# 1983 Italian Senate election in Lombardy

Lombardy elected its ninth delegation to the Italian Senate on June 26, 1983. This election was a part of national Italian general election of 1983 even if, according to the Italian Constitution, every senatorial challenge in each Region is a single and independent race.
The election was won by the centrist Christian Democracy, as it happened at national level. Six Lombard provinces gave a majority or at least a plurality to the winning party, while the agricultural Province of Pavia and Province of Mantua, and this time the industrial Province of Milan, preferred the Italian Communist Party.

## Background

As the red rising seemed to be stopped in Italy, many center-right electors began to think no more necessary a vote for Christian Democracy which lost many seats to minor parties, especially to the Italian Republican Party of former Prime Minister Giovanni Spadolini.

## Electoral system

The electoral system for the Senate was a strange hybrid which established a form of proportional representation into FPTP-like constituencies. A candidate needed a landslide victory of more than 65% of votes to obtain a direct mandate. All constituencies where this result was not reached entered into an at-large calculation based upon the D'Hondt method to distribute the seats between the parties, and candidates with the best percentages of suffrages inside their party list were elected.

## Results

| Party | votes | votes (%) | seats | swing |
| Christian Democracy | 1,747,002 | 34.4 | 17 | 4 |
| Italian Communist Party | 1,447,823 | 28.5 | 15 | = |
| Italian Socialist Party | 615,644 | 12.1 | 6 | = |
| Italian Republican Party | 349,351 | 6.9 | 3 | 2 |
| Italian Social Movement | 255,667 | 5.0 | 2 | 1 |
| Italian Liberal Party | 197,084 | 3.9 | 2 | 1 |
| Italian Democratic Socialist Party | 192,172 | 3.8 | 2 | = |
| Radical Party | 103,697 | 2.0 | 1 | = |
| Others | 168,885 | 3.3 | - | = |
| Total parties | 5,076,325 | 100.0 | 48 | = |
Sources: Italian Ministry of the Interior

### Constituencies

| N° | Constituency | Elected | Party | Votes % | Others |
| 1 | Bergamo | Angelo Castelli | Christian Democracy | 49.6% | |
| 2 | Clusone | Enzo Berlanda | Christian Democracy | 55.8% | |
| 3 | Treviglio | Vincenzo Bombardieri | Christian Democracy | 49.6% | |
| 4 | Brescia | Pietro Padula Gino Torri | Christian Democracy Italian Communist Party | 37.5% 28.5% | |
| 5 | Breno | Franco Salvi | Christian Democracy | 48.4% | |
| 6 | Chiari | Giovanni Prandini | Christian Democracy | 49.3% | |
| 7 | Salò | Elio Fontana | Christian Democracy | 42.2% | Italo Nicoletto (PCI) 26.2% |
| 8 | Como | Gianfranco Aliverti Gianfranco Conti Persini | Christian Democracy Italian Democratic Socialist Party | 35.7% 7.5% | |
| 9 | Lecco | Maria Paola Colombo Pietro Fiocchi | Christian Democracy Italian Liberal Party | 41.4% 9.0% | |
| 10 | Cantù | Vittorino Colombo | Christian Democracy | 41.6% | |
| 11 | Cremona | Renzo Antoniazzi Vincenzo Vernaschi | Italian Communist Party Christian Democracy | 35.9% 34.7% | |
| 12 | Crema | Francesco Rebecchini Unconstitutional result | Christian Democracy | 42.6% 28.1% | Maurizio Noci (PSI) 13.6% seat ceded to Pintus |
| 13 | Mantua | Giuseppe Chiarante Gino Scevarolli | Italian Communist Party Italian Socialist Party | 34.6% 14.6% | |
| 14 | Ostiglia | Maurizio Lotti Enrico Novellini | Italian Communist Party Italian Socialist Party | 42.5% 16.7% | |
| 15 | Milan 1 | Guido Carli^ Giovanni Spadolini Giovanni Malagodi | Christian Democracy Italian Republican Party Italian Liberal Party | 28.2% 20.6% 9.9% | |
| 16 | Milan 2 | Giorgio Pisanò Spadolini's third election | Italian Social Movement | 9.2% 18% | seat ceded to Ferrara |
| 17 | Milan 3 | Giorgio Covi Cesare Biglia Mario Signorino | Italian Republican Party Italian Social Movement Radical Party | 14.2% 8.5% 3.2% | |
| 18 | Milan 4 | Roberto Romei^ Spadolini's second election | Christian Democracy | 23.5% 19% | seat ceded to Covi |
| 19 | Milan 5 | Giuliano Procacci Giovanni Ferrara | Italian Communist Party Italian Republican Party | 30.6% 11.1% | |
| 20 | Milan 6 | Eliseo Milani | Italian Communist Party | 32.3% | |
| 21 | Abbiategrasso | Massimo Riva | Italian Communist Party (Gsi) | 34.3% | |
| 22 | Rho | Rodolfo Bollini | Italian Communist Party | 36.2% | |
| 23 | Monza | Libero Riccardelli | Italian Communist Party | 30.9% | Felice Calcaterra (DC) 32.9% |
| 24 | Vimercate | Luigi Granelli Marina Rossanda | Christian Democracy Italian Communist Party | 35.6% 31.0% | |
| 25 | Lodi | Antonio Taramelli Alfredo Diana | Italian Communist Party Christian Democracy | 37.3% 34.4% | |
| 26 | Pavia | Armelino Milani Renato Garibaldi | Italian Communist Party (Gsi) Italian Socialist Party | 35.6% 14.3% | |
| 27 | Voghera | Luigi Meriggi Luigi Panigazzi Renzo Sclavi | Italian Communist Party Italian Socialist Party Italian Democratic Socialist Party | 31.7% 15.2% 6.0% | |
| 28 | Vigevano | Armando Cossutta | Italian Communist Party | 41.6% | |
| 29 | Sondrio | Eugenio Tarabini Libero Della Briotta | Christian Democracy Italian Socialist Party | 48.6% 17.4% | |
| 30 | Varese | Francesco Pintus | Italian Communist Party (Gsi) | 27.2% | |
| 31 | Busto Arsizio | Andrea Buffoni | Italian Socialist Party | 13.8% | Gian Pietro Rossi (DC) 34.1% |
* No senator obtained a direct mandate. The electoral system was, in the other cases, a form of proportional representation and not a FPTP race: so candidates winning with a simple plurality could have (and usually had) a candidate (usually a Christian democrat) with more votes in their constituency.
* ^ Linked to Spadolini's triple election.

### Substitutions

* Maurizio Noci for Crema (13.6%) replaced Libero Della Briotta in 1985. Reason: death.
* Gian Pietro Rossi for Busto Arsizio (34.1%) replaced Pietro Padula in 1986. Reason: resignation.
* Felice Calcaterra for Monza (32.9%) replaced Gian Pietro Rossi in 1986. Reason: resignation.
* Italo Nicoletto for Salò (26.2%) replaced Giuliano Procacci in 1986. Reason: resignation.