1975 Tuscan regional election

1975 Tuscan regional election

15 June 1975

All 50 seats to the Regional Council of Tuscany

Party Vote % Seats +/– PCI 46.5% 25 +2 DC 28.5% 15 −2 PSI 10.7% 4 +1 MSI 4.2% 2 +1 PSDI 3.9% 2 −1 PRI 2.7% 1 0 PdUP 2.1% 1 New This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below. Major party in each municipality.

The Tuscan regional election of 1975 took place on 15 June 1975.

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 Italian Communist Party was by far the largest party. After the election Lelio Lagorio (Italian Socialist Party), the incumbent President of the Region, formed a new government with the Italian Communist Party. In 1978 Mario Leone, another Socialist, took over from Lagorio.

Parties		votes	votes (%)	seats
	Italian Communist Party	1,169,858	46.5	25
	Christian Democracy	717,338	28.5	15
	Italian Socialist Party	269,074	10.7	4
	Italian Social Movement	106,580	4.2	2
	Italian Democratic Socialist Party	97,649	3.9	2
	Italian Republican Party	66,704	2.7	1
	Proletarian Unity Party	51,834	2.1	1
	Italian Liberal Party	30,096	1.2	-
	Popular Unity	7.996	0.3	-
	Democratic Socialist Refoundation Union	488	0.0	-
Total		2,517,617	100.0	50

Source: Ministry of the Interior