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1980 Lombard regional election

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Lombardy regional election, 1980

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

President of Lombardy before election

Giuseppe Guzzetti
DC

Elected President of Lombardy

Giuseppe Guzzetti
DC

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

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 Democracy 2,240,861 38.86 34
Italian Communist Party 1,623,352 28.15 23
Italian Socialist Party 834,111 14.46 11
Italian Democratic Socialist Party 260,611 4.52 3
Italian Social Movement 251,745 4.37 3
Italian Liberal Party 197,301 3.42 2
Italian Republican Party 152,605 2.65 2
Proletarian Democracy 96,882 1.68 1
Proletarian Unity Party 86,631 1.50 1
Association for Trieste 10,001 0.17 0
Milanese List 3,825 0.07 0
Social Action Christian Party 2,738 0.05 0
Revolutionary Communist League 2,590 0.04 0
European Workers' Party 2,529 0.04 0
Revolutionary Socialist League 1,086 0.02 0
Total valid votes 5,766,868 80
Blank votes 233,742
Invalid votes (blank included) 380,286
Total 6,147,154
Registered voters & turnout 6,647,073 92.48

Source: Ministry of the Interior

Seats by province

Province DC PCI PSI PSDI MSI PLI PRI DP PdUP Total
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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