Italy Election Maps

[minionofmidas]

Any specific reason for your interest in 1983?

Trying to find out which horrible areas helped Craxi become Italy's second longest Prime Minister. 

The blue areas of course, since the PCI didn't participate in Craxi's governments.

Hmmm...explain further. I thought this election led to Craxi's election as Prime Minister.

And it did. The DC was so kaputt by then it couldn't settle on any compromise leader from within it so they choose one from another section of the Pentapartito (see also, Aldo Spadolini). The PSI was making gains.

[minionofmidas]

1974 Divorce referendum



YES: Repeal of the divorce law, thus making divorce illegal again. Supported by DC.

Is that supposed to be a map of People who vote DC because they like Christian Conservative Values vs People who vote DC because they like Corrupt Values That Are Good For Business?

[minionofmidas]

Also noticeable due to the ingathering of the Right Wing Third Party vote (very high in the South in 1946) into the DC. Which was again partially undone in 1953.

[minionofmidas]

Sicilians like corrupt values because they're good for business. Duh.

[minionofmidas]

The orange in the 1946 is the PSIUP, which split in 1948 over the issue of a common front with the Communists. The minority who refused became the PSDI, and almost instantly became just a corrupt stand-for-very-little minor government partner of the DC. The majority quickly abandoned the alliance with the Commies and became the PSI. When the PSI followed the PSDI on the road to disgustingness 20 years on (and even ran a united slate once), it actually suffered another minor schism.

[minionofmidas]

The US was basically what later became the PSDI, and was a right-wing splinter of the Socialists opposed to the FDP coalition. It went on to become a corrupt machine party allied with the DC.

Eventually things got to the point that, in some respects, the PSDI became the most conservative of the Pentapartito.

No, I think that was always the PLI.

A note on why the PLI is "Liberal": The ramifications of Italian reunification by Piemont and the annexation of the Papal State (and the Church's post-1870 attitude) meant that pro-government Conservatism (and the other type mostly didn't partake in elections) was "Liberal" and what elsewhere would have been called "Liberal" was variously termed "Democratic", "Radical" or "Republican" (which is where the postwar PRI gets its name from).

Of course, Germany's "National Liberals" weren't much different...

[minionofmidas]

How can a minor party have 1% of its legislators under investigation - or is that including provincial and municipal councils?

[minionofmidas]

It's a rounding issue I think; Lega Nord had 80 deputies and senators after the 1992 elections

Oh. Right. Sorry.

[minionofmidas]

I seem to recall something about tenant radicalism there, but my recollection is super vague. Tradition died out over time.

[minionofmidas]

He heads all or almost all his parties' constituency lists. He then has to resign every seat he wins but one.

[minionofmidas]

Is that 1994 ?

And what makes FI so strong in Sicilia ?

The Mafia endorsement. (Or just the usual "yeah, we aren't that bad. Damn outsiders not understanding anything" mood.)


Who was AD?

[minionofmidas]

I guess Sicily also liked the "new guy that can solve all of our problems" in spite (or maybe because) of the fact that he was a northern businessman.

"New" in the sense of "old wine, new bottle"?

I kind of like the PSI/PSDI maps. More ordinary southern folk who thought the north and the media had their knickers in a twist.

[minionofmidas]

The big name in La Rete was Leoluca Orlando, who's in Italia dei Valori now (and still an MP).

[minionofmidas]

The only thing that's incomprehensible is why the PCI agreed to it.