1963 Italian general election

The 1963 Italian general election was held on Sunday April 28. It was the first election with a fixed number of MPs to be elected, as decided by the second Constitutional Reform in February 1963. It was also the first election which saw the Secretary of Christian Democracy to refuse the office of Prime Minister after the vote, at least for six months, preferring to provisionally maintain his more influent post at the head of the party: this fact confirmed the transformation of Italian political system into a particracy, the secretaries of the parties having become more powerful than the Parliament and the Government.

1963 Italian general election
28 April 1963
All 630 seats in the Chamber of Deputies
316 seats needed for a majority
All 315 elective seats in the Senate
161 seats needed for a majority
Registered34,199,184 (C) · 31,019,23 (S)
Turnout31,766,009 (C) · 92.9% (0.9 pp)
28,872,052 (S) · 93.1% (0.9 pp)
  Majority party Minority party Third party
 
Leader Aldo Moro Palmiro Togliatti Pietro Nenni
Party DC PCI PSI
Leader since 16 March 1959 15 May 1943 16 May 1949
Leader's seat Bari (C) Rome (S) Milan (C)
Seats won 260 (C) / 129 (S) 166 (C) / 84 (S) 87 (C) / 44 (S)
Seat change 13 (C) / 6 (S) 26 (C) / 25 (S) 3 (C) / 9 (S)
Popular vote 11,773,182 (C)
10,017,975 (S)		 7,767,601 (C)
6,461,616 (S)		 4,255,836 (C)
3,849,440 (S)
Percentage 38.3% (C)
36.5% (S)		 25.3% (C)
23.5% (S)		 13.8% (C)
14.0% (S)
Swing 4.1 pp (C)
4.7 pp (S)		 2.6 pp (C)
1.7 pp (S)		 0.4 pp (C)
0.1 pp (S)
  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 
Leader Giovanni Malagodi Giuseppe Saragat Arturo Michelini
Party PLI PSDI MSI
Leader since 4 April 1954 11 April 1957 10 October 1954
Leader's seat Milan (C) Turin (C) Rome (C)
Seats won 39 (C) / 18 (S) 33 (C) / 14 (S) 27 (C) / 14 (S)
Seat change 22 (C) / 14 (S) 11 (C) / 9 (S) 3 (C) / 6 (S)
Popular vote 2,144,270 (C)
2,043,323 (S)		 1,876,271 (C)
1,743,870 (S)		 1,570,282 (C)
1,458,917 (S)
Percentage 7.0% (C)
7.4% (S)		 6.1% (C)
6.4% (S)		 5.1% (C)
5.3% (S)
Swing 3.5 pp (C)
3.5 pp (S)		 1.5 pp (C)
1.9 pp (S)		 0.3 pp (C)
0.9 pp (S)
Prime Minister before election

Amintore Fanfani
DC

 Prime Minister after the election

Giovanni Leone
DC

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