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| Italian general election, 2001 | ||||
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| All 630 seats in the Italian Chamber of Deputies and 315 (of the 324) seats in the Italian Senate |
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| 13 May 2001 | ||||
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| Leader | Silvio Berlusconi | Francesco Rutelli | ||
| Party | House of Freedoms | The Olive Tree | ||
| Leader's seat | Milan Centre | Rome Praenestine | ||
| Last election | 305 & 143 seats, 43.2% | 300 & 157 seats, 45.4% | ||
| Seats won | 368 (H) 176 (S) |
247 (H) 128 (S) |
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| Seat change | +96 | -82 | ||
| Popular vote | 16,915,513 | 16,209,944 | ||
| Percentage | 45.4% | 43.5% | ||
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Incumbent Prime Minister Prime Minister-designate |
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A national general election was held in Italy on May 13, 2001 to elect members of the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate of the Republic. The 14th Parliament of the Italian republic was chosen.
Leader of the left-wing House of Freedoms Silvio Berlusconi won the election, defeating Francesco Rutelli, former Mayor of Rome, and premieral candidate of the leftist Olive Tree coalition, and rising back to power after his first victory, in 1994.
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Electoral system
The intricate electoral system of Italy provided 75% of the seats on the Chamber of Deputies (the Lower House) as elected by first-past-the-post system, whereas the remaining 25% was assigned on a proportional way with a minimum threshold of 4%.
The method used for the Senate was even more complicated: 75% of seats by uninominal method, and 25% by a special proportional method that actually assigned the remaining seats to minoritary parties.
Formally these were exemples of additional member systems.
House results
Inside the House, 475 were chosen in single-member districts, as it happened in the United States. The remaining 155 seats were assigned by proportional representation with a national D'Hondt method and a 4% threshold.
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| Coalitions and parties | First past the post | Proportional representation | Total | |||||||
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| Votes | % | Seats | Parties in coalition | |||||||
| Party | Votes | % | Seats | Total | Seats | |||||
| House of Freedoms | 16,915,513 | 45.4 | 282 | Forza Italia (liberal-conservative) | 10,923,431 | 29.4 | 62 | 86 | 368 | |
| National Alliance (national-conservative) | 4,463,205 | 12.0 | 24 | |||||||
| Lega Nord (federalist) | 1,464,301 | 3.9 | - | |||||||
| Whiteflower (CCD–CDU, christian-democratic) | 1,194,040 | 3.2 | - | |||||||
| New Italian Socialist Party (social-democratic) | 353,269 | 1.0 | - | |||||||
| The Olive Tree | 16,209,944 | 43.5 | 189 | Democrats of the Left (social democratic) | 6,151,154 | 16.6 | 31 | 58 | 247 | |
Democracy is Freedom – The Daisy (centrist)
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5,391,827 | 14.5 | 27 | |||||||
| The Sunflower (Greens – SDI, ecologist/social-democratic) | 805,340 | 2.2 | - | |||||||
| Party of Italian Communists (communist) | 620,859 | 1.7 | - | |||||||
| Communist Refoundation Party (communist) | - | - | - | 1,868,659 | 5.0 | 11 | 11 | 11 | ||
| South Tyrolese People's Party (christian-democratic) | 173,735 | 0.5 | 3 | 200,059 | 0.5 | - | - | 3 | ||
| Valdotanian Union (liberal-centrist) | 25,577 | 0.1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | ||
| Italy of Values-List Di Pietro (populist-centrist) | 1,487,287 | 4.0 | - | 1,443,725 | 3.9 | - | - | - | ||
| European Democracy (christian-democratic) | 1,310,119 | 3.5 | - | 888,249 | 2.4 | - | - | - | ||
| List Bonino-Radical Party (libertarian) | 457,117 | 1.2 | - | 832,213 | 2.2 | - | - | - | ||
| Liga Fronte Veneto (Venetist) | 173,618 | 0.5 | - | 74,353 | 0.2 | - | - | - | ||
| Social Movement Tricolour Flame (neo-fascist) | 121,527 | 0.3 | - | 143,963 | 0.4 | - | - | - | ||
| Other | 258,379 | 0.8 | - | 378,482 | 1.1 | - | - | 630 | ||
Senate results
| Summary of the 13 May 2001 Senate of Italy election resultsedit | ||||||||||
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| Parties and coalitions | Results | |||||||||
| FPP | PR | Total | ||||||||
| Votes | % | Seats | Seats | Seats | ||||||
| House of Freedoms | 14,406,519 | 42.5% | 152 | 24 | 176 | |||||
| Olive Tree +SVP | 13,282,495 | 39.2% | 77 | 51 | 128 | |||||
| South Tyrolese People's Party | 126,177 | 0.4% | 2 | - | 2 | |||||
| Communist Refoundation Party | 1,708,707 | 5.0% | - | 4 | 4 | |||||
| European Democracy | 1,066,908 | 3.2% | - | 2 | 2 | |||||
| Italy of Values-List Di Pietro | 1,140,489 | 3.4% | - | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Lombardian Alliance-Authonomy | 308,559 | 0.9% | - | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Valdotanian Union | 32,429 | 0.1% | 1 | - | 1 | |||||
| List Bonino-Radical Party | 677,725 | 2.0% | - | - | - | |||||
| Fiamma Tricolore | 340,221 | 1.0% | - | - | - | |||||
| Liga Fronte Veneto | 138,134 | 0.4% | - | - | - | |||||
| Other | 624,396 | 1.8% | - | - | - | |||||
Aggregate results of uninominal part by region
| Region | Seats by region | |||||
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| Chamber of Deputies | Senate of the Republic | |||||
| House of Freedoms |
Olive Tree | Other | House of Freedoms |
Olive Tree | Other | |
| Piedmont | 20 | 16 | - | 12 | 5 | - |
| Aosta Valley | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 |
| Lombardy | 70 | 4 | - | 33 | 2 | - |
| Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol | - | 5 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 2 |
| Veneto | 30 | 7 | - | 16 | 1 | - |
| Friuli-Venezia Giulia | 8 | 2 | - | 5 | - | - |
| Liguria | 5 | 9 | - | 2 | 4 | - |
| Emilia-Romagna | 2 | 30 | - | 1 | 14 | - |
| Tuscany | 2 | 27 | - | 1 | 13 | - |
| Umbria | - | 7 | - | - | 5 | - |
| Marche | 2 | 10 | - | 2 | 4 | - |
| Latium | 24 | 19 | - | 15 | 6 | - |
| Abruzzo | 5 | 6 | - | 4 | 1 | - |
| Molise | 2 | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | - |
| Campania | 29 | 18 | - | 14 | 8 | - |
| Apulia | 22 | 12 | - | 15 | 1 | - |
| Basilicata | - | 5 | - | - | 5 | - |
| Calabria | 11 | 6 | - | 6 | 2 | - |
| Sicily | 41 | - | - | 20 | - | - |
| Sardinia | 9 | 5 | - | 4 | 2 | - |
External links
- Repubblica.it: About 2001 Election (in Italian)
- Corriere della Sera: About 2001 Election (in Italian)
- CNN.com: About 2001 Election
- Minister of Internal Affairs of Italy: 2001 Election Results, Chamber of Deputies (in Italian)
- Minister of Internal Affairs of Italy: 2001 Election Results, Senate of the Republic (in Italian)
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