1996 Italian general election

The 1996 Italian general election was held on 21 April 1996 to elect members of the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate of the Republic. Romano Prodi, leader of the centre-left The Olive Tree, won the election, narrowly defeating Silvio Berlusconi, who led the centre-right Pole for Freedoms.

1996 Italian general election
21 April 1996
All 630 seats in the Chamber of Deputies
316 seats needed for a majority
315 seats in the Senate
163 seats needed for a majority
Registered48,744,846 (C) · 42,889,825 (S)
Turnout40,401,774 (C) · 82.9% (3.4 pp)
35,260,803 (S) · 82.2% (3.6 pp)
  First party Second party
 
Leader Romano Prodi Silvio Berlusconi
Party Independent Forza Italia
Alliance The Olive Tree Pole for Freedoms
Leader since 6 March 1995 18 January 1994
Leader's seat Bologna (C) Milan (C)
Seats won 285 (C) / 157 (S) 246 (C) / 116 (S)
Seat change 20 (C) / 4 (S) 26 (C) / 40 (S)
Popular vote 15,747,455 (C)
13,434,607 (S)		 15,027,030 (C)
12,185,020 (S)
Percentage 42.0% (C)
41.2% (S)		 40.1% (C)
37.3% (S)
  Third party Fourth party
 
Leader Umberto Bossi Fausto Bertinotti
Party Lega Nord Communist Refoundation
Alliance — Progressives
Leader since 4 December 1989 22 January 1994
Leader's seat Lombardy (C) Piedmont (C)
Seats won 59 (C) / 27 (S) 35 (C) / 10 (S)
Seat change 58 (C) / 33 (S) 3 (C) / 8 (S)
Popular vote 3,776,354 (C)
3,394,733 (S)		 3,213,748 (C)
934,974 (S)
Percentage 10.1% (C)
10.4% (S)		 8.5% (C)
2.8% (S)
Results of the single-member constituencies in the Chamber of Deputies (left) and Senate (right)
Prime Minister before election

Lamberto Dini
Independent

 Prime Minister after the election

Romano Prodi
The Olive Tree

For the election, the Northern League of Umberto Bossi ran alone after having left the Berlusconi I Cabinet in 1994, causing a crisis which drove President Oscar Luigi Scalfaro to appoint a technocratic cabinet led by Lamberto Dini, which in turn lost its parliamentary support in 1995, forcing Scalfaro to dissolve the Italian Parliament. The Communist Refoundation Party, led by Fausto Bertinotti, made a pre-electoral alliance with The Olive Tree, presenting its own candidates, supported by Prodi's coalition, mainly in some safe leftist constituencies, in exchange for supporting Olive Tree candidates on the other ones, and ensuring external support for a Prodi government.

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