The 1994 European Parliament election in Italy was the election of the

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from

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to the

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in 1994. It was the first continental election after the scandal of

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which destroyed the traditional republican parties of Italy: consequently, all new parties contested the race.

Electoral system

The pure

party-list proportional representation Party-list proportional representation (list-PR) is a system of proportional representation based on preregistered Political party, political parties, with each party being Apportionment (politics), allocated a certain number of seats Apportionm ...

was the traditional electoral system of the Italian Republic since its foundation in 1946, so it had been adopted to elect the Italian representatives to the European Parliament too. Two levels were used: a national level to divide seats between parties, and a constituency level to distribute them between candidates.

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s were united in 5 constituencies, each electing a group of deputies. At national level, seats were divided between party lists using the

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with

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. All seats gained by each party were automatically distributed to their local

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s and their most voted candidates.

Results

The new party (FI), led by the

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, won the election with 30.6% of the vote and 27 seats. The second party was the

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(PDS), main heir of the

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(PCI), that gained 19.1% of the vote and 16 seats, while the third party was

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(AN), heir of the

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(MSI), that gained 12.5% of the vote and 11 seats. The Italian People's Party (PPI), main heir of

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(DC), gained only 10.0% of the vote and 8 seats.

References

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Electoral system

Results

See also

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