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1870 Italian general election

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Field	Value
country	Kingdom of Italy
type	legislative
previous_election	1867 Italian general election
previous_year	1867
next_election	1874 Italian general election
next_year	1874
seats_for_election	All 508 seats in the Chamber of Deputies255 seats needed for a majority
election_date	20 November 1870 (first round)
27 November 1870 (second round)
image1	Giovanni Lanza iii without oval frame.jpg
leader1	Giovanni Lanza
leaders_seat1	Vignale
party1	Historical Right
seats1	233
seat_change1	82
image2	Urbano Rattazzi lookingleft without oval frame.jpg
leader2	Urbano Rattazzi
leaders_seat2	Alessandria
party2	Historical Left
seats2	195
seat_change2	30
map_image	1870 Italian general election map.svg
map_caption	Constituencies used for the elections
title	Prime Minister
posttitle	Elected Prime Minister
before_election	Giovanni Lanza
after_election	Giovanni Lanza
before_party	Historical Right
after_party	Historical Right

27 November 1870 (second round)

General elections were held in Italy on 20 November 1870, with a second round of voting on 27 November. They were a snap election, called by Prime Minister Giovanni Lanza to take advantage by the Capture of Rome and to give parliamentary representation to the future capital of Italy.

Only 530,018 men of a total population of around 26 million were entitled to vote. They were largely aristocrats representing rentiers from the north of the country, and held moderate political views including loyalty to the crown and low government spending.

Campaign

The Historical Right was led by the Prime Minister of Italy, Giovanni Lanza, a conservative politician from Piedmont.

The bloc of the Historical Left was led by Urbano Rattazzi, a liberal politician and former Prime Minister, who led the left-wing for more than a decade.

The electoral result was controversial; in terms of percentages, Prime Minister Giovanni Lanza fully exploited the prestige of the Capture of Rome against his parliamentary opponents. However, the turnout further declined after the Non expedit of Pope Pius IX, so that less than 1% of the total population of the country took part to this election. The newly completed Italian State so revealed itself as a strict oligarchy with a deep fracture with its same population, creating a damage which was never really repaired.

After the election, Lanza was confirmed Prime Minister by the King.

Parties and leaders

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

Results

Notes

References

[[Dieter Nohlen]] & Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p1047 {{ISBN. 978-3-8329-5609-7
[[La Stampa]], Monday, December 5, 1870.
Nohlen & Stöver, p1028
The turnout was so low that many candidates that obtained a [[landslide]] in the first round, were obliged to the second round because the first one was annulled because the [[quorum]] of 50% of registered voters was not accomplished.
[http://www.archiviolastampa.it/component/option,com_lastampa/task,search/mod,libera/action,viewer/Itemid,3/page,1/articleid,1631_01_1870_0312_0001_18842952/anews,true/ La Stampa]

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