Chamber of Deputies
Senate
| Right | Chamb. 237 | Sen. 115 |
| Left | Chamb. 85 | Sen. 44 |
| Five Star | Chamb. 52 | Sen. 28 |
| Centre | Chamb. 21 | Sen. 9 |
| Others | Chamb. 5 | Sen. 4 |
Right alliance
Meloni's far-right party, Brothers of Italy, has overtaken Matteo Salvini's League as the ascendant force in the Italian right
Left alliance
The traditional centre-left force, the Democratic party, leads an electoral alliance comprised of smaller leftwing, green and centrist parties
Five Star Movement
The populist party is running alone, having triggered the snap election by withdrawing support from Mario Draghi's technocratic government
Centre alliance
Alliance of two centrist parties which broke with the Democratic party, led by Carlo Calenda and former PM Matteo Renzi
Others
A handful of small parties is expected to enter parliament. These could include the Eurosceptic Italexit and the traditional autonomist parties of South Tyrol and Valle d'Aosta
About the election
The vote was triggered when the Five Star Movement abruptly withdrew its support for Mario Draghi’s technocratic government, but an election was due next year in any event.
The last election, in 2018, brought the Five Star Movement to power, in coalition with Matteo Salvini’s rightwing populist League. Salvini later withdrew from the coalition, and Five Star formed a new government with the centre-left Democratic party. Then, in 2021, almost all parties supported the appointment of Mario Draghi as prime minister.
Italy has a truly bicameral parliament, in which the chamber of deputies and the senate have equal influence; any law must be approved by both, and any government must have the support of both.
Since 2018, the size of both chambers has been reduced, but electoral law is the same. Two thirds of seats are assigned proportionally, while the rest are assigned in first-past-the-post constituencies. This penalises smaller parties, and leads to the formation of strategic alliances aimed at winning in the single-member constituencies. Electoral alliances have no bearing on parties once members are elected, and won’t necessarily mirror the composition of the next government coalition.
Constituencies are broadly based on population, with exceptions to guarantee representation for two semi-autonomous regions, Val d’Aosta and Trentino-Alto Adige, and a small number of seats in each chamber representing Italians who live overseas.
These results are the official results as released by the interior ministry, not the projections which broadcasters and others make based on samples of results.