Lombard regional election, 1970

The Lombard regional election of 1970 took place on 7 June 1970. It was the first-ever regional election.

Electoral law

Election was held under proportional representation with provincial constituencies where the largest remainder method with a Droop quota was used. To ensure more proportionality, remained votes and seats were transferred at regional level and calculated at-large.

Results

Christian Democracy was by far the largest party and Christian Democrat Piero Bassetti formed a government with the support of the Italian Socialist Party, the Italian Democratic Socialist Party and the Italian Republican Party. Bassetti was replaced by Cesare Golfari in 1974.

Parties	votes	%	seats
Christian Democracy	2,138,141	40.9	36
Italian Communist Party	1,210,068	23.1	19
Italian Socialist Party	648,696	12.4	9
Italian Democratic Socialist Party	376,436	7.2	5
Italian Liberal Party	310,324	5.9	4
Italian Social Movement	195,791	3.7	3
Italian Socialist Party of Proletarian Unity	188,585	3.6	2
Italian Republican Party	125,767	2.4	2
Others	34,508	0.6	-
Total	5,710,352	100.0	80

Source: Ministry of the Interior

Seats by province

Parties	BG	BS	CO	CR	MN	MI	PV	SO	VA	Total
Christian Democracy	5 (new)	5 (new)	4 (new)	2 (new)	2 (new)	12 (new)	2 (new)	1 (new)	3 (new)	36
Italian Communist Party	1 (new)	2 (new)	1 (new)	1 (new)	2 (new)	9 (new)	2 (new)	-	1 (new)	19
Italian Socialist Party	1 (new)	1 (new)	1 (new)	-	1 (new)	4 (new)	-	-	1 (new)	9
Italian Democratic Socialist Party	1 (new)	1 (new)	-	-	-	3 (new)	-	-	-	5
Italian Liberal Party	-	-	1 (new)	-	-	3 (new)	-	-	-	4
Italian Social Movement	-	1 (new)	-	-	-	2 (new)	-	-	-	3
Italian Socialist Party of Proletarian Unity	-	1 (new)	-	-	-	1 (new)	-	-	-	2
Italian Republican Party	-	-	-	-	-	1 (new)	-	-	1 (new)	2
Total	8	11	7	3	5	35	4	1	6	80