1980 Lombard regional election

The Lombard regional election of 1980 took place on 8 June 1980. The 3rd term of the Regional Council was chosen.

Lombardy regional election, 1980

8 June 1980
All 80 seats to the Regional Council of Lombardy
Turnout	92.48%
Party Christian Democracy Communist Party Socialist Party Last election 32 seats, 37.5% 25 seats, 30.4% 11 seats, 14.1% Seats won 34 23 11 Seat change 2 2 = Popular vote 2,240,861 1,623,532 834,111 Percentage 38.9% 28.2% 14.5% Swing 1.4% 2.2% 0.4%
President of Lombardy before election Giuseppe Guzzetti DC Elected President of Lombardy Giuseppe Guzzetti DC

Electoral law

Election was held under proportional representation with provincial constituencies where the largest remainder method with a Droop quota was used. To ensure more proportionality, remained votes and seats were transferred at regional level and calculated at-large.

Results

The Christian Democracy party was by far the largest. After the election the incumbent president Giuseppe Guzzetti was re-elected at the head of a center-left coalition comprising also the PSI, the PSDI and the PRI.

8 June 1980 Lombard regional election results

Party		Votes	%	Seats
	Christian Democracy	2,240,861	38.86	34
	Italian Communist Party	1,623,352	28.15	23
	Italian Socialist Party	834,111	14.46	11
	Italian Democratic Socialist Party	260,611	4.52	3
	Italian Social Movement	251,745	4.37	3
	Italian Liberal Party	197,301	3.42	2
	Italian Republican Party	152,605	2.65	2
	Proletarian Democracy	96,882	1.68	1
	Proletarian Unity Party	86,631	1.50	1
	Association for Trieste	10,001	0.17	0
	Milanese List	3,825	0.07	0
	Social Action Christian Party	2,738	0.05	0
	Revolutionary Communist League	2,590	0.04	0
	European Workers' Party	2,529	0.04	0
	Revolutionary Socialist League	1,086	0.02	0
Total valid votes		5,766,868		80
Blank votes		233,742
Invalid votes (blank included)		380,286
Total		6,147,154
Registered voters & turnout		6,647,073	92.48

Source: Ministry of the Interior

Seats by province

Province	DC	PCI	PSI	PSDI	MSI	PLI	PRI	DP	PdUP	Total
Milan	12	11	6	2	2	2	2	1	1	39
Brescia	5	2	1	1	1	-	-	-	-	10
Bergamo	5	2	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	8
Como	3	2	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	6
Varese	3	2	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	6
Pavia	2	2	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	5
Cremona	2	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	3
Mantua	1	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2
Sondrio	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1
Total	34	23	11	3	3	2	2	1	1	80