46.7%, 16 seats 17.4%, 6 seats 16 7 1,805,779 747,266 Start date May 25, 1958 | 17.4%, 6 seats 18.2%, 6 seats 7 6 747,266 746,880 | |
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Lombardy elected its third delegation to the Italian Senate on May 25, 1958. This election was a part of national Italian general election of 1958 even if, according to the Italian Constitution, every senatorial challenge in each Region is a single and independent race.
Contents
The election was won by the centrist Christian Democracy, as it happened at national level. All Lombard provinces gave a majority or at least a plurality to the winning party.
Background
Even if Amintore Fanfani's Christian Democracy weakened in this election, Lombardy remained a stronghold for the national leading party.
As it happened five years before, the Communists obtained some seats in the agricultural south, while the Socialists remarked their strength in the Milanese industrial neighbourhood. The centre-left PSDI obtained two seats in Milan, a city led by Social-democratic mayor Virgilio Ferrari, while the rightist MSI and PLI obtained some good results in the bourgeois center of Milan.
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
Sources: Italian Ministry of the Interior