Italian general election, 1919

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General elections were held in Italy on 16 November 1919. The fragmented Liberal governing coalition lost the absolute majority in the Chamber of Deputies, due to the success of the Italian Socialist Party and the Italian People's Party. The Socialists received the most votes in almost every region and especially in Emilia-Romagna (60.0%), Piedmont (49.7%), Lombardy (45.9%), Tuscany (41.7%) and Umbria (46.5%), while the People's Party were the largest party in Veneto (42.6%) and came second in Lombardy (30.1%) and the Liberal lists were stronger in Southern Italy (over 50% in Abruzzo, Campania, Basilicata, Apulia, Calabria and Sicily).

Electoral system

The old system of using single-member constituencies with two-round majority voting was abolished and replaced with proportional representation in 58 constituencies with between 5 and 20 members.

Results

Party	Votes	%	Seats	+/–
Italian Socialist Party	1,834,792	32.3	156	+104
Italian People's Party	1,167,354	20.5	100	New
Liberal-Democratic-Radical	904,195	15.9	96	–
Italian Social Democratic Party	622,310	10.9	60	New
Italian Liberal Party	490,384	8.6	41	–
Fighters' Party	232,923	4.1	20	New
Radical Party	110,697	1.9	12	–
Economic Party	87,450	1.5	7	New
Italian Reform Socialist Party	82,157	1.4	6	–13
Dissident People's Party	65,421	1.2	0	New
Italian Republican Party	53,197	0.9	9	+1
Independent Socialists	33,938	0.6	1	–7
Invalid/blank votes	108,674	–	–	–
Total	5,793,492	100	508	0
Registered voters/turnout	10,239,326	56.6	–	–