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Lombardy regional election, 1980 Turnout 92.48%
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
2
2
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Popular vote
2,240,861
1,623,532
834,111
Percentage
38.9%
28.2%
14.5%
Swing
1.4%
2.2%
0.4%
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
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