1980 Lombard regional election

The Lombard regional election of 1980 took place on 8 June 1980. The 3rd term of the Regional Council was chosen.

Lombardy regional election, 1980

8 June 1980

All 80 seats to the Regional Council of Lombardy
Turnout92.48%
  First party Second party Third party
 
Party Christian Democracy Communist Party Socialist Party
Last election 32 seats, 37.5% 25 seats, 30.4% 11 seats, 14.1%
Seats won 34 23 11
Seat change 2 2 =
Popular vote 2,240,861 1,623,532 834,111
Percentage 38.9% 28.2% 14.5%
Swing 1.4% 2.2% 0.4%

President of Lombardy before election

Giuseppe Guzzetti
DC

Elected President of Lombardy

Giuseppe Guzzetti
DC

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 party was by far the largest. After the election the incumbent president Giuseppe Guzzetti was re-elected at the head of a center-left coalition comprising also the PSI, the PSDI and the PRI.

8 June 1980 Lombard regional election results
Party Votes % Seats
Christian Democracy2,240,86138.8634
Italian Communist Party1,623,35228.1523
Italian Socialist Party834,11114.4611
Italian Democratic Socialist Party260,6114.523
Italian Social Movement251,7454.373
Italian Liberal Party197,3013.422
Italian Republican Party152,6052.652
Proletarian Democracy96,8821.681
Proletarian Unity Party86,6311.501
Association for Trieste10,0010.170
Milanese List3,8250.070
Social Action Christian Party2,7380.050
Revolutionary Communist League2,5900.040
European Workers' Party2,5290.040
Revolutionary Socialist League1,0860.020
Total valid votes5,766,86880
Blank votes233,742
Invalid votes (blank included)380,286
Total6,147,154
Registered voters & turnout6,647,07392.48

Source: Ministry of the Interior

Seats by province

Province DC PCI PSI PSDI MSI PLI PRI DP PdUP Total
Milan 12 11 6 2 2 2 2 1 1 39
Brescia 5 2 1 1 1 - - - - 10
Bergamo 5 2 1 - - - - - - 8
Como 3 2 1 - - - - - - 6
Varese 3 2 1 - - - - - - 6
Pavia 2 2 1 - - - - - - 5
Cremona 2 1 - - - - - - - 3
Mantua 1 1 - - - - - - - 2
Sondrio 1 - - - - - - - - 1
Total 34 23 11 3 3 2 2 1 1 80
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