1994 European Parliament election in Italy

The 1994 European Parliament election in Italy was the election of the delegation from Italy to the European Parliament in 1994.

1994 European Parliament election in Italy

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outgoing members elected members
All 87 Italian seats to the European Parliament
Turnout	73.6% ( 7.5 pp)
Party Leader Vote % Seats +/– Forza Italia Silvio Berlusconi 30.6% 27 New PDS Achille Occhetto 19.1% 16 −6 AN Gianfranco Fini 12.5% 11 +7 PPI Rosa Russo Iervolino 10.0% 8 −18 Lega Nord Umberto Bossi 6.6% 6 +4 PRC Fausto Bertinotti 6.1% 5 New Segni Pact Mario Segni 3.3% 3 New Greens Carlo Ripa di Meana 3.3% 3 −2 Pannella List Marco Pannella 2.1% 2 +1 PSI – AD O. Del Turco & W. Bordon 1.8% 2 −10 Network Leoluca Orlando 1.1% 1 New PRI Giorgio La Malfa 0.7% 1 −2 PSDI Enrico Ferri 0.7% 1 −1 SVP Siegfried Brugger 0.6% 1 0 This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below. Major party in each Province.

It was the first continental election after the scandal of Tangentopoli which destroyed the traditional republican parties of Italy: consequently, all new parties contested the race.

Electoral system

The pure party-list proportional representation was the traditional electoral system of the Italian Republic since its foundation in 1946, so it had been adopted to elect the Italian representatives to the European Parliament too. Two levels were used: a national level to divide seats between parties, and a constituency level to distribute them between candidates. Italian regions were united in 5 constituencies, each electing a group of deputies. At national level, seats were divided between party lists using the largest remainder method with Hare quota. All seats gained by each party were automatically distributed to their local open lists and their most voted candidates.

Results

The new party Forza Italia (FI), led by the Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, won the election with 30.6% of the vote and 27 seats. The second party was the Democratic Party of the Left (PDS), main heir of the Italian Communist Party (PCI), that gained 19.1% of the vote and 16 seats, while the third party was National Alliance (AN), heir of the Italian Social Movement (MSI), that gained 12.5% of the vote and 11 seats. The Italian People's Party (PPI), main heir of Christian Democracy (DC), gained only 10.0% of the vote and 8 seats.

Party		Votes	%	+/–	Seats	+/–
	Forza Italia	10,089,139	30.62	New	27	New
	Democratic Party of the Left	6,281,354	19.06	-8.52	16	-6
	National Alliance	4,108,670	12.47	+6.96	11	+7
	Italian People's Party	3,295,337	10.00	-22.90	8	-18
	Lega Nord	2,162,586	6.56	+4.73	6	+4
	Communist Refoundation Party	2,004,716	6.08	New	5	New
	Segni Pact	1,073,095	3.26	New	3	New
	Federation of the Greens	1,055,797	3.20	-2.97	3	-2
	Pannella List	702,717	2.13	+0.89	2	+1
	Italian Socialist Party – Democratic Alliance	606,538	1.84	-12.96	2	-10
	The Network	366,258	1.11	New	1	New
	Italian Republican Party	242,786	0.74		1	-2
	Italian Democratic Socialist Party	227,439	0.69	-2.03	1	-1
	Southern Action League	224,033	0.68	New	0	New
	South Tyrolean People's Party	202,668	0.62	+0.12	1	0
	Federalism (UV–SN–LAV–PN)	126,937	0.39	-0.21	0	-1
	Lega Alpina Lumbarda	110,458	0.34	New	0	New
	Federation of Liberals	53,983	0.16	New	0	New
	Solidarity	15,214	0.05	New	0	New
Total		32,949,725	100.00	–	87	+6
Valid votes		32,949,725	92.29
Invalid/blank votes		2,753,484	7.71
Total votes		35,703,209	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		48,461,792	73.67
Source: Ministry of the Interior

See also

1994 Italian general election