1970 Lombard regional election

Politics of Lombardy

The 1970 Lombard regional election took place on 7–8 June 1970. It was the first-ever regional election.

Largest party by municipality

Electoral law

Election was held under proportional representation with provincial constituencies where the largest remainder method with a Droop quota was used. To ensure more proportionality, remained votes and seats were transferred at regional level and calculated at-large.

Results

The Christian Democracy was by far the largest party and christian-democrat Piero Bassetti was able to form a strong center-left government with the support of the PSI, the PSU and the PRI. Bassetti was replaced by Cesare Golfari in 1974.

7 June 1970 Lombard regional election results
Parties Votes % Seats
Christian Democracy 2,138,141 40.90 36
Italian Communist Party 1,210,068 23.14 19
Italian Socialist Party 648,696 12.41 9
Unitary Socialist Party 376,436 7.20 5
Italian Liberal Party 310,324 5.94 4
Italian Social Movement 195,791 3.64 3
Italian Socialist Party of Proletarian Unity 188,585 3.61 2
Italian Republican Party 125,767 2.41 2
Italian Democratic Party of Monarchist Unity 31,119 0.60 –
Autonomists' Union of Italy 3,389 0.06 –
Total parties 5,228,316 100.00 80
Invalid/blank votes 225,720 4.14
Registered voters 5,453,931 95.51
Source: Ministry of the Interior – Results
Popular vote
DC
 
 40.90%
PCI
 
 23.14%
PSI
 
 12.41%
PSU
 
 7.20%
PLI
 
 5.94%
MSI
 
 3.64%
PSIUP
 
 3.61%
PRI
 
 2.41%
Others
 
 0.66%

Seats by province

Province DC PCI PSI PSU PLI MSI PSIUP PRI Total
Milan 12 9 4 3 3 2 1 1 35
Brescia 5 2 1 1 - 1 1 - 11
Bergamo 5 1 1 1 - - - - 8
Como 4 1 1 - 1 - - - 7
Varese 3 1 1 - - - - 1 6
Mantua 2 2 1 - - - - - 5
Pavia 2 2 - - - - - - 4
Cremona 2 1 - - - - - - 3
Sondrio 1 - - - - - - - 1
Total 36 19 9 5 4 3 2 2 80