Next Italian general election

← 2013

No later than
23 May 2018

All 630 seats of the Chamber of Deputies
and all elective 315 seats of the Senate of the Republic


Leader	Matteo Orfini (ad interim)	Beppe Grillo	Silvio Berlusconi
Party	Democratic Party	Five Star Movement	Forza Italia
Leader since	19 February 2017	4 October 2009	18 January 1994
Last election	297 C / 111 S, 25.5%	109 C / 54 S, 25.1%	98 C / 98 S, 21.6%
Current seats	285 C / 99 S	91 C / 35 S	50 C / 42 S


Leader	Enrico Rossi	Angelino Alfano	Matteo Salvini
Party	Democrats and Progressives	New Centre-Right	Northern League
Leader since	25 February 2017	15 November 2013	15 December 2013
Last election	new party	new party	18 C / 18 S, 4.1%
Current seats	36 C / 14 S	22 C / 24 S	19 C / 12 S


Leader	Nicola Fratoianni	Giorgia Meloni	Giuliano Pisapia
Party	Italian Left	Brothers of Italy	Progressive Camp
Leader since	19 February 2017	17 December 2012	14 February 2017
Last election	new party	9 C / 0 S, 2.0%	new party
Current seats	15 C / 8 S	11 C / 0 S	0 C / 0 S

Incumbent Prime Minister

Paolo Gentiloni
Democratic Party

The next Italian general election is due to be held no later than 23 May 2018, that is to say no later than seventy days after the natural expiration of the current five-year parliamentary term on 15 March 2018.

Voters will elect the 630 members of the Chamber of Deputies and the 315 elective members of the Senate of the Republic for the 18th Parliament.

At the 2013 general election neither of the two main coalitions, the centre-right led by Silvio Berlusconi and the centre-left led by Pier Luigi Bersani, won an outright majority in Parliament, partly due to the strong showing by the Five Star Movement (M5S).

After a failed attempt by Bersani, then-secretary of the Democratic Party (PD), to form a government during the final days of the first presidential term of Giorgio Napolitano, the re-elected President gave Enrico Letta, Bersani's deputy, the task of forming a grand coalition government. Letta eventually formed a cabinet composed of members of the PD, Berlusconi's The People of Freedom (PdL) – replaced by the New Centre-Right (NCD) in November 2013 –, Civic Choice (SC), the Union of the Centre (UdC), one member of the Italian Radicals and three independents.

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