1985 Lombard regional election

The 1985 Lombard regional election took place on 12 May 1985. The 4th term of the Regional Council was chosen.

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Largest party by municipality

Electoral law

The election was held under proportional representation with provincial constituencies where the largest remainder method with a Droop quota was used. To ensure more proportionality, the remained votes and seats were transferred at regional level and calculated at large.

Results

The Christian Democracy party was by far the largest party, despite a slight decline in term of votes. After the election Giuseppe Guzzetti was re-elected president for the third time at the head of a center-left coalition comprising also the PSI, the PSDI, the PLI and the PRI. In 1986 Guzzetti was replaced by Bruno Tabacci, to whom Giuseppe Giovenzana succeeded in 1989.

12 May 1985 Lombard regional election results

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Parties		Votes	%	Seats	+/-
	Christian Democracy	2,204,685	36.03	31	Decrease3
bgcolor="Template:Party color" |	Italian Communist Party	1,632,676	26.68	22	Decrease1
bgcolor="Template:Party color" |	Italian Socialist Party	941,395	15.38	12	Increase1
bgcolor="Template:Party color" |	Italian Social Movement	363,918	5.95	4	Increase1
bgcolor="Template:Party color" |	Italian Republican Party	293,359	4.79	4	Increase2
bgcolor="Template:Party color" |	Italian Democratic Socialist Party	170.763	2.79	2	Decrease1
bgcolor="Template:Party color" |	Green List	146,835	2.40	2	Increase2
bgcolor="Template:Party color" |	Italian Liberal Party	143,641	2.35	1	Decrease1
	Proletarian Democracy	136,781	2.24	2	IncreaseDecrease
bgcolor="Template:Party color" |	National Pensioners' Party	32,945	0.54	–
	Lombard League	28,074	0.46	–
bgcolor="Template:Party color" |	Valdostan Union – Democratic Party – others	15,475	0.25	–
	Humanist Party	4,448	0.07	–
	Monarchist National Party	4,352	0.07	–
Total parties		6,119,347	100.00	80
Invalid/blank votes		331,013
Registered voters		6,450,360	92.81
Source: Ministry of the Interior – Results

Popular vote DC   36.03% PCI   26.68% PSI   15.38% MSI   5.95% PRI   4.79% PSDI   2.79% Greens   2.40% PLI   2.35% DP   2.24% Others   1.39%

Seats by province

Province	DC	PCI	PSI	MSI	PRI	PSDI	Greens	PLI	DP	Total
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Milan	11	11	6	2	3	1	1	1	1	37
Brescia	4	2	1	1	-	1	1	-	-	10
Bergamo	5	2	1	-	-	-	-	-	1	9
Varese	3	2	1	1	1	-	-	-	-	8
Como	3	1	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	5
Pavia	2	2	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	5
Mantua	1	1	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	3
Cremona	1	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2
Sondrio	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1
Total	31	22	12	4	4	2	2	1	2	80