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National-level elections in Italy are called periodically to form a parliament consisting of two houses: the Chamber of Deputies (Camera dei Deputati) with 400 members; and the Senate of the Republic (Senato della Repubblica) with 200 elected members, plus a few appointed senators for life.
Any Italian citizen over the age of 18 on the election day is eligible to elect the members of the Italian parliament. [3]In order to be eligible to stand for election to the Chamber of Deputies, an individual must be over the age of 25 on the election day, and in order to be eligible to stand for election to the Senate of the Republic, an individual must be over the age of 40 on the election day.
This is a list of Italian constituencies from 1946 to present. For the election of the Italian Chamber of Deputies , since 1993 Italy is divided in 27 districts called circoscrizioni . However, the distribution of seats being calculated at national level, districts serve only to choose the single candidates inside the party lists.
The electoral law currently in force in Italy assigns seats in both houses of the Italian Parliament using mixed-member majoritarian representation. The 400 deputies are to be elected as follows: [2] 147 in single-member constituencies by plurality (FPTP). 245 in multi-member constituencies by national proportional representation.
In the 2018 Italian general election, held on 4 March, no political group or party won an outright majority, resulting in a hung parliament. [30] [31] The centre-right coalition, in which Matteo Salvini's League emerged as the main political force, won a plurality of seats in the Chamber of Deputies and in the Senate, while the anti-establishment Five Star Movement (M5S) led by Luigi Di Maio ...
The Italian Parliament (Italian: Parlamento italiano) is the national parliament of the Italian Republic.It is the representative body of Italian citizens and is the successor to the Parliament of the Kingdom of Sardinia (1848–1861), the Parliament of the Kingdom of Italy (1861–1943), the transitional National Council (1945–1946) and the Constituent Assembly (1946–1948).
This is a list of Italian constituencies from 1946 to present. For the election of the Italian Chamber of Deputies , since 1993 Italy is divided in 27 districts called circoscrizioni . However, the distribution of seats being calculated at national level, districts serve only to choose the single candidates inside the party lists.
The 2018 Italian general election was held on 4 March 2018 after the Italian Parliament was dissolved by President Sergio Mattarella on 28 December 2017. [2] Voters were electing the 630 members of the Chamber of Deputies and the 315 elective members of the Senate of the Republic for the 18th legislature of the Italian Republic since 1948.