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National-level elections in Italy are called periodically to form a parliament consisting of two houses: the Chamber of Deputies (Camera dei Deputati) with 400 members; and the Senate of the Republic (Senato della Repubblica) with 200 elected members, plus a few appointed senators for life.
Any Italian citizen over the age of 18 on the election day is eligible to elect the members of the Italian parliament. [3]In order to be eligible to stand for election to the Chamber of Deputies, an individual must be over the age of 25 on the election day, and in order to be eligible to stand for election to the Senate of the Republic, an individual must be over the age of 40 on the election day.
This is a list of Italian constituencies from 1946 to present. For the election of the Italian Chamber of Deputies , since 1993 Italy is divided in 27 districts called circoscrizioni . However, the distribution of seats being calculated at national level, districts serve only to choose the single candidates inside the party lists.
The 2024 Italian local elections were held in various Italian local communities on 8-9 June 2024, at the same time as the European elections and the Piedmontese election, [1] with a run-off round on 23–24 June.
A bloc of conservative parties, led by the far-right Brothers of Italy, looks likely to win a clear majority at the next elections, which might come as early as September, a study of recent ...
The first modern political party in Italy was the Italian Socialist Party, established in 1892. [1] Until then, the main political groupings of the country, the Historical Right and the Historical Left, were not classifiable as parties, but as simple groups of notables, each with their own electoral fiefdom, that joined together according to their own ideas. [2]
The 2023 Italian regional elections took place in regions of Italy during 2023. [1] Overall results. Region Election day Incumbent president Party Elected president
The autonomous region of Aosta Valley in northwestern Italy elects one member to the Chamber of Deputies through a direct first-past-the-post election. Some parties that formed electoral coalitions in Italy might have opted to run against one another, or form different coalitions, in this particular region. [13] [14]