1992 Italian general election

Italian general election, 1992

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All 630 seats in the Italian Chamber of Deputies and 315 (of the 325) seats in the Italian Senate
Turnout	87.3%
First party Second party Third party   Leader Arnaldo Forlani Achille Occhetto Bettino Craxi Party Christian Democracy Democratic Party of the Left Socialist Party Leader since 1989 1988 1976 Leader's seat XVIII - Marche XX - Latium III - Milan Seats won 206 C / 107 S 107 C / 66 S 92 C / 49 S Seat change 46 C / 18 S 51 C / 45 S 2 C / 5 S Popular vote 11,637,569 C 9,088,494 S 6,317,962 C 5,682,888 S 5,343,808 C 4,523,873 S Percentage 29.7% (C) 27.3% (S) 16.1% (C) 17.0% (S) 13.6% (C) 13.6% (S) Swing 4.6% C 5.3% S 10.5% C 11.3% S 0.7% C 2.6% S
Legislative election results map. Light Blue denotes provinces with a Christian Democratic plurality, Red denotes those with a PDS plurality, Green denotes those with a Lega Nord plurality, Gray and Brown denotes those with a Regionalist plurality.
Prime Minister before election Giulio Andreotti Christian Democracy Elected Prime Minister Giuliano Amato Socialist Party

Giulio Andreotti
Christian Democracy

Giuliano Amato
Socialist Party

General elections were held in Italy on April 5, 1992 for the 11th Parliament of the Republic. They were the first without the traditionally second most important political force in Italian politics, the Italian Communist Party (PCI), which had been disbanded in 1991. It was replaced by a more social-democratic oriented force, the Democratic Party of the Left (PDS), and by a minority entity formed by members who did not want to renounce the communist tradition, the Communist Refoundation Party (PRC). However, put together they gained around 4% less than what the already declining PCI had obtained in the 1987 Italian general election, despite PRC had absorbed the disbanded Proletarian Democracy (DP).

The other major feature was the sudden rise of the federalist Northern League, which increased its vote from 0.5% of the preceding elections to more than 8%, increasing from a single member both in the Chamber and the Senate to 55 and 25, respectively. The long wave ("onda lunga") of Bettino Craxi's now centrist-oriented Italian Socialist Party, which in the past elections had been forecast next to overcome PCI, seemed to stop. Christian Democracy and the other traditional government parties, with the exception of the Republicans and the Liberals, also experienced a slight decrease in their vote.