1970 Lombard regional election

The Lombard regional election of 1970 took place on 7 June 1970. It was the first-ever regional election.

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 and christian-democrat Piero Bassetti was able to form a strong center-left government with the support of the PSI, the PSDI and the PRI. Bassetti was replaced by Cesare Golfari in 1974.

 Summary of the 7 June 1970 Lombard regional election

Party			Votes	%	Seats
	Christian Democracy	DC	2,138,141	40.90	36
	Italian Communist Party	PCI	1,210,068	23.14	19
	Italian Socialist Party	PSI	648,696	12.41	9
	Unified Socialist Party	PSU	376,436	7.20	5
	Italian Liberal Party	PLI	310,324	5.94	4
	Italian Social Movement	MSI	195,791	3.74	3
	Italian Socialist Party of Proletarian Unity	PSIUP	188,585	3.61	2
	Italian Republican Party	PRI	125,767	2.41	2
	Italian Democratic Party of Monarchist Unity	PDIUM	31,119	0.60	0
	Italian Autonomist Union	UAI	3,389	0.06	0
Total valid votes			5,228,316		80
Blank votes			161,676
Invalid votes (blank included)			225,720
Total			5,453,931
Registered voters & turnout			5,710,352	95.51

Source: Ministry of the Interior

Seats by province

Province	DC	PCI	PSI	PSU	PLI	MSI	PSIUP	PRI	Total
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Milan	12	9	4	3	3	2	1	1	35
Brescia	5	2	1	1	-	1	1	-	11
Bergamo	5	1	1	1	-	-	-	-	8
Como	4	1	1	-	1	-	-	-	7
Varese	3	1	1	-	-	-	-	1	6
Mantua	2	2	1	-	-	-	-	-	5
Pavia	2	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	4
Cremona	2	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	3
Sondrio	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1
Total	36	19	9	5	4	3	2	2	80