1985 Lombard regional election

The Lombard regional election of 1985 took place on 12 May 1985. The 4th 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 party, despite a slight decline in term of votes. After the election Giuseppe Guzzetti was re-elected president for the third time at the head of a center-left coalition comprising also the PSI, the PSDI and the PRI. In 1986 Guzzetti was replaced by Bruno Tabacci, to whom Giuseppe Giovenzana succeeded in 1989.

 Summary of the 12 May 1985 Lombard regional election

Party			Votes	%	+/−	Seats	+/−
	Christian Democracy	DC	2,204,685	36.03	2.83	31	3
	Italian Communist Party	PCI	1,632,676	26.68	1.47	22	1
	Italian Socialist Party	PSI	941,395	15.38	0.92	12	1
	Italian Social Movement	MSI	363,918	5.95	1.58	4	1
	Italian Republican Party	PRI	293,359	4.79	2.14	4	2
	Italian Democratic Socialist Party	PSDI	170,763	2.79	1.73	2	1
	Green Lists	LV	146,835	2.40	2.40	2	2
	Italian Liberal Party	PLI	143,641	2.35	1.07	1	1
	Proletarian Democracy	DP	136,781	2.24	0.56	2	1
	National Pensioners' Party	PNP	32,945	0.54	0.54	0	0
	Lega Lombarda	LL	28,074	0.46	0.46	0	0
	Democratic Party	PD	15,475	0.25	0.25	0	0
	Humanist Party	PU	4,448	0.07	0.07	0	0
	National Monarchist Party	PMN	4,352	0.07	0.07	0	0
Total valid votes			6,119,347			80
Blank votes			185,726
Invalid votes (blank included)			331,013
Total			6,450,360
Registered voters & turnout			6,950,380	92.81

Source: Ministry of the Interior