2008 Italian general election
A snap election was held in Italy on 13–14 April 2008. The election came after President Giorgio Napolitano dissolved the Italian Parliament on 6 February 2008, following the defeat of the government of Prime Minister Romano Prodi in a January 2008 Senate vote of confidence and the unsuccessful tentative appointment of Franco Marini with the aim to change the current electoral law. Under Italian law, elections must be held within 70 days of the dissolution. The voting determined the leader of Italy's 62nd government since the end of World War II. The coalition led by ex-Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi from The People of Freedom party defeated that of former Mayor of Rome, Walter Veltroni of the Democratic Party.
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All 630 seats in the Chamber of Deputies 316 seats needed for a majority All 315 elective seats in the Senate 162 seats needed for a majority | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Registered | 47,041,814 (C) · 42,358,775 (S) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Turnout | 37,874,569 (C) · 80.5% (3.1 pp) 34,058,406 (S) · 80.4% (3.1 pp) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Election results maps for the Chamber of Deputies (on the left) and for the Senate (on the right). On the left, the color identifies the coalition which received the most votes in each province. On the right, the color identifies the coalition which won the most seats in respect to each Region. Blue denotes the Centre-right coalition, Red the Centre-left coalition, and Gray regional parties. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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