1992 Italian general election

The 1992 Italian general election was held on 5 and 6 April 1992. They were the first without the traditionally second most important political force in Italian politics, the Italian Communist Party (PCI), which had been disbanded in 1991. Most of its members split between the more democratic-socialist oriented Democratic Party of the Left (PDS), while a minority who did not want to renounce the communist tradition became the Communist Refoundation Party (PRC); however, between them they gained around 4% less than what the already declining PCI had obtained in the 1987 Italian general election, despite PRC absorbing the disbanded Proletarian Democracy (DP).

1992 Italian general election

5–6 April 1992
Chamber of Deputies

All 630 seats in the Chamber of Deputies
316 seats needed for a majority
Turnout87.36% ( 1.47 pp)
PartyLeader % Seats +/–
DC Arnaldo Forlani 29.65 206 −28
PDS Achille Occhetto 16.10 107 New
PSI Bettino Craxi 13.62 92 −2
Lega Nord Umberto Bossi 8.65 55 +54
PRC Sergio Garavini 5.61 35 New
MSI Gianfranco Fini 5.37 34 −1
PRI Giorgio La Malfa 4.39 27 +6
PLI Renato Altissimo 2.86 17 +6
Greens Carlo Ripa di Meana 2.79 16 +3
PSDI Franco Nicolazzi 2.72 16 −1
Network Leoluca Orlando 1.86 12 New
Pannella List Marco Pannella 1.24 7 −6
SVP Roland Riz 0.51 3 0
UV–PSd'Az–SSK–UfS Several leaders 0.39 1 −1
LAV Mario Rigo 0.39 1 New
Aosta Valley Several leaders 0.11 1 +1
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
Senate of the Republic

All 315 seats in the Senate of the Republic
163 seats needed for a majority
Turnout86.80% ( 1.57 pp)
PartyLeader % Seats +/–
DC Arnaldo Forlani 27.27 107 −18
PDS Achille Occhetto 17.05 67 New
PSI Bettino Craxi 13.57 49 +13
Lega Nord Umberto Bossi 8.20 25 +24
PRC Sergio Garavini 6.52 20 New
MSI Gianfranco Fini 6.51 16 0
PRI Giorgio La Malfa 4.70 10 +2
Greens Carlo Ripa di Meana 3.08 4 +1
PLI Renato Altissimo 2.82 4 +1
PSDI Franco Nicolazzi 2.56 3 −2
Network Leoluca Orlando 0.72 3 New
LAL Roberto Gremmo 0.58 1 New
UV–PSd'Az–SSK–UfS Several leaders 0.52 1 0
SVP Roland Riz 0.50 3 +1
LAV Mario Rigo 0.43 1 New
Aosta Valley Several leaders 0.10 1 0
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
Prime Minister before Prime Minister after the election
Giulio Andreotti
DC
Giuliano Amato
PSI

The other major feature was the sudden rise of the federalist Northern League, which increased its vote from 0.5% of the preceding elections to more than 8%, increasing from a single member both in the Chamber and the Senate to 55 and 25, respectively. The "long wave" (onda lunga) of Bettino Craxi's now centrist-oriented Italian Socialist Party, which in the past elections had been forecast next to overcome PCI, seemed to stop. Christian Democracy and the other traditional government parties, with the exception of the Republicans and the Liberals, also experienced a slight decrease in their vote.

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