Italian general election, 1987

Italian general election, 1987

← 1983 14 June 1987 1992 →
All 630 seats in the Italian Chamber of Deputies 315 (of the 323) seats in the Italian Senate
Turnout	88.8%
First party Second party Third party   Leader Ciriaco De Mita Alessandro Natta Bettino Craxi Party Christian Democracy Communist Party Socialist Party Leader since 1982 1984 1976 Leader's seat XXIV - Eastern Campania III - Ligury III - Milan Last election 225 & 120 seats, 32.9% 198 & 107 seats, 29.9% 73 & 38 seats, 14.3% Seats won 234 (H) 125 (S) 177 (H) 101 (S) 94 (H) 36 (S) Seat change 14 27 19 Popular vote 13,241,188 10,254,591 5,505,690 Percentage 34.3% 26.6% 14.3% Swing 1.4% 3.3% 2.9%
Legislative election results map. Light Blue denotes provinces with a Christian Democratic plurality, Red denotes those with a Communist plurality, Gray and Brown denotes those with an Autonomist plurality.
PM before election Amintore Fanfani Christian Democracy Elected PM Giovanni Goria Christian Democracy

Amintore Fanfani
Christian Democracy

Giovanni Goria
Christian Democracy

General elections were held in Italy on June 14, 1987. This election marked the final inversion of the trend of the entire republican history of Italy: for the first time, the distance between the Christian Democrats and the Communists grew significantly instead of decreasing, and this fact was seen as the result of the deindustrialization of the country. The growth of the service sector of the economy, and the leadership of former PM Bettino Craxi, gave instead a new strength to the Socialists. A remarkable novelty was the rise of the new Green Lists, while a new party obtained its first two parliamentary seats: the North League.

The pure party-list proportional representation had traditionally become the electoral system for the Chamber of Deputies. Italian provinces were united in 32 constituencies, each electing a group of candidates. At constituency level, seats were divided between open lists using the largest remainder method with Imperiali quota. Remaining votes and seats were transferred at national level, where they was divided using the Hare quota, and automatically distributed to best losers into the local lists.

For the Senate, 237 single-seat constituencies were established, even if the assembly had risen to 315 members. The candidates needed a landslide victory of two thirds of votes to be elected, a goal which could be reached only by the German minorities in South Tirol. All remained votes and seats were grouped in party lists and regional constituencies, where a D'Hondt method was used: inside the lists, candidates with the best percentages were elected.