1880 Italian general election

none Kingdom of Italy legislative 1876 Italian general election 1876 1882 Italian general election 1882 All 508 seats in the Chamber of Deputies255 seats needed for a majority 16 May 1880 (first round)23 May 1880 (second round) 130x130px Agostino Depretis.jpg Agostino Depretis Historical Left 218 196 146,096 40.76% 29.45 pp Marco Minghetti.jpg Marco Minghetti Historical Right 171 77 135,717 37.86% 9.66 pp Giuseppe Zanardelli iii without oval frame.jpg Giuseppe Zanardelli Dissident Left 119 New 70,479 19.66% New 1880 Italian general election map.svg Results by electoral college Prime Minister Subsequent Prime Minister Benedetto Cairoli Benedetto Cairoli Historical Left Historical Left General elections were held in Italy on 16 May 1880, with a second round of voting on 23 May.Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p1047 978-3-8329-5609-7 Campaign The Historical Left was led by the Prime Minister of Italy, Agostino Depretis, longtime Prime Minister of Italy. The bloc of the Historical Right was led by Marco Minghetti, a conservative politician and former Prime Minister, from Bologna. A third large parliamentary group was the Dissident Left, composed by former members of the Left, which were against the alliance with the Right. Also known as La Pentarchia (The Pentarchy), its main leader was Giuseppe Zanardelli, a jurisconsult from Brescia. Parties and leaders PartyIdeologyLeaderHistorical LeftLiberalismAgostino DepretisHistorical RightConservatismMarco MinghettiDissident LeftProgressivismGiuseppe Zanardelli Results The Historical Left group emerged as the largest in Parliament, although left-wing dissidents won 119 of the 508 seats, becoming the third parliamentary group.Nohlen & Stöver, p1082 Only 621,896 men of a total population of around 29 million were entitled to vote.Nohlen & Stöver, p1049 Benedetto Cairoli was confirmed Prime Minister by the king Umberto I. File:Italian Parliament 1880.svg Historical Left 146096 218 −196 Historical Right 135717 171 +77 Dissident Left 70479 119 New Others 6147 0 0 11245 – 0 0 621896 – National Institute of Statistics References Category:General elections in Italy General Italy