93	-4.23	16	–6	EPP-ED
ON	Alleanza Nazionale	3,736,606	11.49	+1.19	9	+1	UEN
PRC	Partito della Rifondazione Comunista	1,969,776	6.06	+1.79	5	+1	VEL / NGL
UDC	Unione dei Democratici Cristiani e Democratici di Centro	1,914,726	5.89	+1.14	5	+1	EPP-ED
LN	Lega Nord	1,613,506	4.96	+0.48	4th	± 0	Ind / Dem
FdV	Federazione dei Verdi	803.356	2.47	+0.71	2	± 0	Greens / EFA
PdCI	Partito dei Comunisti Italiani	787.613	2.42	+2.42	2	± 0	VEL / NGL
LB	Lista Bonino	731,536	2.25	-6.20	2	-5	ALDE
IdV	Italia dei Valori	695.179	2.14	New	2	New	ALDE
SUE	Socialisti Uniti per l'Europa ( NPSI / US )	664.463	2.04	+1.90	2	+2	non-attached
AP-UDEUR	Alleanza Popolare - UDEUR	419.173	1.29	-0.34	1	± 0	EPP-ED
AS	Alternative social	400,626	1.23	+0.93	1	+1	non-attached
PP	Partito Pensionati	374.343	1.15	+0.40	1	± 0	EPP-ED
FT	Fiamma Tricolore	237.058	0.73	-0.87	1	± 0	non-attached
SVP	South Tyrolean People's Party	146.357	0.45	-0.05	1	± 0	EPP-ED
other		876.703	2.70	-2.12	0	-2

The election was seen as a defeat for Silvio Berlusconi . Two years later he also lost the parliamentary elections . Overall, the parties that ran for 2006 with the center-right alliance in 2006 set up 49.2%, while those of the center-left alliance 50.5%.

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• Results on the website of the Italian Ministry of the Interior