1921 Italian general election

none Kingdom of Italy legislative 1919 Italian general election 1919 1924 Italian general election 1924 All 535 seats in the Chamber of Deputies 268 15 May 1921 130x130px Giovanni Bacci.jpg Giovanni Bacci Italian Socialist Party 123 33 1,631,435 24.69% 7.59pp Don Luigi Sturzo 1919.jpg Luigi Sturzo Italian People's Party (1919) 108 8 1,347,305 20.39% 0.14pp Giovanni Giolitti 1920 (cropped).png Giovanni Giolitti National Bloc (Italy, 1921) 105 New 1,260,007 19.07% New Antonio_Salandra.jpg Antonio Salandra Italian Democratic Liberal Party 105 28 684,855 10.36% 5.55pp No leader Liberals (Italy) 43 2 470,605 7.12% 1.51pp Colonna di Cesarò.jpg Giovanni Antonio Colonna DS 29 New 309,191 4.68% New 1921 Italian general election - Map.png #ED1B34 PSI #87CEFA PPI #15317E BN #FFE700 PLD#2975C2 PLI #1E99C5 DS #FF8282 PDR #B00000 SeT Prime Minister Elected Prime Minister Giovanni Giolitti Ivanoe Bonomi Italian Liberal Party PSRI General elections were held in Italy on 15 May 1921.Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p1047 978-3-8329-5609-7 It was the first election in which the recently acquired regions of Trentino-Alto Adige, Venezia Giulia, Zara and Lagosta island elected deputies, many of whom were from the Germanic and South Slavic ethnic groups.ITALY’S FRINGE OF ALIEN SUBJECTS, The New York Times, May 29, 1921Ministry of National Economy The 1921 election was the last free election before Benito Mussolini's fascist coup d'état. Background From 1919 to 1920, Italy was shocked by a period of intense social conflict following the First World War known as the Biennio Rosso (Red Biennium).Brunella Dalla Casa, Composizione di classe, rivendicazioni e professionalità nelle lotte del "biennio rosso" a Bologna, in: AA. VV, Bologna 1920; le origini del fascismo, a cura di Luciano Casali, Cappelli, Bologna 1982, p. 179. The revolutionary period was followed by the violent reaction of the Fascist Blackshirt militia and eventually by the March on Rome of Benito Mussolini in 1922. The Biennio Rosso took place in a context of economic crisis at the end of the war, with high unemployment and political instability. It was characterized by mass strikes, worker manifestations as well as self-management experiments through land and factories occupations. In Turin and Milan, workers councils were formed and many factory occupations took place under the leadership of anarcho-syndicalists. The agitations also extended to the agricultural areas of the Po Valley and were accompanied by peasant strikes, rural unrests and guerrilla conflicts between left-wing and right-wing militias. In the general election of 1921, the Liberal governing coalition, strengthened by the joining of Fascist candidates in the National Bloc (33 of whom were elected deputies), obtained a majority. The Italian Socialist Party, weakened by the split into the Communist Party of Italy, lost many votes and seats, while the Italian People's Party was steady around 20%. The Socialists were stronger in Lombardy (41.9%), than in their historical strongholds of Piedmont (28.6%), Emilia-Romagna (33.4%) and Tuscany (31.0%), due to the presence of the Communists (11.9, 5.2 and 10.5%), while the Populars were confirmed the largest party of Veneto (36.5%) and the Liberal parties in most Southern regions.Piergiorgio Corbetta; Maria Serena Piretti, Atlante storico-elettorale d'Italia, Zanichelli, Bologna 2009 Parties and leaders PartyIdeologyLeaderSeats in 1919Italian Socialist Party (PSI)SocialismGiovanni Bacci156Italian People's Party (PPI)Christian democracyLuigi Sturzo100Italian Democratic Liberal Party (PLDI)LiberalismAntonio Salandra96Liberal Party (PL)LiberalismNo leader41Combatants' Party (PdC)Veteran interestsNo leader20Italian Republican Party (PRI)RepublicanismEugenio Chiesa4National Bloc (BN)ConservatismGiovanni GiolittiDid not existSocial Democracy (DS)Social liberalismGiovanni Antonio ColonnaDid not existCommunist Party of Italy (PCdI)CommunismAmadeo BordigaDid not existReformist Democratic Party (PDR)Social liberalismNo leaderDid not exist Results File:Italian Parliament 1921.svg Italian Socialist Party 1631435 123 −33 Italian People's Party 1347305 108 +8 National BlocSeats distribution:Liberals (Italy) 1 PL: 58 seatsFasci Italiani di Combattimento 1 FIC: 35 seatsItalian Nationalist Association 1 ANI: 12 seats 1260007 105 New Italian Democratic Liberal Party 684855 68 −28 Liberal Party 470605 43 +2 Social Democracy 309191 29 New Communist Party of Italy 304719 15 New Italian Republican Party 124924 6 −3 Reformist Democratic Party 122087 11 New pink Combatants' Party 113839 10 −10 Lists of Slavs and Germans 88648 9 New Economic Party 53382 5 −2 Independent Socialists 37892 1 ±0 #CE234A Dissident Populars 29703 0 New lightblue Fasci Italiani di Combattimento 29549 2 New 93355 +27 11477210 National Institute of StatisticsNational Institute of Statistics Popular vote #ddd 550px 500px PSI Italian Socialist Party 24.69 PPI Italian People's Party (1919) 20.39 BN National Bloc (Italy, 1921) 19.07 PLDI Liberal Democratic Party (Italy) 10.36 PL Liberal Union (Italy) 7.12 DS Social Democracy (Italy, 1922) 4.68 PCdI Italian Communist Party 4.61 PRI Italian Republican Party 1.89 PDR pink 1.82 PdC #8B4513 1.72 SeT Lists of Slavs and Germans 1.34 PE Economic Party (Italy) 0.81 SI Independent Socialists #CE234A 0.57 PD Dissident Populars lightblue 0.45 FIC #000000 0.45 Seats #ddd 550px 500px PSI Italian Socialist Party 22.99 PPI Italian People's Party (1919) 20.19 BN National Bloc (Italy, 1921) 19.63 PLDI Liberal Democratic Party (Italy) 12.71 PL Liberal Union (Italy) 8.04 DS Social Democracy (Italy, 1922) 5.42 PCdI Italian Communist Party 2.80 PDR pink 2.06 PdC #8B4513 1.87 SeT Lists of Slavs and Germans 1.68 PRI Italian Republican Party 1.12 PE Economic Party (Italy) 0.93 FIC #000000 0.37 SI Independent Socialists #CE234A 0.18 Results by Region Region First party Second party Third party Abruzzo-Molise BN PLDI PSI Apulia BN PSI PPI Basilicata BN PLDI PPI Calabria BN PLDI SD Campania PLDI BN PSI Emilia-Romagna PSI BN PPI Lazio PPI BN PSI Liguria PSI BN PPI Lombardy PSI BN PPI Marche PPI PSI BN Piedmont PSI BN PLDI Sardinia BN PPI PSI Sicily BN SD PLDI Trentino PPI BN SeT Tuscany PSI PPI BN Umbria PSI PPI BN Veneto PPI PSI BN Venezia Giulia BN PPI SeT References General Category:General elections in Italy Category:Luigi Sturzo Italy