1970 Lombard regional election

The 1970 Lombard regional election took place on 7–8 June 1970. It was the first-ever regional election.

Largest party by municipality

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

The Christian Democracy was by far the largest party and christian-democrat Piero Bassetti was able to form a strong center-left government with the support of the PSI, the PSU and the PRI. Bassetti was replaced by Cesare Golfari in 1974.

7 June 1970 Lombard regional election results

Parties		Votes	%	Seats
	Christian Democracy	2,138,141	40.90	36
	Italian Communist Party	1,210,068	23.14	19
	Italian Socialist Party	648,696	12.41	9
	Unitary Socialist Party	376,436	7.20	5
	Italian Liberal Party	310,324	5.94	4
	Italian Social Movement	195,791	3.64	3
	Italian Socialist Party of Proletarian Unity	188,585	3.61	2
	Italian Republican Party	125,767	2.41	2
	Italian Democratic Party of Monarchist Unity	31,119	0.60	–
	Autonomists' Union of Italy	3,389	0.06	–
Total parties		5,228,316	100.00	80
Invalid/blank votes		225,720	4.14
Registered voters		5,453,931	95.51
Source: Ministry of the Interior – Results

Popular vote DC   40.90% PCI   23.14% PSI   12.41% PSU   7.20% PLI   5.94% MSI   3.64% PSIUP   3.61% PRI   2.41% Others   0.66%

Seats by province

Province	DC	PCI	PSI	PSU	PLI	MSI	PSIUP	PRI	Total
Milan	12	9	4	3	3	2	1	1	35
Brescia	5	2	1	1	-	1	1	-	11
Bergamo	5	1	1	1	-	-	-	-	8
Como	4	1	1	-	1	-	-	-	7
Varese	3	1	1	-	-	-	-	1	6
Mantua	2	2	1	-	-	-	-	-	5
Pavia	2	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	4
Cremona	2	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	3
Sondrio	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1
Total	36	19	9	5	4	3	2	2	80