Italy's highly fragmented party system made it hard to identify an overall trend, but the results were generally seen as a defeat for Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and a victory for the centre-left opposition coalition identified with Romano Prodi, who was President of the European Commission until 2004, and was widely expected to re-enter Italian politics at the next election.
The common list of The Olive Tree, comprising mainly the Democrats of the Left and The Daisy became the largest list, with an important psychological effect. However, expectations for this list were originally somewhat larger, and Massimo D'Alema had proclaimed that "If the unity list reaches 33%, the government has to go".
While the Olive Tree's performance was not as phenomenal as it had hoped, the test indicated a somewhat reduced support for the centre-right coalition. However, in European elections, Italians tend to vote in a more candidate-oriented way, giving their vote more easily to a candidate outside their usual party; this generally reduces the significance of these elections.
The pure party-list proportional representation was the traditional electoral system of the Italian Republic since its foundation in 1946, so it had been adopted to elect the Italian representatives to the European Parliament too.
Two levels were used: a national level to divide seats between parties, and a constituency level to distribute them between candidates. Italian regions were united in 5 constituencies, each electing a group of deputies.
At national level, seats were divided between party lists using the largest remainder method with Hare quota. All seats gained by each party were automatically distributed to their local open lists and their most voted candidates.
Seats are allocated to party lists on a national basis using an electoral quota, with the residue given to the lists with the largest excess over whole quotas. An electoral quota is then calculated for each list and used to allocate seats to each list in each of the five electoral regions.
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The 2004 European Parliament election in Italy was held on 12 and 13 June 2004 2004 European Parliament election in Italy 1999 13 June 2004 2009 outgoing memberselected membersAll 78 Italian seats to the European ParliamentTurnout71 72 1 99 pp Party Leader Seats The Olive Tree Romano Prodi 31 08 28 4Forza Italia Silvio Berlusconi 20 93 16 6AN Gianfranco Fini 11 49 9 1PRC Fausto Bertinotti 6 06 5 1UDC Pier Ferdinando Casini 5 89 5 1Lega Nord Umberto Bossi 4 96 4 0Greens Alfonso Pecoraro Scanio 2 47 2 0PdCI Oliviero Diliberto 2 42 2 0Bonino List Emma Bonino 2 25 2 5IdV Antonio Di Pietro 2 14 2 NewUnited Socialists Gianni De Michelis 2 04 2 0UDEUR Clemente Mastella 1 29 1 0Social Alternative Alessandra Mussolini 1 23 1 NewPensioners Carlo Fatuzzo 1 15 1 0Tricolour Flame Luca Romagnoli 0 73 1 0SVP Elmar Pichler Rolle 0 45 1 0Major party in each Province Italy s highly fragmented party system made it hard to identify an overall trend but the results were generally seen as a defeat for Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and a victory for the centre left opposition coalition identified with Romano Prodi who was President of the European Commission until 2004 and was widely expected to re enter Italian politics at the next election The common list of The Olive Tree comprising mainly the Democrats of the Left and The Daisy became the largest list with an important psychological effect However expectations for this list were originally somewhat larger and Massimo D Alema had proclaimed that If the unity list reaches 33 the government has to go While the Olive Tree s performance was not as phenomenal as it had hoped the test indicated a somewhat reduced support for the centre right coalition However in European elections Italians tend to vote in a more candidate oriented way giving their vote more easily to a candidate outside their usual party this generally reduces the significance of these elections Contents 1 Electoral system 2 Main parties and leaders 2 1 Outgoing MEPs 2 2 Summary of parties 3 Results 4 Seats 5 References 6 External links 7 See alsoElectoral system editThe pure party list proportional representation was the traditional electoral system of the Italian Republic since its foundation in 1946 so it had been adopted to elect the Italian representatives to the European Parliament too Two levels were used a national level to divide seats between parties and a constituency level to distribute them between candidates Italian regions were united in 5 constituencies each electing a group of deputies At national level seats were divided between party lists using the largest remainder method with Hare quota All seats gained by each party were automatically distributed to their local open lists and their most voted candidates Main parties and leaders editOutgoing MEPs edit EP Group Seats Party MEPsEuropean People s Party European Democrats 34 87Forza Italia 22Union of Christian and Centre Democrats 4The Daisy 4Union of Democrats for Europe 2Pensioners Party 1South Tyrolean People s Party 1Socialist Group in the European Parliament 16 87Democrats of the Left 15Italian Democratic Socialists 1Union for Europe of the Nations 10 87National Alliance 9Segni Pact 1European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party Group 8 87The Daisy 4Italy of Values 2European Republicans Movement 1New Italian Socialist Party 1European United Left Nordic Green Left 6 87Communist Refoundation Party 4Party of Italian Communists 2Greens European Free Alliance 2 87 Federation of the Greens 2Non Inscrits 11 87Bonino List 7Northern League 3Independent 1Summary of parties edit nbsp A poster showing party lists for the 2004 European Parliament electionParty Main ideology Leader Europeanparty Outgoing MEPsThe Olive Tree Democrats of the Left DS Democracy is Freedom The Daisy DL Italian Democratic Socialists SDI European Republicans Movement MRE Several Social democracy Social liberalism Social democracy Social liberalism Romano Prodi Piero Fassino Francesco Rutelli Enrico Boselli Luciana Sbarbati Several PES EDP PES ELDR 25 78Forza Italia FI Liberal conservatism Silvio Berlusconi EPP 22 78National Alliance AN National conservatism Gianfranco Fini AEN 9 78Bonino List Libertarianism Emma Bonino None 7 78Union of Christian and Centre Democrats UDC Christian democracy Pier Ferdinando Casini EPP 4 78Communist Refoundation Party PRC Communism Fausto Bertinotti PEL 4 78Northern League LN Regionalism Umberto Bossi None 3 78Party of Italian Communists PdCI Communism Oliviero Diliberto PEL 2 78Federation of the Greens FdV Green politics Alfonso Pecoraro Scanio EGP 2 78Di Pietro Occhetto List Populism Antonio Di Pietro Achille Occhetto None 2 78Union of Democrats for Europe UDEUR Christian democracy Clemente Mastella EPP 2 78United Socialists for Europe Social democracy Gianni De Michelis Claudio Signorile None 1 78Pensioners Party PP Pensioners interests Carlo Fatuzzo ED 1 78Tricolour Flame FT Neo fascism Luca Romagnoli None 0 78Social Alternative AS Neo fascism Alessandra Mussolini None 0 78Results edit Summary of the 13 June 2004 European Parliament election results in Italy Party EP group Main candidate Votes Seats The Olive Tree Democrats of the Left DS Democracy is Freedom The Daisy DL Independent candidates Italian Democratic Socialists SDI European Republicans Movement MRE PES ALDE PES PES ALDE Lilli Gruber 10 105 836 31 08 1 53 nbsp 24 127221 3 nbsp 4 nbsp 0 nbsp 2 nbsp NewForza Italia FI EPP ED Silvio Berlusconi 6 806 245 20 93 4 23 nbsp 16 6 nbsp National Alliance AN UEN Gianfranco Fini 3 736 606 11 49 1 19 nbsp 9 1 nbsp Communist Refoundation Party PRC GUE NGL Fausto Bertinotti 1 969 776 6 06 1 79 nbsp 5 1 nbsp Union of Christian and Centre Democrats UDC EPP ED Salvatore Cuffaro 1 914 726 5 89 1 14 nbsp 5 1 nbsp Northern League LN IND DEM Umberto Bossi 1 613 506 4 96 0 48 nbsp 4 0 nbsp Federation of the Greens FdV Greens EFA Sepp Kusstatscher 803 356 2 47 0 71 nbsp 2 0 nbsp Party of Italian Communists PdCI GUE NGL Oliviero Diliberto 787 613 2 42 0 42 nbsp 2 0 nbsp Bonino List LB ALDE Emma Bonino 731 536 2 25 6 20 nbsp 2 5 nbsp Italy of Values IdV ALDE Antonio Di Pietro 695 179 2 14 New 2 NewUnited Socialists for Europe SUE NI Gianni De Michelis 664 463 2 04 New 2 NewPopular Alliance UDEUR AP UDEUR EPP ED Clemente Mastella 419 173 1 29 0 32 nbsp 1 0 nbsp Social Alternative LdA FN FSN NI Alessandra Mussolini 400 626 1 23 New 1 NewPensioners Party PP EPP ED Carlo Fatuzzo 374 343 1 15 0 40 nbsp 1 0 nbsp Tricolour Flame FT NI Luca Romagnoli 237 058 0 73 0 87 nbsp 1 0 nbsp Italian Republican Party The Liberals Sgarbi PRI LS ALDE 233 144 0 72 0 18 nbsp 0 1 nbsp Segni Scognamiglio Pact PSS None 172 556 0 53 0 1 nbsp LAL LFV PSd Az UfS None 160 101 0 49 0 0 nbsp Consumers List LC None 160 066 0 49 New 0 NewAbolizione Scorporo Greens Greens Federalist Greens None 158 988 0 49 New 0 NewSouth Tyrolean People s Party SVP 1 EPP ED Michl Ebner 146 357 0 45 0 05 nbsp 1 0 nbsp New Country PN None 78 003 0 24 New 0 NewNo Euro NE None 70 220 0 22 New 0 NewSocial Idea Movement MIS None 47 171 0 15 New 0 NewFederalism Valdostan Union others 1 None 29 598 0 09 0 04 nbsp 0 0 nbsp Valid votes 32 516 246 91 04Blank and Invalid votes 3 201 256 8 96Totals 35 717 655 100 00 78 Electorate and voter turnout 49 804 087 71 72Source Ministry of the InteriorPopular voteUlivo 31 1 FI 20 9 AN 11 5 PRC 6 1 UDC 5 9 LN 5 0 FdV 2 5 PdCI 2 4 Bonino 2 2 IdV 2 1 SUE 2 0 UDEUR 1 3 AS 1 2 PP 1 1 Others 4 7 Seats edit nbsp The five constituencies for European electionsSeats are allocated to party lists on a national basis using an electoral quota with the residue given to the lists with the largest excess over whole quotas An electoral quota is then calculated for each list and used to allocate seats to each list in each of the five electoral regions Electoral Region Administrative Regions SeatsNorth West Aosta Valley Liguria Lombardy Piedmont 23North East Emilia Romagna Friuli Venezia Giulia Trentino Alto Adige Sudtirol Veneto 15Central Latium Marche Tuscany Umbria 16Southern Abruzzo Apulia Basilicata Calabria Campania Molise 17Islands Sardinia Sicily 7References edit a b List connected with The Olive TreeExternal links editEuropean Election News by European Election Law Association Eurela See also edit2009 European Parliament election in Italy 2004 European Parliament election in Lombardy Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title 2004 European Parliament election in Italy amp oldid 1187266764, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
