1987 Italian Senate election in Lombardy
Lombardy elected its tenth delegation to the Italian Senate on June 14, 1987. This election was a part of national Italian general election of 1987 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. Seven Lombard provinces gave a majority or at least a plurality to the winning party, while the agricultural Province of Pavia and Province of Mantua preferred the Italian Communist Party. Background. Bettino Craxi's Italian  Socialist Party reduced its gap with the Italian Communist Party after Enrico Berlinguer's death. Many minor parties obtained a seat: between them, for the first time, Umberto Bossi's Lega Lombarda (Lega Nord since 1991). 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. ! v|Party ! v|votes ! v|votes (%) ! v|seats ! v|swing ! v|Christian Democracy ! v|Italian Communist Party ! v|Italian Socialist Party ! v|Italian Social Movement ! v|Italian Republican Party ! v|Federation of Green Lists ! v|Lega Lombarda ! v|Radical Party ! v|Italian Democratic Socialist Party ! v|Italian Liberal Party ! v|Proletarian Democracy ! v|Others ! v|Total parties ! v|5,360,788 ! v|100.0 ! v|48 ! v|= Constituencies. ! v|N° ! v|Constituency ! v|Elected ! v|Party ! v|Votes % ! v|Others