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Asnap election was held inItaly on 13–14 April 2008.[1] The election came afterPresidentGiorgio Napolitano dissolved theItalian Parliament on 6 February 2008, following thedefeat of the government ofPrime MinisterRomano Prodi in a January 2008Senatevote of confidence[2] and the unsuccessful tentative appointment ofFranco Marini with the aim to change the current electoral law. Under Italian law, elections must be held within 70 days of the dissolution. The voting determined the leader of Italy's 62nd government since the end ofWorld War II.[3] The coalition led by ex-Prime MinisterSilvio Berlusconi fromThe People of Freedom party defeated that of formerMayor of Rome,Walter Veltroni of theDemocratic Party.[4]
On 24 January 2008Prime Minister ofItalyRomano Prodi lost avote of confidence in theSenate by a vote of 161 to 156 votes, causing the downfall of hisgovernment.[5] Prodi's resignation led PresidentGiorgio Napolitano to request the president of the Senate,Franco Marini, to assess the possibility to form acaretaker government. The other possibility would have been to call for early elections immediately.
The decision of former Minister of Justice Mastella arrived a few days after the confirmation of theConstitutional Court which confirmed thereferendum to modify the electoral system.[6] As stated many times by Minister Mastella, if the referendum would have been confirmed this would have led directly to the fall of the government[7][8]and it happened.
The fall of the government would disrupt a pending election-law referendum that if passed would make it harder for small parties like Mastella's to gain seats in parliament.[9]
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UDEUR's defection forced the question of whether Prodi still had the parliamentarian support to govern. Presenting amotion of confidence to parliament, he won relatively easily in thelower house of theItalian Parliament, theChamber of Deputies, where the coalition's majority was substantial.[10] Yet a win in theupper house – or Senate – seemed unlikely, andPresidentGiorgio Napolitano was said to have warned against going through with the vote.[10]
The vote, held between 3pm and 9pm (CET), was heated and dramatic.[11] During its course the UDEUR party SenatorStefano Cusumano decided to confirm the confidence and to support the prime minister, even against the orders of his party's leader. He was subsequently subjected to the abuse of his colleagues, being called an "hysteric faggot", "traitor", and reportedly spat on by a member of the conservative UDEUR party. At this point Cusumano apparently fainted, and was carried out on a stretcher.[12] Cusumano's defection had no effect, however: Prodi lost the vote with 161 to 156 votes (one member abstained from voting, while three were absent), and promptly handed in his resignation.[11]
On 30 January, Napolitano appointedFranco Marini to try to form a caretaker government with the goal of changing the current electoral system, rather than call a quick election.[13] The state of theelectoral system had been under criticism not only within the outgoing government, but also among the opposition and in the general population, because of the impossibility to choose candidates directly and of the risks that a close-call election may not grant a stable majority in the Senate.
On 4 February 2008 Marini acknowledged that he had failed to find the necessary majority for an interim government,[14] and resigned his mandate,[15] after having met with all major political forces and having found opposition to forming an interim government mainly from center-right partiesForza Italia andNational Alliance, favoured in a possible next election and strongly in favour of an early vote.,[16]
President Napolitano summoned Bertinotti and Marini, the two speakers of the houses of the Italian parliament, acknowledging the end of the legislature, on 5 February 2008.[17] He dissolved parliament on 6 February 2008.
Major competitors in the election wereSilvio Berlusconi, as leader of the centre-right opposition coalition, andWalter Veltroni, leader of theDemocratic Party. Berlusconi's right coalition was leading by a significant margin in opinion polls.[18] The 71-year-old Berlusconi, who was twice prime minister—from May 1994 to January 1995 and again from May 2001 to May 2006—was not considered too old for the job though he had had heart surgery since leaving office.[19]
Veltroni's campaign has been compared toBarack Obama's presidential run in theUnited States. The most apparent of the similarities is his slogan, "Si può fare" (literally, "it can be done").[19]
Following the calling of the election, Veltroni stated his party will not make any alliance in either Chamber, choosing instead to run alone with its own platform, and challenged Berlusconi to do likewise with hisForza Italia party. The main four left-wing parties not part of the PD decided to contest the election together under the banner ofThe Left – The Rainbow. On 8 February, Berlusconi announcedForza Italia andGianfranco Fini'sNational Alliance will run together under the common symbol ofThe People of Freedom, being regionally allied with theNorthern League.[20]
On 13 February, Veltroni announced to have reached an agreement with theItaly of Values, led byAntonio Di Pietro, which agreed for an electoral alliance with the Democratic Party, accepting also to join the Democratic Party parliamentary groups after the election.[21] On 21 February theItalian Radicals announced an agreement with the Democratic Party, accepting to present themselves in list with the latter, under the agreement they will have nine MPs elected in the Parliament, and appointment ofEmma Bonino as Minister in case of victory.[22]
Though Berlusconi and Veltroni were in opposite parties, they allegedly represent such similar policies that they were dubbed "Veltrusconi". Both candidates supported bigtax cuts and generous spending programs.[19]
TheUnion of Christian and Centre Democrats was invited to support Berlusconi, but refused and decided to run on its own instead.The Rose for Italy originally planned to run alone withBruno Tabacci as their PM candidate, but shortly before the filing deadline, they decided to form joint lists with the UDC.[citation needed]
The electoral system had been last reformed by Law no. 270, 21 December 2005.[23]
For the election of the lower house,[24] all seats in the Chamber of Deputies (excluding one deputy for the region ofAosta Valley and twelve deputies forItalians residing abroad) are allocated based on the national vote in a form ofparty-list proportional representation with a series ofthresholds to encourage parties to form coalitions. Voters cast one vote for aclosed list, meaning they cannot express a preference for individual candidates.
Parties can choose to run in coalitions. Seats are first allocated based on coalition votes, then divided among parties belonging to the same coalition by thelargest remainder method. To guarantee a working majority, the coalition or party that obtains aplurality of the vote, but fewer than 340 seats, is assigned additional seats to reach that number, which is roughly 54% of all seats.
The autonomous region ofAosta Valley elects one deputy through afirst-past-the-post system. Italians abroad are divided into four constituencies, which elect a total of twelve seats based onproportional representation.
For the election of the upper house,[24] a similar system is used. However, the results are based on regional, rather than national, vote. This means the coalition or party that wins a plurality of votes in each region is guaranteed a majority of the seats assigned to that region. As this mechanism is region-based, opposing parties or coalitions may benefit from themajority bonus in different regions. It therefore does not guarantee any party or coalition a majority in the Senate.
Three regions have exceptions to the system detailed above. In the region ofMolise, that is granted two seats in the Senate, seats are allocated proportionally, with no majority bonus. The region ofAosta Valley, which elects one senator, uses afirst-past-the-post system. Finally, the region ofTrentino-South Tyrol elects seven senators with a limitedcompensatory system: six senators are elected in sixsingle-member constituencies, while the seventh is allocated to the most underrepresented list based on the regional votes.
Six seats in the Senate are assigned to Italians living abroad and are allocated using the same system used for the Chamber of Deputies.
| Coalition | Party | Main ideology | Seats | Party leader | Coalition leader | |||
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| C | S | |||||||
| Centre-right coalition | The People of Freedom (PdL) | Liberal conservatism | 204 | 123 | Silvio Berlusconi | Silvio Berlusconi | ||
| Northern League (LN) | Regionalism | 22 | 12 | Umberto Bossi | ||||
| Movement for Autonomy (MpA) | Regionalism | 6 | 0 | Raffaele Lombardo | ||||
| Centre-left coalition | Democratic Party (PD) | Social democracy | 194 | 84 | Walter Veltroni | Walter Veltroni | ||
| Italy of Values (IdV) | Anti-corruption politics | 17 | 3 | Antonio Di Pietro | ||||
| The Left – The Rainbow (SA) | Communism,democratic socialism | 92 | 46 | Fausto Bertinotti | ||||
| Union of the Centre (UdC) | Christian democracy | 36 | 18 | Pier Ferdinando Casini | ||||
| Socialist Party (PS) | Social democracy | 9 | 3 | Enrico Boselli | ||||
| The Right – Tricolour Flame (LD–FT) | Neo-fascism | 4 | 3 | Daniela Santanchè | ||||
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| Coalition | Party | Italy (19 regions) | Aosta Valley | Overseas | Total seats | +/– | ||||||||
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| Votes | % | Seats | Votes | % | Seats | Votes | % | Seats | ||||||
| Centre-right coalition | The People of Freedom | 13,629,464 | 37.38 | 272 | 13,880 | 18.52 | 0 | 322,437 | 30.90 | 4 | 276 | +60 | ||
| Northern League | 3,024,543 | 8.30 | 60 | 2,322 | 3.10 | 0 | — | — | — | 60 | +34 | |||
| Movement for Autonomy | 410,499 | 1.13 | 8 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 8 | ||||
| Centre-left coalition | Democratic Party | 12,095,306 | 33.18 | 211 | — | — | — | 338,954 | 32.48 | 6 | 217 | −9 | ||
| Italy of Values | 1,594,024 | 4.37 | 28 | — | — | — | 42,149 | 4.04 | 1 | 29 | +12 | |||
| Union of the Centre | 2,050,229 | 5.62 | 36 | — | — | — | 88,017 | 8.43 | 0 | 36 | −3 | |||
| South Tyrolean People's Party | 147,718 | 0.41 | 2 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 2 | −2 | |||
| Autonomy Liberty Democracy | — | — | — | 29,314 | 39.12 | 1 | — | — | — | 1 | ±0 | |||
| Associative Movement of Italians Abroad | — | — | — | — | — | — | 86,970 | 8.33 | 1 | 1 | New | |||
| Others | 3,505,498 | 9.61 | 0 | 29,423 | 39.26 | 0 | 164,991 | 15.82 | 0 | 0 | — | |||
| Total | 36,457,254 | 100 | 617 | 74,939 | 100 | 1 | 1,043,518 | 100 | 12 | 630 | ±0 | |||
| PdL | 37.38% | |||
| PD | 33.18% | |||
| LN | 8.30% | |||
| UdC | 5.62% | |||
| IdV | 4.37% | |||
| SA | 3.08% | |||
| LD–FT | 2.43% | |||
| MpA | 1.13% | |||
| Others | 4.51% | |||
| Coalition | Party | Votes | % | Seats | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Centre-right coalition | The People of Freedom (PdL) | 13,629,464 | 37.38 | 272 | ||
| Northern League (LN) | 3,024,543 | 8.30 | 60 | |||
| Movement for Autonomy (MpA) | 410,499 | 1.13 | 8 | |||
| Total | 17,064,506 | 46.81 | 340 | |||
| Centre-left coalition | Democratic Party (PD) | 12,095,306 | 33.18 | 211 | ||
| Italy of Values (IdV) | 1,594,024 | 4.37 | 28 | |||
| Total | 13,689,303 | 37.55 | 239 | |||
| Union of the Centre (UdC) | 2,050,229 | 5.62 | 36 | |||
| The Left – The Rainbow (SA) | 1,124,298 | 3.08 | 0 | |||
| The Right – Tricolour Flame (LD–FT) | 884,961 | 2.43 | 0 | |||
| Socialist Party (PS) | 355,495 | 0.98 | 0 | |||
| Workers' Communist Party (PCL) | 208,296 | 0.57 | 0 | |||
| Critical Left (SC) | 168,916 | 0.46 | 0 | |||
| South Tyrolean People's Party (SVP) | 147,718 | 0.41 | 2 | |||
| Association for Defense of Life | 135,535 | 0.37 | 0 | |||
| For the Common Good (PBC) | 119,569 | 0.33 | 0 | |||
| New Force (FN) | 109,699 | 0.30 | 0 | |||
| Italian Liberal Party (PLI) | 104,053 | 0.29 | 0 | |||
| Democratic Union for Consumers (UDpC) | 91,106 | 0.25 | 0 | |||
| List of Talking Crickets (No Euro–Lega Padana–others) | 66,835 | 0.18 | 0 | |||
| Venetian Republic League (LVR) | 31,353 | 0.09 | 0 | |||
| Die Freiheitlichen (DF) | 28,340 | 0.08 | 0 | |||
| European Movement Disabled Persons (MEDA) | 16,483 | 0.05 | 0 | |||
| Sardinian Action Party (PSd'Az) | 14,860 | 0.04 | 0 | |||
| League for Autonomy – Lombard Alliance (LAL) | 13,992 | 0.04 | 0 | |||
| Union for South Tyrol (UfS) | 12,981 | 0.04 | 0 | |||
| Sardigna Natzione Indipendentzia (SNI) | 7,176 | 0.02 | 0 | |||
| Southern League Ausonia (LSA) | 4,399 | 0.01 | 0 | |||
| Venetian Agreement (IV) | 2,388 | 0.01 | 0 | |||
| Communist Alternative Party (PdAC) | 1,993 | 0.01 | 0 | |||
| The Lotus | 1,797 | 0.00 | 0 | |||
| Thought and Action Party (PPA) | 946 | 0.00 | 0 | |||
| Total | 36,457,254 | 100.00 | 617 | |||
| Region | Centre-right Coalition | Centre-left Coalition | Union of the Centre | The Left – The Rainbow | The Right – Tricolour Flame | Others |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abruzzo | 43.2 | 40.5 | 5.9 | 3.2 | 3.2 | 4.0 |
| Apulia | 47.4 | 35.6 | 8.0 | 3.0 | 2.1 | 3.9 |
| Basilicata | 37.6 | 44.5 | 6.9 | 3.5 | 2.3 | 5.2 |
| Calabria | 43.8 | 36.2 | 8.2 | 3.2 | 2.2 | 6.4 |
| Campania | 51.5 | 33.9 | 6.5 | 2.7 | 1.6 | 3.8 |
| Emilia-Romagna | 36.4 | 50.0 | 4.3 | 3.0 | 2.5 | 3.8 |
| Friuli-Venezia Giulia | 47.8 | 35.7 | 6.0 | 3.1 | 3.0 | 4.4 |
| Lazio | 43.7 | 40.9 | 4.8 | 3.3 | 3.4 | 3.9 |
| Liguria | 43.6 | 42.5 | 3.8 | 3.7 | 2.7 | 3.7 |
| Lombardy | 55.1 | 32.1 | 4.3 | 2.9 | 2.1 | 3.5 |
| Marche | 37.2 | 45.9 | 6.0 | 3.0 | 3.4 | 4.5 |
| Molise | 41.8 | 45.6 | 5.8 | 1.9 | 1.7 | 3.2 |
| Piedmont | 47.0 | 37.4 | 5.2 | 3.4 | 3.2 | 3.8 |
| Sardinia | 43.0 | 40.0 | 6.6 | 3.6 | 1.5 | 5.3 |
| Sicily | 54.3 | 28.8 | 9.4 | 2.6 | 2.0 | 2.9 |
| Trentino-Alto Adige | 30.4 | 27.8 | 4.2 | 3.1 | 2.0 | 32.5 |
| Tuscany | 33.6 | 50.3 | 4.2 | 4.5 | 2.9 | 4.5 |
| Umbria | 36.1 | 47.4 | 4.5 | 3.5 | 3.6 | 4.9 |
| Veneto | 54.4 | 30.8 | 5.6 | 2.2 | 2.0 | 5.0 |
The autonomous region ofAosta Valley, in northwestern Italy, elects one member to the Chamber of Deputies through a directfirst-past-the-post election. Some parties that formed electoral coalitions in Italy, might have opted to run against one another (or form different coalitions) in this particular region.
| Party | Votes | % | Seats | |
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| Autonomy Liberty Democracy (ALD) | 29,314 | 39.12 | 1 | |
| Aosta Valley (UV-SA-FA) | 28,357 | 37.84 | 0 | |
| The People of Freedom (PdL) | 13,880 | 18.52 | 0 | |
| Northern League (LN) | 2,322 | 3.10 | 0 | |
| Social Action (AS) | 1,066 | 1.42 | 0 | |
| Total | 74,939 | 100.00 | 1 | |
Twelve members of the Chamber of Deputies are elected by Italians abroad. Two members are elected for North America and Central America (including most of theCaribbean), three members for South America (includingTrinidad and Tobago), six members for Europe, and one member for the rest of the world (Africa, Asia, Oceania, andAntarctica). Voters in these regions select candidate lists and may also cast a preference vote for individual candidates. The seats are allocated by proportional representation.
The electoral law allows for parties to form different coalitions on the lists abroad, compared to the lists in Italy.
| Party | Votes | % | Seats | |
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| Democratic Party (PD) | 338,954 | 32.48 | 6 | |
| The People of Freedom (PdL) | 322,437 | 30.90 | 4 | |
| Union of the Centre (UdC) | 88,017 | 8.43 | 0 | |
| Associative Movement of Italians Abroad (MAIE) | 86,970 | 8.33 | 1 | |
| Italian Associations in South America (AISA) | 64,325 | 6.16 | 0 | |
| Italy of Values (IdV) | 42,149 | 4.04 | 1 | |
| Socialist Party (PS) | 32,513 | 3.12 | 0 | |
| The Left – The Rainbow (SA) | 28,495 | 2.73 | 0 | |
| The Right – Tricolour Flame (LD–FT) | 14,974 | 1.43 | 0 | |
| The Other Sicily (LAS) | 9,251 | 0.89 | 0 | |
| Critical Left (SC) | 6,062 | 0.58 | 0 | |
| Italian Civic Consumers (CCI) | 4,878 | 0.47 | 0 | |
| Values and Future (VF) | 4,493 | 0.43 | 0 | |
| Total | 1,043,518 | 100.00 | 12 | |
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| Coalition | Party | Italy (18 regions) | Aosta Valley | Trentino-Alto Adige | Overseas | Total seats | +/– | ||||||||||
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| Votes | % | Seats | Votes | % | Seats | Votes | % | Seats | Votes | % | Seats | ||||||
| Centre-right coalition | The People of Freedom | 12,511,258 | 38.17 | 141 | 12,167 | 17.25 | 0 | 156,126 | 28.18 | 3 | 322,698 | 33.86 | 3 | 147 | +26 | ||
| Northern League | 2,642,280 | 8.06 | 25 | 2,081 | 2.95 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 25 | +11 | |||
| Movement for Autonomy | 355,361 | 1.08 | 2 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 2 | ||||
| Centre-left coalition | Democratic Party | 11,042,452 | 33.69 | 116 | — | — | — | 19,253 | 3.48 | 0 | 274,732 | 30.70 | 2 | 118 | +10 | ||
| Italy of Values | 1,414,730 | 4.32 | 14 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 38,357 | 4.02 | 0 | 14 | +10 | |||
| South Tyrolean People's Party | — | — | — | — | — | — | 252,669 | 45.61 | 4 | — | — | — | 4 | +1 | |||
| Union of the Centre | 1,866,356 | 5.69 | 3 | — | — | — | 32,511 | 5.87 | 0 | 57,817 | 6.07 | 0 | 3 | −18 | |||
| Aosta Valley | — | — | — | 29,191 | 41.39 | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 1 | +1 | |||
| Associative Movement of Italians Abroad | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 72,511 | 7.61 | 1 | 1 | New | |||
| Others | 2,941,902 | 8.98 | 0 | 27,151 | 38.41 | 0 | 93,380 | 16.86 | 0 | 187,029 | 17.74 | 0 | 0 | — | |||
| Total | 32,774,339 | 100 | 301 | 70,520 | 100 | 1 | 553,939 | 100 | 7 | 953,144 | 100 | 6 | 315 | ±0 | |||
| PdL | 38.17% | |||
| PD | 33.69% | |||
| LN | 8.06% | |||
| UdC | 5.69% | |||
| IdV | 4.32% | |||
| SA | 3.21% | |||
| LD–FT | 2.10% | |||
| MpA | 1.08% | |||
| Others | 3.68% | |||
| Coalition | Party | Votes | % | Seats | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Centre-right coalition | The People of Freedom (PdL) | 12,511,258 | 38.17 | 141 | ||
| Northern League (LN) | 2,642,280 | 8.06 | 25 | |||
| Movement for Autonomy (MpA) | 355,361 | 1.08 | 2 | |||
| Total | 15,508,899 | 47.32 | 168 | |||
| Centre-left coalition | Democratic Party (PD) | 11,042,452 | 33.69 | 116 | ||
| Italy of Values (IdV) | 1,414,730 | 4.32 | 14 | |||
| Total | 12,457,182 | 38.01 | 130 | |||
| Union of the Centre (UdC) | 1,866,356 | 5.69 | 3 | |||
| The Left – The Rainbow (SA) | 1,053,228 | 3.21 | 0 | |||
| The Right – Tricolour Flame (LD–FT) | 686,926 | 2.10 | 0 | |||
| Socialist Party (PS) | 284,837 | 0.87 | 0 | |||
| Workers' Communist Party (PCL) | 180,442 | 0.55 | 0 | |||
| Critical Left (SC) | 136,679 | 0.42 | 0 | |||
| For the Common Good (PBC) | 105,827 | 0.32 | 0 | |||
| Italian Liberal Party (PLI) | 100,759 | 0.31 | 0 | |||
| New Force (FN) | 85,564 | 0.26 | 0 | |||
| Democratic Union for Consumers (UDpC) | 78,139 | 0.24 | 0 | |||
| List of Talking Crickets (No Euro–Lega Padana–others) | 49,535 | 0.15 | 0 | |||
| Venetian Republic League (LVR) | 47,647 | 0.15 | 0 | |||
| League for Autonomy – Lombard Alliance (LAL) | 45,623 | 0.14 | 0 | |||
| European Movement Disabled Persons (MEDA) | 19,899 | 0.06 | 0 | |||
| Sardinian Action Party (PSd'Az) | 15,280 | 0.05 | 0 | |||
| United Populars (PU) | 12,389 | 0.04 | 0 | |||
| Marxist–Leninist Italian Communist Party (PCIM-L) | 8,094 | 0.02 | 0 | |||
| Southern League Ausonia (LSA) | 7,109 | 0.02 | 0 | |||
| Sardigna Natzione Indipendentzia (SNI) | 6,972 | 0.02 | 0 | |||
| Independentist Front Lombardy (FIL) | 5,234 | 0.02 | 0 | |||
| Venetian Agreement (IV) | 4,600 | 0.01 | 0 | |||
| Party of the South (PdS) | 3,727 | 0.01 | 0 | |||
| Free South | 1,795 | 0.01 | 0 | |||
| Thought and Action Party (PPA) | 1,597 | 0.00 | 0 | |||
| Total | 32,774,339 | 100.00 | 301 | |||
| Party | Votes | % | Seats | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aosta Valley (UV-SA-FA) | 29,191 | 41.39 | 1 | |
| Autonomy Liberty Democracy (ALD) | 26,377 | 37.40 | 0 | |
| The People of Freedom (PdL) | 12,167 | 17.25 | 0 | |
| Northern League (LN) | 2,081 | 2.95 | 0 | |
| Social Action (AS) | 712 | 1.01 | 0 | |
| Total | 70,520 | 100.00 | 1 | |
| Party | Votes | % | Seats | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The People of Freedom (PdL) | 156,126 | 28.18 | 3 | |
| SVP - Together for the Autonomies | 153,721 | 27.75 | 2 | |
| South Tyrolean People's Party (SVP) | 98,948 | 17.86 | 2 | |
| The Left – The Rainbow (SA) | 39,957 | 7.21 | 0 | |
| Union of the Centre (UdC) | 32,511 | 5.87 | 0 | |
| Die Freiheitlichen (DF) | 24,772 | 4.47 | 0 | |
| Democratic Party (PD) | 19,253 | 3.48 | 0 | |
| The Right – Tricolour Flame (LD–FT) | 16,462 | 2.97 | 0 | |
| Union for South Tyrol (UfS) | 11,820 | 2.13 | 0 | |
| Socialist Party (PS) | 369 | 0.07 | 0 | |
| Total | 553,939 | 100.00 | 7 | |
| Party | Votes | % | Seats | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The People of Freedom (PdL) | 322,698 | 33.86 | 3 | |
| Democratic Party (PD) | 314,703 | 33.02 | 2 | |
| Associative Movement of Italians Abroad (MAIE) | 72,511 | 7.61 | 1 | |
| Italian Associations in South America (AISA) | 60,794 | 6.38 | 0 | |
| Union of the Centre (UdC) | 57,817 | 6.07 | 0 | |
| Italy of Values (IdV) | 38,357 | 4.02 | 0 | |
| Socialist Party (PS) | 28,149 | 2.95 | 0 | |
| The Left - The Rainbow (SA) | 27,067 | 2.84 | 0 | |
| The Right – Tricolour Flame (LD–FT) | 13,139 | 1.38 | 0 | |
| The Other Sicily (LAS) | 8,391 | 0.88 | 0 | |
| Critical Left (SC) | 5,855 | 0.61 | 0 | |
| Italian Civic Consumers (CCI) | 3,663 | 0.38 | 0 | |
| Total | 953,144 | 100.00 | 6 | |
| Region | Coalitions | Majority bonus winner | Senators | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Centre-right coalition | Centre-left coalition | Union of the Centre | Others | |||
 Lombardy | 19 (PdL) 11 (LN) | 15 (PD) 2 (IdV) | CDX | 47 | ||
 Campania | 18 (PdL) | 10 (PD) 2 (IdV) | CDX | 30 | ||
 Lazio | 15 (PdL) | 11 (PD) 1 (IdV) | CDX | 27 | ||
 Sicily | 13 (PdL) 2 (MpA) | 7 (PD) 1 (IdV) | 3 (UdC) | CDX | 26 | |
 Veneto | 8 (PdL) 7 (LN) | 8 (PD) 1 (IdV) | CDX | 24 | ||
 Piedmont | 10 (PdL) 3 (LN) | 8 (PD) 1 (IdV) | CDX | 22 | ||
 Emilia-Romagna | 7 (PdL) 2 (LN) | 11 (PD) 1 (IdV) | CSX | 21 | ||
 Apulia | 12 (PdL) | 8 (PD) 1 (IdV) | CDX | 21 | ||
 Tuscany | 7 (PdL) | 10 (PD) 1 (IdV) | CSX | 18 | ||
 Calabria | 6 (PdL) | 4 (PD) | CDX | 10 | ||
 Sardinia | 5 (PdL) | 4 (PD) | CDX | 9 | ||
 Liguria | 4 (PdL) 1 (LN) | 3 (PD) | CDX | 8 | ||
 Marche | 3 (PdL) | 5 (PD) | CSX | 8 | ||
 Abruzzo | 4 (PdL) | 2 (PD) 1 (IdV) | CDX | 7 | ||
 Friuli-Venezia Giulia | 3 (PdL) 1 (LN) | 3 (PD) | CDX | 7 | ||
 Trentino-South Tyrol | 3 (PdL) | 2 (SVP - IpA) 2 (SVP) | N/A | 7 | ||
 Umbria | 3 (PdL) | 4 (PD) | CSX | 7 | ||
 Basilicata | 3 (PdL) | 3 (PD) 1 (IdV) | CSX | 7 | ||
 Molise | 1 (PdL) | 1 (PD) | N/A | 2 | ||
 Aosta Valley | 1 (VA) | N/A | 1 | |||
| Italians abroad | 3 (PdL) | 2 (PD) | 1 (MAIE) | N/A | 6 | |
| Total | 174 | 132 | 3 | 5 | 315 | |
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