Italian general election, 2001

Italian general election, 2001

← 1996 13 May 2001 2006 →
All 630 seats in the Italian Chamber of Deputies 315 seats in the Italian Senate
Turnout	81.4%
First party Second party Third party   Leader Silvio Berlusconi Francesco Rutelli Fausto Bertinotti Party Forza Italia The Daisy Communist Refoundation Alliance House of Freedoms The Olive Tree Leader's seat Milan Centre Rome Praenestine Turin Centre Seats won 368 C / 176 S 241 C / 128 S 11 C / 4 S Seat change 96 C / 33 S 82 C / 29 S 30 C / 6 S Coalition vote 18,398,246 C 14,406,519 S 13,023,651 C 13,106,860 S 1,868,659 C 1,708,707 S Percentage 49.56% (C) 42.53% (S) 35.08% (C) 38.70% (S) 5.0% (C) 5.04% (S)
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.
Prime Minister before election Giuliano Amato The Olive Tree Elected Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi House of Freedoms

Giuliano Amato
The Olive Tree

Silvio Berlusconi
House of Freedoms

A national general election was held in Italy on 13 May 2001 to elect members of the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate of the Republic. The 14th Parliament of the Italian republic was chosen.

The election was won by the centre-right coalition House of Freedoms led by Silvio Berlusconi, defeating Francesco Rutelli, former Mayor of Rome, and Prime Ministerial candidate of the centre-left coalition The Olive Tree, and rising back to power after Berlusconi's first victory, in the 1994 general election.

The intricate electoral system, called scorporo, provided 75% of the seats on the Chamber of Deputies (the Lower House) as elected by first-past-the-post system, whereas the remaining 25% was assigned on a proportional way with a minimum threshold of 4%.

The method used for the Senate was even more complicated: 75% of seats by uninominal method, and 25% by a special proportional method that assigned the remaining seats to minority parties. Formally, these were examples of additional member systems.

For this election Berlusconi again ran as leader of the centre-right coalition the House of Freedoms (Italian: La Casa delle Libertà), which included the Union of Christian and Centre Democrats, the Lega Nord, the National Alliance and other parties.