1963 Italian general election

The 1963 Italian general election was held on Sunday April 28. It was the first election with a fixed number of MPs to be elected, as decided by the second Constitutional Reform in February 1963. It was also the first election which saw the Secretary of Christian Democracy to refuse the office of Prime Minister after the vote, at least for six months, preferring to provisionally maintain his more influent post at the head of the party: this fact confirmed the transformation of Italian political system into a particracy, the secretaries of the parties having become more powerful than the Parliament and the Government.

1963 Italian general election

28 April 1963
Chamber of Deputies

All 630 seats in the Chamber of Deputies
316 seats needed for a majority
Turnout92.89% ( 0.94pp)
PartyLeader % Seats +/–
DC Aldo Moro 38.28 260 −13
PCI Palmiro Togliatti 25.26 166 +16
PSI Pietro Nenni 13.84 87 +3
PLI Giovanni Malagodi 6.97 39 +22
PSDI Giuseppe Saragat 4.45 23 New
MSI Arturo Michelini 5.11 27 +3
PDIUM Alfredo Covelli 1.75 8 −17
PRI Oronzo Reale 1.37 6 0
SVP Silvius Magnago 0.44 3 0
UV Severino Caveri 0.10 1 0
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
Senate of the Republic

All 315 seats in the Senate of the Republic
161 seats needed for a majority
Turnout95.88% ( 0.90pp)
PartyLeader % Seats +/–
DC Aldo Moro 36.47 132 +9
PCI Palmiro Togliatti 25.24 84 +25
PSI Pietro Nenni 14.01 44 +9
PLI Giovanni Malagodi 7.44 18 +14
PSDI Giuseppe Saragat 6.35 14 +9
MSI Arturo Michelini 5.31 15 +7
PDIUM Alfredo Covelli 1.56 2 −5
PRI Oronzo Reale 0.81 1 +1
SVP Silvius Magnago 0.41 2 0
PACS 0.16 1 New
UV Severino Caveri 0.11 1 +1
Independents 0.08 1 New
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
Prime Minister before Prime Minister after the election
Amintore Fanfani
DC
Giovanni Leone
DC
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