2004 European Parliament election in Italy

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outgoing members elected members
All 78 Italian seats to theEuropean Parliament
Turnout	71.72 ( 1.99pp)
Party Leader Vote % Seats +/– The Olive Tree Romano Prodi 31.08 28 +4 Forza Italia Silvio Berlusconi 20.93 16 −6 AN Gianfranco Fini 11.49 9 +1 PRC Fausto Bertinotti 6.06 5 +1 UDC Pier Ferdinando Casini 5.89 5 +1 Lega Nord Umberto Bossi 4.96 4 0 Greens Alfonso Pecoraro Scanio 2.47 2 0 PdCI Oliviero Diliberto 2.42 2 0 Bonino List Emma Bonino 2.25 2 −5 IdV Antonio Di Pietro 2.14 2 New SUE Gianni De Michelis 2.04 2 New UDEUR Clemente Mastella 1.29 1 0 AS Alessandra Mussolini 1.23 1 New Pensioners Carlo Fatuzzo 1.15 1 0 Tricolour Flame Luca Romagnoli 0.73 1 0 SVP Elmar Pichler Rolle 0.45 1 0 This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below. Major party in each Province.

The2004 European Parliament election in Italy was held on 12 and 13 June 2004.

Italy's highly fragmented party system made it hard to identify an overall trend, but the results were generally seen as a defeat for Italian Prime MinisterSilvio Berlusconi and a victory for the centre-left opposition coalition identified withRomano Prodi, who wasPresident of the European Commission until 2004, and was widely expected to re-enter Italian politics at thenext election.

The common list ofThe Olive Tree, comprising mainly theDemocrats of the Left andThe Daisy became the largest list, with an important psychological effect. However, expectations for this list were originally somewhat larger, andMassimo D'Alema had proclaimed that "If the unity list reaches 33%, the government has to go".

While theOlive Tree's performance was not as phenomenal as it had hoped, the test indicated a somewhat reduced support for the centre-right coalition. However, in European elections, Italians tend to vote in a more candidate-oriented way, giving their vote more easily to a candidate outside their usual party; this generally reduces the significance of these elections.

The pureparty-list proportional representation was the traditional electoral system of the Italian Republic since its foundation in 1946, so it had been adopted to elect the Italian representatives to the European Parliament too.

Two levels were used: a national level to divide seats between parties, and a constituency level to distribute them between candidates.Italian regions were united in 5 constituencies, each electing a group of deputies.

At national level, seats were divided between party lists using thelargest remainder method withHare quota. All seats gained by each party were automatically distributed to their localopen lists and their most voted candidates.

Seats are allocated to party lists on a national basis using an electoral quota, with the residue given to the lists with the largest excess over whole quotas. An electoral quota is then calculated for each list and used to allocate seats to each list in each of the five electoral regions.

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