Parliamentary elections in Italy in 1983

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 %
40
30th
20th
10
0
32.93
29.89
11.44
6.81
5.08
4.09
2.89
2.19
4.68
Otherwise.
Gains and losses
compared to 1979
 % p
   4th
   2
   0
  -2
  -4
  -6
-5.37
-0.49
+1.63
+1.55
+2.05
+0.25
+0.95
-1.26
+0.65
Otherwise.
7th
198
73
11
23
29
5
225
16
42
7th 198 73 11 23 29 5 225 16 42 
A total of 629 seats

The 1983 parliamentary elections took place on June 26 and 27, 1983 . They were the tenth after the end of World War II and the introduction of universal male and female suffrage. The Socialists ( Partito Socialista Italiano ) succeeded in increasing their share of the vote at the expense of the dominant Christian Democrats ( Democrazia Cristiana ) and the Communists , the strongest opposition party to date, so that their chairman Bettino Craxi was elected head of government at the head of a coalition with the Christian Democrats has been. Apart from the brief episode under Giovanni Spadolini , Craxi was the first Italian head of government since 1945 who did not belong to the Christian Democrats.

Results

Political party Number of votes Mandates
Democrazia Cristiana (DC) 32.9% 225
Partito Comunista Italiano (PCI) 29.9% 198
Partito Socialista Italiano (PSI) 11.4% 73
Movimento Sociale Italiano (MSI) 6.8% 42
Partito Repubblicano Italiano (PRI) 5.1% 29
Partito Socialista Democratico Italiano (PSDI) 4.1% 23
Partito Liberale Italiano (PLI) 2.9% 16
Partito Radicale (PR) 2.2% 11
Democrazia Proletaria (DP) 1.5% 7th
Partito Nazionale Pensionati 1.4% -
South Tyrolean People's Party (SVP) 0.5% 3
Liga Veneta (LV) 0.3% 1
Lista per Trieste (LpT) 0.3% -
Partito Sardo d'Azione 0.3% 1
Others 0.5% -

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Italy, Dates of Elections: 26 and 27 June 1983. In: ipu.org . Retrieved October 17, 2018 .