2022 Italian general election

A general election was held in Italy on 25 September 2022. The 2022 Italian government crisis, which led to the resignation of Prime Minister Mario Draghi, resulted in President Sergio Mattarella dissolving the Italian Parliament on 21 July, eight months before its natural expiration, and calling for new elections. Draghi continued to head the government as caretaker Prime Minister. The election saw the centre-right coalition, led by Giorgia Meloni's Brothers of Italy, a political party with neo-fascist roots, winning an absolute majority of Parliament seats. Meloni was appointed Prime Minister of Italy on 22 October and became the first woman to hold that position.

## Parties and leaders

|colspan="2" rowspan="2"|Coalition|colspan="2" rowspan="2"|Party|rowspan="2"|Ideology|rowspan="2"|Leader/s|colspan="3"|Seats at last election|colspan="3"|Seats at dissolution||||
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|rowspan="4" style="background:#1E90FF"||rowspan="4"|Centre-right coalition|style="background:#008000"||League (Lega)|Right-wing populism|Matteo Salvini|||||||
|style="background:#007FFF"||Forza Italia (FI)|Liberal conservatism|Silvio Berlusconi|||||||||||
|style="background:#003366"||Brothers of Italy (FdI)|National conservatism|Giorgia Meloni|||||||||||
|style="background:#0F52BA"||Us Moderates (NM)|Liberal conservatism|Maurizio Lupi|||||||||||
|rowspan="4" style="background:#EF3E3E"||rowspan="4" align=center|Centre-left coalition|style="background:#EF3E3E"||Democratic Party|Social democracy|Enrico Letta|||||||
|style="background:#1E889D"||Civic Commitment (IC)|Centrism|Luigi Di Maio|||||||||||
|style="background:#C80815"||Greens and Left Alliance (AVS)|Eco-socialism|Angelo Bonelli|||||||||||
|style="background:#FFD700"||More Europe (+E)|Liberalism|Emma Bonino|||||||||||
|style="background:#ffeb3b"||colspan="3"|Five Star Movement (M5S)|Populism|Giuseppe Conte||||||||||
|style="background:#003399"||colspan="3"|Action – Italia Viva (A–IV)|Liberalism|Carlo Calenda||||||||||
|style="background:#71256A"||colspan="3"|People's Union (UP)|Left-wing populism|Luigi de Magistris||||||||||
|style="background:#366A9F"||colspan="3"|Italexit|Euroscepticism|Gianluigi Paragone||||||||||
|style="background:#B04E4E"||colspan="3"|Italia Sovrana e Popolare (ISP)|Sovereigntism|Marco Rizzo||||||||||

### Overall results

|colspan="2" rowspan="2"|Coalition|colspan=2 rowspan=2|Party|colspan="3" style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top;"|Proportional|colspan="3" style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top;"|First-past-the-post|colspan="3" style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top;"|Overseas|style="text-align:center;" rowspan="2"|Total seats|style="text-align:center;" rowspan="2"|+/−|||||
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|colspan="15" style="text-align:center"||||||||||||||||||
|bgcolor="#1E90FF" rowspan="5"||style="text-align:left;" rowspan="5"|Centre-right coalition|bgcolor="#003366"||Brothers of Italy (FdI)||25.99|69||43.79|49||26.00|1|119||
|bgcolor="#008000"||League (Lega)||8.77|23|42|1|66||||||||||
|bgcolor="#007FFF"||Forza Italia (FI)||8.11|22|23|–|45||||||||||
|bgcolor="#0F52BA"||Us Moderates (NM)||0.91|–|7||||7||||||||
|**Total seats**||**114 **||**121 **||**2**|**237 **|||||||||||
|bgcolor="#EF3E3E" rowspan="6"||rowspan=6 style="text-align:left;"|Centre-left coalition|bgcolor="#EF3E3E"||Democratic Party (PD)||19.07|57||26.13|8||28.20|4|69||
|bgcolor="#C80815"||Greens and Left Alliance (AVS)||3.63|11|1||4.89|–|12|_New_|||||||
|bgcolor="#FFD700"||More Europe (+E)||2.83|–|2||2.76|–|2||||||||
|bgcolor="#1E889D"||Civic Commitment (IC)||0.60|–|1||1.07|–|1|_New_|||||||
|bgcolor="#48d1cc"||Aosta Valley (VdA)||||||1||||1||||||
|**Total seats**||**68 **||**13**||**4 **|**85 **|||||||||||
|style="background:#ffeb3b;"||Five Star Movement (M5S)||15.43|41||15.43|10||8.61|1|**52**||||||
|style="background:#003399;"||Action – Italia Viva (A–IV)||7.79|21||7.79|–||5.58|–|**21**|_New_|||||
|style="background:black;"||South Tyrolean People's Party – PATT (SVP–PATT)||0.42|1||0.42|2||||**3**||||||
|style="background:orange;"||South calls North (ScN)||0.76|–||0.76|1||||**1**|_New_|||||
|style="background:#333b8e;"||Associative Movement of Italians Abroad (MAIE)||||||||13.04|1|**1**||||||
|**Total**|**400**|**  **||||||||||||||||

#### Overall results

|colspan="2" rowspan="2"|Coalition|colspan=2 rowspan=2|Party|colspan="3" style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top;"|Proportional|colspan="3" style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top;"|First-past-the-post|colspan="3" style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top;"|Overseas|style="text-align:center;" rowspan="2"|Total seats|style="text-align:center;" rowspan="2"|+/−|||||
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|colspan="15" style="text-align:center"||||||||||||||||||
|bgcolor="#1E90FF" rowspan="5"||style="text-align:left;" rowspan="5"|Centre-right coalition|bgcolor="#003366"||Brothers of Italy (FdI)||26.02|34||44.02|31||27.05|–|65||
|bgcolor="#008000"||League (Lega)||8.85|13|17|–|30||||||||||
|bgcolor="#007FFF"||Forza Italia (FI)||8.27|9|9|–|18||||||||||
|bgcolor="#0F52BA"||Us Moderates (NM)||0.89|–|2||||2||||||||
|**Total seats**||**56 **||**59**||–|**115**|||||||||||
|bgcolor="#EF3E3E" rowspan="4"||rowspan=4 style="text-align:left;"|Centre-left coalition|bgcolor="#EF3E3E"||Democratic Party (PD)||18.96|31||25.99|6||33.98|3|40||
|bgcolor="#C80815"||Greens and Left Alliance (AVS)||3.53|3|1||||4|_New_|||||||
|bgcolor="#FFD700"||More Europe (+E)||2.94|–|–||||–||||||||
|**Total seats**||**34 **||**7**||**3**|**44**|||||||||||
|style="background:#ffeb3b;"||Five Star Movement (M5S)||15.55|23||15.55|5||9.34|–|**28**||||||
|style="background:#1E889D;"||Action – Italia Viva (A–IV)||7.73|9||7.73|–||6.98|–|**9**|_New_|||||
|style="background:black;"||South Tyrolean People's Party – PATT (SVP–PATT)||||||2||||**2**||||||
|style="background:orange;"||South calls North (ScN)||0.99|–||0.99|1||||**1**|_New_|||||
|style="background:#333b8e;"||Associative Movement of Italians Abroad (MAIE)||||||||12.73|1|**1**|±0|||||
|**Total**|**200**|**  **||||||||||||||||

## Infobox (election)

- **election name**: 2022 Italian general election
- **country**: Italy
- **type**: parliamentary
- **ongoing**: no
- **previous election**: 2018 Italian general election
- **previous year**: 2018
- **outgoing members**: Legislature XVIII of Italy
- **election date**: 25 September 2022
- **seats for election**: All 400 seats in the Chamber of Deputies (Italy), Chamber of Deputies ()All 200 elective seats in the Senate of the Republic (Italy), Senate of the Republic ()
- **opinion polls**: Opinion polling for the 2022 Italian general election
- **registered**: 46,021,956 ()45,210,950 ()
- **turnout**: 63.9% (9.0 percentage point, pp)
- **alliance name**: no
- **leader1**: Giorgia Meloni
- **party1**: Brothers of Italy
- **alliance1**: Centre-right coalition, Centre-right
- **color1**: 003366
- **leaders seat1**: Abruzzo (Chamber of Deputies constituency), L'Aquila ()
- **leader since1**: 8 March 2014
- **seats before1**: 37 ()21 ()
- **seats1**: 119 ()65 ()
- **seat change1**: 87 ()47 ()
- **popular vote1**: 7,284,952 ()
7,135,316 ()
- **percentage1**: 26.0% ()
26.0% ()
- **leader2**: Enrico Letta
- **party2**: Democratic Party (Italy), Democratic Party
- **alliance2**: Centre-left coalition, Centre-left
- **color2**: EF3E3E
- **leaders seat2**: Tuscany (Chamber of Deputies constituency), Siena ()
- **leader since2**: 2021  Democratic Party (Italy) leadership election, 14 March 2021
- **seats before2**: 97 ()40 ()
- **seats2**: 69 ()40 ()
- **seat change2**: 43 ()13 ()
- **popular vote2**: 5,337,738 ()
5,196,480 ()
- **percentage2**: 19.0% ()
18.9% ()
- **leader3**: Giuseppe Conte
- **leader since3**: 2021 Five Star Movement leadership election, 6 August 2021
- **leaders seat3**: Lombardy 1 (Chamber of Deputies constituency), Lombardy ()
- **party3**: Five Star Movement
- **alliance3**: —
- **color3**: ffeb3b
- **seats before3**: 104 ()61 ()
- **seats3**: 52 ()28 ()
- **seat change3**: 175 ()84 ()
- **popular vote3**: 4,315,497 ()
4,258,308 ()
- **percentage3**: 15.4% ()
15.5% ()
- **leader4**: Matteo Salvini
- **leader since4**: 2013 Lega Nord leadership election, 15 December 2013
- **leaders seat4**: Apulia ()
- **party4**: Lega Nord, League
- **alliance4**: Centre-right coalition, Centre-right
- **color4**: 008000
- **seats before4**: 132 ()60 ()
- **seats4**: 66 ()30 ()
- **seat change4**: 59 ()28 ()
- **popular vote4**: 2,458,752 ()
2,429,936 ()
- **percentage4**: 8.7% ()
8.8% ()
- **leader5**: Silvio Berlusconi
- **party5**: Forza Italia (2013), Forza Italia
- **alliance5**: Centre-right coalition, Centre-right
- **color5**: 007FFF
- **leaders seat5**: Province of Monza, Monza ()
- **leader since5**: 18 January 1994
- **seats before5**: 82 ()48 ()
- **seats5**: 45 ()18 ()
- **seat change5**: 59 ()39 ()
- **popular vote5**: 2,272,902 ()
2,269,208 ()
- **percentage5**: 8.1% ()
8.2% ()
- **leader6**: Carlo Calenda
- **party6**: Action (Italian political party), Action – Italia Viva
- **color6**: 003399
- **alliance6**: —
- **leaders seat6**: Lazio ()
- **leader since6**: 11 August 2022
- **seats before6**: 46 ()18 ()
- **seats6**: 21 ()9 ()
- **seat change6**: New
- **popular vote6**: 2,178,035 ()
2,117,480 ()
- **percentage6**: 7.7% ()
7.7% ()
- **title**: Prime Minister of Italy, Prime Minister
- **before election**: Mario Draghi
- **before party**: Independent politician, Independent
- **posttitle**: Prime Minister of Italy, Prime Minister after the election
- **after election**: Giorgia Meloni
- **after party**: Brothers of Italy