1989 European Parliament election in Italy

1989 European Parliament election in Italy

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outgoing members elected members
All 81 Italian seats to the European Parliament
Turnout	81.07% ( 1.4 pp)
Party Leader Vote % Seats +/– DC Arnaldo Forlani 32.9% 26 0 PCI Achille Occhetto 27.6% 22 −5 PSI Bettino Craxi 14.8% 12 +3 MSI Gianfranco Fini 5.5% 4 −1 PLI–PRI–Fed. R. Altissimo, G. La Malfa & M. Pannella 4.4% 4 −1 Green List Gianni F. Mattioli 3.8% 3 New PSDI Antonio Cariglia 2.7% 2 −1 Rainbow Greens Mario Capanna 2.4% 2 New Lega Lombarda Umberto Bossi 1.8% 2 +2 DP Giovanni Russo Spena 1.3% 1 0 Antiprohibitionists Marco Taradash 1.2% 1 −2 PSd'Az – others Collective leadership 0.6% 1 0 SVP Silvius Magnago 0.5% 1 0 This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below. Result by leading party in each province

The 1989 European Parliament election in Italy was held on 18 June 1989. The election was paired with 1989 Italian advisory referendum, a non-binding referendum about the devolution of powers to the European Economic Community (EEC), which passed with overwhelming support from voters.

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.

For more than 35 years, the Italian Communist Party (PCI) had thought that their final victory was no more than a matter of time; however, the deindustrialization of Italy during the 1980s showed that the time had expired. The decline of the traditional opponents of Christian Democracy (DC) opened the door to new forms of protests: the Federation of Green Lists (LV) and the Lombard League (LL) in Northern Italy. The government of Ciriaco De Mita did not survive to this vote. The declining Italian Republican Party (PRI) fired its leader Giovanni Spadolini, and the new secretary Giorgio La Malfa retired his support to De Mita. The DC chose Giulio Andreotti as the new prime minister.

← Summary of the 18 June 1989 European Parliament election results in Italy →

National party		EP group	Votes	%	+/–	Seats	+/–
	Christian Democracy (DC)	EPP	11,451,053	32.90	0.06	26	0
	Italian Communist Party (PCI)	EUL	9,598,369	27.58	5.75	22	5
	Italian Socialist Party (PSI)	SOC	5,151,929	14.80	3.59	12	3
	Italian Social Movement (MSI)	NI	1,918,650	5.51	0.96	4	1
	Liberals – Republicans – Federalists (PLI–PRI–FED)	LDR / NI	1,532,388	4.40	1.69	4	1
	Green List (LV)	Green	1,317,119	3.78	New	3	New
	Italian Democratic Socialist Party (PSDI)	SOC	945,383	2.72	0.77	2	1
	Rainbow Greens (VA)	Green	830,980	2.39	New	2	New
	Lombard League – Northern Alliance (LL–AN)	RBW	636,242	1.83	1.36	2	2
	Proletarian Democracy (DP)	Green	449,639	1.29	0.15	1	0
	Antiprohibitionist List (LA)	Green	430,150	1.24	2.43	1	2
	Federalism (PSd'Az–UV–MF–UfS–UPV–SSK)	RBW	207,739	0.60	0.05	1	0
	South Tyrolean People's Party (SVP)	EPP	172,383	0.50	0.06	1	0
	Pensioners' Party (PP)	None	162,293	0.47	New	0	New
Valid votes			34.804.317	92.63
Blank and invalid votes			2,768,442	7.37
Totals			37,572,759	100.00	—	81	0
Electorate (eligible voters) and voter turnout				46,346,961	81.07	1.40
Source: Ministry of the Interior

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