Italian general election, 2013

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All 630 seats to the Italian Chamber of Deputies and 315 (out of the 319) seats to the Italian Senate Turnout 75.19%[1]   First party Second party   Leader Pier Luigi Bersani Silvio Berlusconi Party Democratic Party The People of Freedom Alliance Italy. Common Good Centre-right coalition Leader since 25 October 2009 18 January 1994 Seats won 345 (C) 123 (S) 125 (C) 117 (S) Popular vote 10,047,507 (coalition) 9,923,100 (coalition) Percentage 29.5% (coalition) 29.1% (coalition)   Third party Fourth party   Leader Beppe Grillo Mario Monti Party Five Star Movement Civic Choice Alliance Five Star Movement With Monti for Italy Leader since 4 October 2009 28 December 2012 Seats won 109 (C) 54 (S) 47 (C) 19 (S) Popular vote 8,688,545 (party) 3,591,560 (coalition) Percentage 25.5% (party) 10.5% (coalition)

PD      PdL      SVP      UV

Prime Minister before election   Mario Monti Civic Choice

A general election took place on 24–25 February 2013 to determine the 630 members of the Italian Chamber of Deputies and the 315 elective members of the Senate for the 17th Parliament of the Italian Republic.^[2][3] According to results, the centre-left alliance Italy. Common Good led by the Democratic Party obtained a clear majority of seats in the Chamber of Deputies, thanks to a majority bonus that has effectively trebled the number of seats assigned to the winning force, while in the popular vote it narrowly defeated the centre-right alliance of former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. Close behind, the new anti-establishment Five Star Movement of comedian Beppe Grillo became the third force, clearly ahead of the centrist coalition of outgoing Prime Minister Mario Monti. In the Senate, no political group or party won an outright majority, resulting effectively in a hung parliament.^[4][5]

Contents 1 Background 2 Campaign 3 Electoral system 4 Coalitions and electoral lists 5 Opinion polls 6 Results for Chamber of Deputies 6.1 Italy (main electoral region) 6.2 Valle d'Aosta 6.3 Italian citizens in other countries 6.4 Seat totals in the Chamber of Deputies 6.5 Overall result 7 Results for the Senate 7.1 Italy (main electoral region) 7.2 Trentino-Alto Adige (South Tyrol) 7.3 Valle d'Aosta 7.4 Italian citizens in other countries 7.5 Seat totals in the Senate 7.6 By region 7.7 Overall result 8 Reaction and aftermath 9 References 10 External links

Background

Following the European sovereign debt crisis, Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi resigned from his position in November 2011; he was also facing criminal charges, including allegations of sex with an underage prostitute. He was replaced as Prime Minister by technocratic Senator for Life Mario Monti.

In December 2012, Berlusconi announced his intention to run for Prime Minister for a fourth time. Shortly after, his party, People of Freedom (PdL), withdrew endorsement for Monti's Cabinet and Monti announced he would resign^[6] after sending the annual budget to parliament, which was expected by Christmas. The Constitution of Italy then requires an election to be held within 70 days of the dissolution of parliament by President Giorgio Napolitano. Monti's resignation came after he said that, following the PdL's withdrawal, he "matured [to] the conviction that we could not continue like this any longer,"^[7] and that he could not govern with a loss of support for his platform.^[8]

During Monti's tenure, Italy had faced tax increases and state spending cuts, as well as reforms intended to improve the competitiveness of the Italian economy.^[9] On the other hand, PdL parliamentary party leader Angelino Alfano told parliament on 7 December that Italy's debt, unemployment, and tax rates had risen in contrast to the economy since Monti became prime minister.^[7][10] In the approximately one year since Monti took office, unemployment rose by almost two percent.^[10] Previously Monti had controversially told the rising tide of youth unemployment to forget about a steady job for life, saying such is "monotonous [anyway and] it's nice to change and take on challenges." He also called for changes to Article 18 of the 1970 Workers Statute that forbids companies with over 15 employees from sacking an employee without "just cause", saying that it "can be pernicious for Italy's growth."^[11]

Monti was supported by other Eurozone leaders, such as Germany's Angela Merkel and former French President Nicolas Sarkozy.^[12] Merkel's spokesman, Georg Streiter, said that she had "always worked well" with Monti and "had a relationship of esteem"; however, when asked about Berlusconi, he said it was not up to him to decide domestic politics of other countries.^[13] German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble added that he did not foresee "any destabilisation in the eurozone [but] expect[ed] Italy to keep going forward by respecting its European commitments."^[14] In reaction, financial markets fell on speculation of further instability;^[15][16] while, specifically, Italian 10-year bond yields rose by 0.4% to reach 4.87% and the Italian stock exchange's flagship index dropped by over 3.5%.^[17]

Campaign

From the summer of 2012, a number of parties and movements from the so-called "Third Pole" of the political spectrum, including Pier Ferdinando Casini's Union of the Centre (UdC), Gianfranco Fini's Future and Freedom (FLI), Luca Cordero di Montezemolo's Toward the Third Republic (VTR), as well as a number of other politicians from both PD and PdL, pushed for direct involvement of Mario Monti in an election. Monti's statement that he would resign after the budget was passed, was suggested by Reuters to be indicative of him seeking to run for office.

Monti also told a press conference in France that "populism" was dangerous, and he further said that a failure to pass the budget "would render more serious the government crisis, also at a European level" and that his resignation would then be "irrevocable." The two largest parties in parliament, the PdL and the Democratic Party (PD) said they would be willing to work together to expedite passage of the budget. PD Secretary Pier Luigi Bersani said: "Faced with the irresponsibility of the right that betrayed a commitment it made a year ago before the whole country...Monti responded with an act of dignity that we profoundly respect." PD Deputy Secretary Enrico Letta said of the PdL's withdrawal from the government that "the financial markets will judge this latest outburst by Berlusconi and they certainly will not judge it positively." Bersani had won the centre-left primary election shortly before the PdL withdrew from the government.^[12] Following a defeat in the primary, Mayor of Florence Matteo Renzi ruled out an approach, in writing, from Berlusconi's PdL to join the party during the election. In the following weeks, both PD and Left Ecology Freedom (SEL) announced their intention to hold primary elections for MP candidates on 29 and 30 December.

The possibility of Monti directly involving himself in the election was seen as increasingly likely after the government crisis in December later that year, as Monti was invited to a European People's Party meeting at which Berlusconi was present too. A few days later, Monti published a political agenda for Italy, dubbed the "Monti agenda", and offered it to all political parties. After the Third Pole promptly agreed to use it as their own platform for the upcoming elections, talks started regarding a direct involvement of Monti as premiership candidate. On 28 December 2012, following a 4-hour meeting and after being publicly backed by the Vatican regarding a potential bid, Monti publicly announced his candidacy as head of the Third Pole, which ran in the Senate as a unique component provisionally named "Monti's Agenda for Italy", and in the Lower House as a coalition of several components.^[18]

Berlusconi said the platform his party would run on includes opposition to Monti's economic performance, which he said put Italy into a "recessive spiral without end." He also told the media, on the sidelines of AC Milan's practice session (the football club he owns along with Mediaset, the largest media outlet in the country): ""I race to win. To win, everyone said there had to be a tested leader. It's not that we did not look for one. We did, and how! But there isn't one...I'm doing it out of a sense of responsibility." Berlusconi and Five Star Movement (M5S) leader Beppe Grillo criticised the eurozone and Germany's influence on European policy. Grillo wrote that the average Italian "is literally terrified about the prospects of five more years of Monti-like rule."^[19]

On 8 December 2012, a new political party formed around a think tank named "Fermare il Declino" (Stop the Decline), on an initiative by the economic journalist Oscar Giannino and supported by various economists. On 19 December 2012, the name "FARE per Fermare il Declinio" ("ACT to Stop The Decline") was chosen, and a list was presented with Oscar Giannino as PM candidate. The party's programme^[20] was also introduced, roughly inspiring to reduce the role of the State in the economy, reduce the national debt through disposing redundant assets, and to propose market liberalizations and privatizations.

On 29 December 2012, a new coalition, Civil Revolution (RC), was formed with the support of Italy of Values (IdV), Orange Movement (MA), Federation of the Left (FdS), and Federation of the Greens (FdV). It is led by celebrity magistrate Antonio Ingroia and Mayor of Naples Luigi de Magistris. FdS co-leader Paolo Ferrero said it would be a "Fourth Pole" that would bring new hope for the left.^[21] Civil Revolution attempted to solicit M5S to join them, saying "the door is open." Grillo, however, turned them down, writing on his blog "... the door is open for M5S? Well, thank you, but close the door again, please."^[22]

On 7 January 2013, Berlusconi announced he had penned a coalition agreement with Lega Nord (LN); as part of it, PdL will support Roberto Maroni's bid for the presidency of Lombardy, and he will run as "leader of the coalition", but suggested he could accept a role as Minister of Economy under a cabinet headed by another People of Freedom member, such as Angelino Alfano.^[23] Later that day, LN leader Maroni confirmed his party will not support a new candidacy of Berlusconi as Prime Minister in the case of an electoral win.^[24]

Electoral system

The current election system is a form of party-list proportional representation with a series of thresholds to encourage parties to form coalitions. Italy is divided into 26 districts for the Chamber of Deputies and 20 regions for the Senate. Each district is assigned a number of seats in proportion to its share of the population. To guarantee a working majority, the coalition or party that obtains a plurality of the vote, but fewer than 340 seats, is assigned additional seats to reach that number, which roughly is about 54 percent of all seats. Inside each coalition, seats are divided between parties by the D'Hondt method.^{[citation needed]}

The coalition or party that wins a plurality in a region is guaranteed 55 percent of the region's Senate seats. As this mechanism is region-based, opposing parties or coalitions may benefit from it in different regions. It therefore does not guarantee any party or coalition a majority in the Senate.^{[citation needed]}

Coalitions and electoral lists

The coalitions and main electoral lists are:

Coalitions consisting of several lists

• Italy. Common Good (centre-left;^[25] Democratic Party, Left Ecology Freedom, Italian Socialist Party, Democratic Centre, South Tyrolean People's Party, Moderates for Piedmont, The Megaphone of Rosario Crocetta)^[26]
• Centre-right coalition (centre-right; The People of Freedom, Lega Nord, The Right, Brothers of Italy, Great South–MpA, Italian Moderates in Revolution, Popular Agreement, Pensioners' Party)^[27]
• With Monti for Italy (centrist;^[28][29] Civic Choice, Union of the Centre, Future and Freedom)

Unitary electoral lists

• Five Star Movement (anti-establishment populist)^[30]
• Civil Revolution^[31] (left-wing; Italy of Values, Federation of the Left (PRC+PdCI), Federation of the Greens, Orange Movement)^[32]
• Stop the Decline (economic liberal)
• Amnesty, Justice and Freedom^[26][33] (radical liberal, libertarian)
• I Love Italy^[26] (social conservative)
• Italian Reformists^[26] (social-democratic, former centre-right)
• Workers' Communist Party^[26] (Trotskyist)
• New Force^[26] (neo-fascist)
• Tricolour Flame^[26] (neo-fascist)
• CasaPound^[26] (neo-fascist)

Political force or alliance		Constituent lists		Leader
	Italy. Common Good (Italia. Bene Comune)		Democratic Party (Partito Democratico)	Pier Luigi Bersani
			Left Ecology Freedom (Sinistra Ecologia Libertà)
			Democratic Centre (Centro Democratico)
			Italian Socialist Party (Partito Socialista Italiano) – only Senate: Lazio, Campania and Calabria[34]
			South Tyrolean People's Party (Südtiroler Volkspartei) incl. Trentino Tyrolean Autonomist Party (Partito Autonomista Trentino Tirolese)[35][36] – only Chamber of Deputies: Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol
			Moderates for Piedmont (Moderati per il Piemonte) – only Senate: Piedmont
			The Megaphone (Il Megafono) – only Senate: Sicily[37]
	Centre-right coalition		The People of Freedom (Il Popolo della Libertà)	Silvio Berlusconi
			Northern League (Lega Nord) incl. Labour and Freedom List (Lista Lavoro e Libertà)
			The Right (La Destra)
			Brothers of Italy (Fratelli d'Italia - Centrodestra Nazionale)
			Great South–MpA (Grande Sud–MpA)
			Italian Moderates in Revolution (Moderati Italiani in Rivoluzione)
			Popular Agreement (Intesa Popolare)
			Pensioners' Party (Partito Pensionati)
	Five Star Movement (Movimento 5 Stelle)		Five Star Movement (Movimento 5 Stelle)	Beppe Grillo (not candidate)
	With Monti for Italy (Con Monti per l'Italia)		Civic Choice (Scelta Civica)	Mario Monti
			Union of the Centre (Unione di Centro)
			Future and Freedom (Futuro e Libertà)
			Union for Trentino (Unione per il Trentino) – only Chamber of Deputies: Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol
	Civil Revolution (Rivoluzione Civile)		Unitary list of Italy of Values, Federation of the Left (Communist Refoundation Party + Party of Italian Communists), Orange Movement, and Federation of the Greens	Antonio Ingroia
	Act to Stop the Decline (Fare per Fermare il Declino)		Stop the Decline (Fermare il Declino)	Oscar Giannino

Opinion polls

Results for Chamber of Deputies

Italy (main electoral region)

Coalition		Party		Votes	%	Seats
	Pier Luigi Bersani: Italy. Common Good		Democratic Party	8,644,187	25.42	292
			Left Ecology Freedom	1,089,442	3.20	37
			Democratic Centre	167,170	0.49	6
			South Tyrolean People's Party	146,804	0.43	5
			Total	10,047,603	29.54	340
	Silvio Berlusconi: Center-right coalition		The People of Freedom	7,332,667	21.56	97
			Lega Nord	1,390,156	4.08	18
			Brothers of Italy	666,035	1.95	9
			The Right	219,816	0.64	0
			Great South — Movement for Autonomies	148,534	0.43	0
			Italian Moderates in Revolution	81,982	0.24	0
			Pensioners' Party	55,050	0.16	0
			Popular Agreement	25,631	0.07	0
			Independents for a Fair Italy	3,238	0.00	0
			Total	9,923,109	29.18	124
	Beppe Grillo: Five Star Movement			8,689,168	25.55	108
	Mario Monti: With Monti for Italy		Civic Choice	2,824,001	8.30	37
			Union of the Centre	608,199	1.78	8
			Future and Freedom	159,429	0.46	0
			Total	3,591,629	10.56	45
	Antonio Ingroia: Civil Revolution			765,172	2.25	0
	Act to Stop the Decline			380,937	1.12	0
	Workers' Communist Party			89,995	0.26	0
	New Force			89,826	0.26	0
	Amnesty, Justice, Freedom			64,732	0.19	0
	The Libertarians			48,317	0.14	0
	CasaPound			47,691	0.14	0
	Tricolour Flame			44,753	0.13	0
	I Love Italy			42,529	0.12	0
	Venetian Independence			33,274	0.09	0
	Liberals for Italy			28,026	0.08	0
	Sardinian Action Party			18,585	0.05	0
	Liga Veneta Repubblica			15,838	0.04	0
	Voto di Protesta			12,744	0.03	0
	Veneto State			11,378	0.03	0
	Italian Reformists			8,223	0.02	0
	Indipendenza per la Sardegna			7,598	0.02	0
	PRI			7,143	0.02	0
	MERIS			5,901	0.01	0
	Communist Alternative Party			5,159	0.01	0
	Italian Pirate Party			4,557	0.01	0
	Movimento Progetto Italia			3,967	0.01	0
	Rifondazione Missina Italiana			3,178	0.00	0
	Popular Unity			2,992	0.00	0
	Progetto Nazionale			2,865	0.00	0
	Movimento PPA			1,526	0.00	0
	Unione Popolare			1,515	0.00	0
	Tutti Insieme per L'Italia			1,452	0,00	0
	Staminali D'Italia			585	0,00	0
	Democrazia Atea			556	0,00	0
	Invalid/blank/unassigned votes			1,269,018	–	–
Total				35,271,540	100	617
Registered voters/turnout				46,906,343	75.19	–
Source: Ministry of the Interior

Valle d'Aosta

The semi-autonomous region of Valle d'Aosta, in northwestern Italy, elects one member to the Chamber of Deputies through a direct first-past-the-post election. Some parties that formed electoral coalitions in Italy, might have opted to run against one another (or form different coalitions) in this particular region.

Candidate	Party	Total votes	%	Seats
Rudi Marguerettaz	Vallée d'Aoste	18,376	25.36	1
Laurent Viérin	Progressive Valdotanian Union	18,191	25.11	0
Jean Pierre Guichardaz	Autonomy Liberty Participation Ecology (ALPE)	14,340	19.79	0
Roberto Ugo Massimo Cognetta	Five Star Movement	13,403	18.50	0
Giorgia Meloni	Brothers of Italy	3,051	4.21	0
Nicoletta Spelgatti	Northern League	2,384	3.29	0
Lucia Bringhen	Union of the Centre	1,355	1.87	0
Fabrizio Buillet	Act to Stop the Decline	748	1.03	0
Andrea Ladu	CasaPound	443	0.61	0
Eros Campion	Nation Val d'Outa	145	0.20	0
Total valid votes		72,436	-	-
Blank/void/unassigned votes		4,733	-	-
Total votes		77,169	100	1
Registered voters/turnout		100,277	76.95	-
Source: Ministry of the Interior

Italian citizens in other countries

Twelve members of the Chamber of Deputies are elected by Italian citizens residing in other countries. Two members are elected for North America and Central America (including most of the Caribbean), four members for South America (including Trinidad and Tobago), five members for Europe, and one member for the rest of the world (Africa, Asia, Oceania, and Antarctica). Voters in these regions select candidate lists and may also cast a preference vote for individual candidates. The seats are allocated by proportional representation.

The election law allow for parties to form other electoral coalitions on the lists abroad, compared to the lists in Italy. In the 2013 election, this freedom was used by Left Ecology Freedom to provide a list as an independent party, instead of making themselve available as part of the mainlands coalition with Democratic Party.

Party		Votes	%	Seats
	Democratic Party	288,092	29.32	5
	With Monti for Italy	180,674	18.39	2
	The People of Freedom	145,824	14.84	1
	Associative Movement Italians Abroad	140,473	14.30	2
	Five Star Movement	95,041	9.67	1
	Unione Sudamericana Emigrati Italiani	44,024	4.48	1
	Italians for Liberty	22,321	2.27	0
	Left Ecology Freedom	17,375	1.76	0
	Civil Revolution	15,910	1.61	0
	Unione Italiani Sudamerica	11,470	1.16	0
	Act to Stop the Decline	10,160	1.03	0
	Communist Party – Popular Left	7,073	0.72	0
	Insieme Per Gli Italiani	3,890	0.39	0
	Invalid/blank/unassigned votes	115,145	–	–
Total		1,039,725	100	12
Registered voters/turnout		3,494,687	29.75	–
Source: Ministry of the Interior

Seat totals in the Chamber of Deputies

Coalition		Party		Seats
	Pier Luigi Bersani: Italy. Common Good		Democratic Party	297
			Left Ecology Freedom	37
			Democratic Centre	6
			South Tyrolean People's Party	5
			Total	345
	Silvio Berlusconi: Center-right coalition		The People of Freedom	98
			Lega Nord	18
			Brothers of Italy	9
			Total	125
	Beppe Grillo: Five Star Movement			109
	Mario Monti: With Monti for Italy		Civic Choice	39
			Union of the Centre	8
			With Monti for Italy (estero)	2
			Total	47
	Associative Movement Italians Abroad			2
	Unione Sudamericana Emigrati Italiani			1
	Vallée d'Aoste			1
Total				630

Overall result

Popular vote and parliamentary seats in the Chamber.

Results for the Senate

Italy (main electoral region)

Coalition		Party		Votes	%	Seats
	Pier Luigi Bersani: Italy. Common Good		Democratic Party	8,400,255	27.43	105
			Left Ecology Freedom	912,374	2.97	7
			Democratic Centre	163,427	0.53	0
			The Megaphone - List of Rosario Crocetta	138,581	0.45	1
			Italian Socialist Party	57,688	0.18	0
			Moderates	14,358	0.04	0
		Total		9,686,683	31.63	113
	Silvio Berlusconi: Centre-right coalition		The People of Freedom	6,829,373	22.30	98
			Lega Nord	1,328,555	4.33	17
			Brothers of Italy	590,083	1.92	0
			The Right	221,112	0.72	0
			Pensioners' Party	123,458	0.40	0
			Great South	122,100	0.39	1
			Italian Moderates in Revolution (MIR)	69,649	0.22	0
			Movement for Autonomies - Party of Sicilian (MPA)	48,618	0.15	0
			Intesa Popolare (Understanding People)	24,979	0.08	0
			Cantiere Popolare	21,685	0.07	0
			Basta Tasse	19,298	0.06	0
			Independents for a Fair Italy	6,769	0.02	0
		Total		9,405,679	30.71	116
	Beppe Grillo: Five Star Movement			7,285,850	23.79	54
	Mario Monti: With Monti for Italy			2,797,486	9.13	18
	Antonio Ingroia: Civil Revolution			549,987	1.79	0
	Act to Stop the Decline			278,396	0.90	0
	Workers' Communist Party			113,935	0.37	0
	New Force			81,519	0.26	0
	Amnesty, Justice, Freedom			63,149	0.20	0
	Tricolour Flame			52,106	0.17	0
	I Love Italy			40,781	0.13	0
	CasaPound			40,540	0.13	0
	Venetian Independence			29,696	0.09	0
	Liga Veneta Repubblica			20,381	0.06	0
	Ottavio Pasqualucci		Dimezziamo lo Stipendo ai Politici	7,968	0.02	0
			No alla chiusura degli ospedali	7,547	0.02	0
			Viva L'Italia	4,759	0.01	0
		Total		20,274	0.06	0
	Sardinian Action Party			18,602	0.06	0
	Civilta' Rurale Sviluppo			13,945	0.04	0
	Rialzati Abruzzo			11,817	0.03	0
	Marxist–Leninist Italian Communist Party			9,604	0.03	0
	Veneto State			8,950	0.02	0
	Italian Republican Party			8,476	0.02	0
	Donne per L'Italia			7,610	0.02	0
	Indipendenza per la Sardegna			7,494	0.02	0
	Padanian Union			7,324	0.02	0
	Popular Unity			6,583	0.02	0
	Italian Pirate Party			6,265	0.02	0
	Italian Reformists			5,952	0.01	0
	MERIS			5,580	0.01	0
	Communist Alternative Party			5,176	0.01	0
	PAS - FBLB&LT			4,522	0.01	0
	Progetto Nazionale			3,822	0.01	0
	La Base			3,386	0.01	0
	Tutti Insieme per L'Italia			3,155	0.01	0
	Rifondazione Missina Italiana			2,717	0.00	0
	Movimento Eudonna			2,689	0.00	0
	Costruire Democrazia			2,635	0.00	0
	Movimento Progetto Italia			1,451	0.00	0
	Partito Del Sud			1,276	0.00	0
	Movimento Naturalista Italiano			1,170	0.00	0
	Communita' Lucana			882	0.00	0
Invalid/blank votes				1,133,805	–	–
Total				31,751,350	100	301
Registered voters/turnout				42,271,967	75.11	–
Source: Ministry of the Interior

Trentino-Alto Adige (South Tyrol)

The semi-autonomous region of Trentino-Alto Adige in north Italy, also known as South Tyrol, elects seven members to the Italian Senate through a direct proportional vote. Some parties that formed electoral coalitions in Italy, might have opted to run against one another (or form different coalitions) in this particular region.

Candidate	Party	Total votes	%	Seats
Franco Panizza (SVP-PATT) Giorgio Tonini (PD) Vittorio Fravezzi (UPT)	SVP - PATT - PD - UPT (only Trentino)	127,656	23.43	3
	The People of Freedom - Northern League	85,298	15.65	1
	Five Star Movement	82,499	15.14	0
Hans Berger	SVP (only Brixen constituency)	54,474	9.99	1
Francesco Palermo	PD - SVP (only Bolzano constituency)	47,623	8.74	1
Karl Zeller	SVP (only Merano constituency)	42,667	7.83	1
	The Libertarians (only South Tyrol)	42,094	7.72	0
	Civil Revolution	11,262	2.06	0
	Act to Stop the Decline (only Bolzano constituency and Trentino)	8,796	1.61	0
	Greens (only Brixen constituency)	6,686	1.22	0
	Greens (only Merano constituency)	6,122	1.12	0
	Tyrol in the heart (Urzi) (only South Tyrol)	4,672	0.85	0
	Democratic Party (PD) (only Brixen constituency)	4,478	0.82	0
	Democratic Party (PD) (only Merano constituency)	4,319	0.79	0
	Civic Choice (SC-Monti) (only Brixen constituency)	4,016	0.73	0
	Civic Choice (SC-Monti) (only Merano constituency)	3,630	0.66	0
	Italian Moderates in Revolution (MIR) (only Trentino	3,414	0.62	0
	Brothers of Italy (only Bolzano constituency)	2,365	0.43	0
	The Right (LD) (only South Tyrol)	1,181	0.21	0
	CasaPound (only Bolzano constituency)	1,160	0.21	0
	Party for all(only Bolzano constituency)	426	0.07	0
Total valid votes		544,838	-	-
Blank/void/unassigned votes		30,437	-	-
Total votes		575,275	100	7
Registered voters/turnout		707,666	81.29	-
Source: Ministry of the Interior

Valle d'Aosta

The semi-autonomous region of Valle d'Aosta, in northwestern Italy, elects one member to the Senate through a direct first-past-the-post election. Some parties that formed electoral coalitions in Italy, might have opted to run against one another (or form different coalitions) in this particular region.

Candidate	Party	Total votes	%	Seats
	Vallée d'Aoste (APF)	24,609	37.03	1
	Autonomy Liberty Participation Ecology	20,430	30.75	0
	Five Star Movement	13,760	20.71	0
	Northern League	2,608	3.92	0
	The Right	2,014	3.03	0
	Union of the Centre	1,594	2.39	0
	Act to Stop the Decline	814	1.22	0
	CasaPound	424	0.63	0
	Nation Val d'Outa	186	0.27	0
Total valid votes		66,439	-	-
Blank/void/unassigned votes		5,280	-	-
Total votes		71,719	100	1
Registered voters/turnout		93,040	77.08	-
Source: Ministry of the Interior

Italian citizens in other countries

Six members of the Senate are elected by Italian citizens residing in other countries. One member is elected for North America and Central America (including most of the Caribbean), two members for South America (including Trinidad and Tobago), two members for Europe, and one member for the rest of the world (Africa, Asia, Oceania, and Antarctica). Voters in these regions select candidate lists and may also cast a preference vote for individual candidates. The seats are allocated by proportional representation.

The election law allow for parties to form other electoral coalitions on the lists abroad, compared to the lists in Italy. In the 2013 electional list for the Senate all parties were listed independently without any coalitions formed. None of the parties were neither in internal coalitions at the mainland; so in 2013 the electoral situation abroad actually was not different compared to the electoral situation at the mainland.

Party		Votes	%	Seats
	Democratic Party	274,732	30.7	4
	With Monti for Italy	177,402	19.8	1
	The People of Freedom	136,052	15.2	0
	Associative Movement Italians Abroad	120,290	13.4	1
	Five Star Movement	89,562	10.0	0
	Unione Sudamericana Emigrati Italiani	38,223	4.3	0
	Italians for Liberty	15,260	1.7	0
	Civil Revolution	14,134	1.6	0
	Unione Italiani Sudamerica	10,881	1.2	0
	Act to Stop the Decline	7,892	0.9	0
	Communist Party - Popular Left	7,578	0.8	0
	Insieme Per Gli Italiani	3,223	0.4	0
	Invalid/blank/unassigned votes	108,150	–	–
Total		948,067	100	6
Registered voters/turnout		3,149,501	30.1	–
Source: Ministry of the Interior

Seat totals in the Senate

Coalition		Party		Seats
	Pier Luigi Bersani: Italy. Common Good		Democratic Party (PD)	113
			Left Ecology Freedom (SEL)	7
			South Tyrolean People's Party (SVP)	2
			The Megaphone - List of Rosario Crocetta (IM-LC)	1
			Total	123
	Silvio Berlusconi: Center-right coalition		The People of Freedom (PdL)	99
			Lega Nord (LN)	17
			Great South (GS)	1
			Total	117
	Beppe Grillo: Five Star Movement			54
	Mario Monti: With Monti for Italy			19
	Associative Movement Italians Abroad (MAIE)			1
	Vallée d'Aoste (APF)			1
Total				315

By region

Vote result for the Senate in each Italian region.

Province	Total seats	Coalition results										List apportionment
		Coalition seats					Percentage					Party seats
		IBC	CD	Monti	M5S	Other	IBC	CD	Monti	M5S	Other	IBC	CD	Monti	M5S	Other
Piedmont	22	13	4	2	3	0	29.8	29.3	11.6	25.7	3.5	PD 13	PdL 3 LN 1	Monti 2	M5S 3	0
Aosta Valley	1	0	0	0	0	APF 1	-	7.0	2.4	20.7	69.9	0	0	0	0	APF 1
Lombardy	49	11	27	4	7	0	29.7	37.6	10.7	17.4	4.4	PD 11	PdL 16 LN 11	Monti 4	M5S 7	0
Trentino-Alto Adige	7	6	1	0	0	0	50.6	16.3	1.4	15.1	13.7	PD 4 SVP 2	1 PdL	0	0	0
Veneto	24	4	14	2	4	0	25.0	32.9	11.0	24.6	6.2	PD 4	PdL 9 LN 5	Monti 2	M5S 4	0
Friuli-Venezia Giulia	7	4	1	1	1	0	29.3	28.8	12.3	25.5	4.2	PD 4	PdL 1	Monti 1	M5S 1	0
Liguria	8	5	1	1	1	0	33.0	24.1	9.4	30.3	3.1	PD 5	PdL 1	Monti 1	M5S 1	0
Emilia-Romagna	22	13	4	1	4	0	42.1	21.3	8.9	23.1	4.5	PD 13	PdL 4	Monti 1	M5S 4	0
Tuscany	18	10	3	1	4	0	43.5	21.3	8.1	22.7	4.4	PD 9 SEL 1	PdL 3	Monti 1	M5S 4	0
Umbria	7	4	1	1	1	0	37.6	25.2	8.3	25.3	3.4	PD 4	PdL 1	Monti 1	M5S 1	0
Marche	8	5	1	1	1	0	33.2	22.2	10.0	30.3	4.2	PD 5	PdL 1	Monti 1	M5S 1	0
Lazio	28	16	6	0	6	0	32.3	28.9	7.5	25.9	5.4	PD 14 SEL 2	PdL 6	0	M5S 6	0
Abruzzo	7	1	4	0	2	0	28.1	29.6	7.5	28.4	6.4	PD 1	PdL 4	0	M5S 2	0
Molise	2	1	1	0	0	0	30.3	30.1	8.4	26.6	4.6	PD 1	PdL 1	0	0	0
Campania	29	6	16	2	5	0	29.0	38.4	8.2	20.7	4.6	PD 5 SEL 1	PdL 16	Monti 2	M5S 5	0
Apulia	20	4	11	1	4	0	28.5	34.4	9.1	24.1	3.9	PD 3 SEL 1	PdL 11	Monti 1	M5S 4	0
Basilicata	7	4	1	1	1	0	36.7	25.3	8.4	22.9	6.8	PD 3 SEL 1	PdL 1	Monti 1	M5S 1	0
Calabria	10	2	6	0	2	0	31.7	33.3	7.6	22.2	5.2	PD 2	PdL 5 GS 1	0	M5S 2	-
Sicily	25	5	14	0	6	0	27.3	33.4	5.9	29.5	3.9	PD 4 IM-LC 1	PdL 14	0	M5S 6	0
Sardinia	8	5	1	0	2	0	31.7	25.5	6.6	28.7	7.5	PD 4 SEL 1	PdL 1	0	M5S 2	0
Expats	6	4	0	1	0	MAIE 1	30.69	15.2	19.8	10.0	26.0	PD 4	0	Monti 1	0	MAIE 1
Total	315	123	117	19	54	2	-	-	-	-	-	PD 113, SEL 7, SVP 2, IM-LC 1	PdL 99, LN 17, GS 1	Monti 19	M5S 54	APF 1 MAIE 1

Source: Ministry of Interior^[38]

Overall result

Popular vote and parliamentary seats in the Senate.

Reaction and aftermath

Analysis of the result, in particular the situation in the senate was one of political stalemate, with Bersani describing Italy being in a "dramatic situation".^[39] Italian and global shares fell as the result became clear, with the value of the euro also dropping.^[39]

Strong results for anti-austerity parties were interpreted as showing popular opposition to the austerity measures of the Monti government,^[40] with the populist Five Star Movement considered to have had a very strong election.^[41] Analysts were uncertain as to how this new party would behave in the legislature.^[41]

On 26 February La Repubblica ran the headline "Boost for Grillo: Italy ungovernable",^[42] whilst Il Giornale described Berlusconi's result as a "miracle".^[43] Il Messaggero declared that "The winner is ungovernability".^[43]

Formal talks to form a new government are expected to start on 10 March with the official confirmation of the results and the convening of parliament.^[41]