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1876 Italian general election

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Field	Value
country	Kingdom of Italy
type	legislative
previous_election	1874 Italian general election
previous_year	1874
next_election	1880 Italian general election
next_year	1880
seats_for_election	All 508 seats in the Chamber of Deputies255 seats needed for a majority
election_date	5 November 1876 (first round)
12 November 1876 (second round)
image1	Agostino Depretis.jpg
leader1	Agostino Depretis
leaders_seat1	Stradella
party1	Historical Left
seats1	414
seat_change1	182
popular_vote1	243,319
percentage1	70.21%
image2	Marco Minghetti.jpg
leader2	Marco Minghetti
leaders_seat2	Legnago
party2	Historical Right
seats2	94
seat_change2	182
popular_vote2	97,726
percentage2	28.20%
map_image	1876 Italian general election map.svg
map_caption	Results by electoral college
title	Prime Minister
posttitle	Elected Prime Minister
before_election	Agostino Depretis
after_election	Agostino Depretis
before_party	Historical Left
after_party	Historical Left

12 November 1876 (second round)

General elections were held in Italy on 5 November, with a second round of voting on 12 November.

Campaign

The Historical Left was led by the current Prime Minister of Italy, Agostino Depretis, who became head of the government and early elections were called.

On the other hand, the bloc of the Historical Right was led by Marco Minghetti, former prime minister from Bologna.

The election on 5 and 12 November was a snap one, and it came after MPs from Tuscany became dissatisfied with the government of Minghetti following its refusal to intervene in the financial problems of Florence. The government was defeated on a vote on nationalising railways on 18 March 1876 and was forced to resign and Depretis was appointed prime minister. For the first time, the left-wing won an election, taking 414 of the 508 seats, of which 12 were extreme left-wingers. the left-wing government represented the bourgeoisie of the south of the country and supported low taxation, secularism, a strong foreign policy and public jobs.

Only 605,007 men of a total population of around 28 million were entitled to vote.

Parties and leaders

Party	Ideology	Leader
Historical Left}}"		Historical Left	Liberalism
Historical Right}}"		Historical Right	Conservatism

Results

References

[[Dieter Nohlen]] & Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p1047 {{ISBN. 978-3-8329-5609-7
Nohlen & Stöver, p1029
As opposed to the previous right-wing governments, whose members were largely aristocrats representing [[Rentier capitalism. rentiers]] from the north of the country, and held moderate political views including loyalty to the crown and low government spending,Nohlen & Stöver, p1028
Nohlen & Stöver, p1049
[https://ebiblio.istat.it/digibib/Elezioni/IST0003263Compendio_stat_elett_ita1848_1934_Vol2.pdf National Institute of Statistics]

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