1900 Italian general election

none Kingdom of Italy legislative 1897 Italian general election 1897 1904 Italian general election 1904 All 508 seats in the Chamber of Deputies 255 3 June 1900 (first round)10 June 1900 (second round) 130x130px Giovanni Giolitti.jpg Giovanni Giolitti Ministerials 296 33 663,418 52.3% 12.0 pp Sidney sonnino.jpg Sidney Sonnino Constitutional opposition 116 17 271,698 21.4% 2.0 pp Filippo Turati 3.jpg Filippo Turati Italian Socialist Party 33 29 164,946 13.0% 10.0 pp Ettore Sacchi.jpeg Ettore Sacchi Radical opposition 34 8 89,872 7.1% 1.1 pp Napoleone Colajanni2.jpg Napoleone Colajanni Italian Republican Party 29 4 79,127 6.2% 0.4 pp Prime Minister Subsequent Prime Minister Luigi Pelloux Giuseppe Saracco Military Ministerials General elections were held in Italy on 3 June 1900, with a second round of voting on 10 June.Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p1047 978-3-8329-5609-7 The "ministerial" left-wing bloc remained the largest in Parliament, winning 296 of the 508 seats.Nohlen & Stöver, p1083 Background Upon the fall of Antonio Starabba di Rudinì in June 1898, General Luigi Pelloux was entrusted by King Umberto with the formation of a cabinet, and took for himself the post of minister of the interior. He resigned office in May 1899 over his Chinese policy, but was again entrusted with the formation of a government. His new cabinet was essentially military and conservative, the most decisively conservative since 1876. He took stern measures against the revolutionary elements in southern Italy. The Public Safety Bill for the reform of the police laws, taken over by him from the Rudinì cabinet, and eventually promulgated by royal decree. The law made strikes by state employees illegal; gave the executive wider powers to ban public meetings and dissolve subversive organisations; revived the penalties of banishment and preventive arrest for political offences; and tightened control of the press by making authors responsible for their articles and declaring incitement to violence a crime.Seton-Watson, Italy from liberalism to fascism, 1870-1925, p. 193 The new coercive law was fiercely obstructed by the Socialist Party of Italy (PSI), which, with the Left and Extreme Left, succeeded in forcing General Pelloux to dissolve the Chamber in May 1900, and to resign office after the general election in June. Electoral system The election was held using 508 single-member constituencies. However, prior to the election the electoral law was amended so that candidates needed only an absolute majority of votes to win their constituency, abolishing the second requirement of receiving the votes of at least one-sixth of registered voters.Nohlen & Stöver, p1039 Parties and leaders PartyIdeologyLeaderMinisterialsLiberalismGiovanni GiolittiConstitutional oppositionConservatismSidney SonninoItalian Socialist PartySocialismFilippo TuratiRadical oppositionRadicalismEttore SacchiItalian Republican PartyRepublicanismNapoleone Colajanni Results File:Italian Parliament 1900.svg Ministerials 663418 296 −33 Constitutional opposition 271698 116 +17 Italian Socialist Party 164946 33 +18 Radical opposition 89872 34 −8 Italian Republican Party 79127 29 +4 38888 0 2248509 National Institute of Statistics References Category:General elections in Italy General Italy