Lombardy renewed its delegation to the Italian Senate on April 21, 1996. This election was a part of national Italian general election of 1996 even if, according to the Italian Constitution, every senatorial challenge in each Region is a single and independent race.
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The election was won by the centre-left coalition called The Olive Tree.
Electoral system
editThe intricate electoral system introduced in 1993, called Mattarella Law, provided 75% of the seats in the Senate as elected by first-past-the-post system, whereas the remaining 25% was assigned by a special proportional method that actually assigned the remaining seats to minority parties.
Results
edit| Coalition | votes | votes (%) | seats | Party | seats | change |
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| The Olive Tree | 1,928,868 | 34.2 | 19 | Democratic Party of the Left | 11 |  8
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| Italian People's Party | 4 | 1
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| Federation of the Greens | 2 | 2
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| Italian Renewal | 1 | 1
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| Italian Republican Party | 1 | 1
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| Pole for Freedoms | 1,853,453 | 32.8 | 16 | Forza Italia | 10 | 1
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| National Alliance | 5 | 4
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| Federalist Party | 1 | 1
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| Northern League | 1,376,124 | 24.4 | 11 | Northern League | 11 |  15
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| Alliance of Progressives | 50,235 | 0.9 | 1 | Communist Refoundation Party | 1 | 1
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| Others | 437,745 | 7.7 | - | Others | - | - |
| Total coalitions | 5,646,425 | 100.0 | 47 | Total parties | 47 | = |
Sources: Ministry of the Interior, Italian Senate
Constituencies
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Additional senators
edit- Pole for Freedoms
- Antonino Caruso (National Alliance, 40.1%)
- Enrico Pianetta (Forza Italia, 39.0%)
- Sergio Travaglia (Forza Italia, 38.1%)
- Enrico Rizzi (Forza Italia, 35.0%)
- Michele Bucci (Forza Italia, 34.8%)
- The Olive Tree
- Antonio Duva (Italian Republican Party, 38.6%)
- Anna Maria Bernasconi (Democratic Party of the Left, 37.0%)
- Vera Squarcialupi (Democratic Party of the Left, 36.2%)
- Felice Besostri (Democratic Party of the Left, 35.4%)
- Lega Nord
- Francesco Speroni (Lega Nord, 32.0%)[2]
- Sergio Rossi (Lega Nord, 31.9%)
- Massimo Wilde (Lega Nord, 31.0%)
Notes
edit- ^ Instead, the previous centre-right alliance was mainly composed by the League and Forza Italia and obtained a 43% of votes.
- ^ He resigned in 1999 when he became MEP. He was then substituted by Giuseppe Leoni.