The 1999 European Parliament election in Italy was the election of the delegation from Italy to the European Parliament in 1999.
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All 87 Italian seats to the European Parliament | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Turnout | 69,73 ( 3.87 pp) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
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Electoral 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 | MEPs | |
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| European People's Party Group | 40 / 87
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| Forza Italia | 25 | |||
| Italian People's Party | 8 | |||
| Segni Pact | 3 | |||
| Christian Democratic Centre | 2 | |||
| South Tyrolean People's Party | 1 | |||
| Democratic Union for the Republic | 1 | |||
| Socialist Group | 19 / 87
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| Democrats of the Left | 16 | |||
| Italian Democratic Socialists | 2 | |||
| Movement of Unitarian Communists | 1 | |||
| European United Left/Nordic Green Left | 5 / 87
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| Communist Refoundation Party | 4 | |||
| Independent | 1 | |||
| Green Group | 3 / 87
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| Federation of the Greens | 2 | |||
| The Network | 1 | |||
| European Radical Alliance | 2 / 87
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Pannella List | 2 | |
| European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party Group | 1 / 87
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| Italian Republican Party | 1 | |||
| Union for Europe | 1 / 87
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Independent | 1 | |
| Non-Inscrits | 16 / 87
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| National Alliance | 10 | |||
| Northern League | 5 | |||
| Tricolour Flame | 1 | |||
Summary of parties
editResults
editThe election was won again by Forza Italia, just accepted to the European People's Party, that got 25.2% of the vote and 22 seats. The governing Democrats of the Left, led by Walter Veltroni, got 17.3% of the vote and 15 seats, while National Alliance, federated to Segni Pact, got only 10.3% of the vote and 9 seats (8 seats to AN and one seat to Segni Pact). Instead a good result was obtained by Bonino List, that gained 8.5% of the vote and 7 seats.
| National party | EP group | Main candidate | Votes | % | +/– | Seats | +/– | |||
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| Forza Italia (FI) | EPP-ED | Silvio Berlusconi | 7,813,948 | 25.16 | 5.46
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22 | 5
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| Democrats of the Left (DS) | PES | Walter Veltroni | 5,387,729 | 17.34 | 1.72
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15 | 1
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| National Alliance – Segni Pact (AN–PS) | UEN | Gianfranco Fini | 3,194,661 | 10.30 | 5.43
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9 | 5
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| Bonino List (LB) | TGI | Emma Bonino | 2,625,881 | 8.45 | 6.32 
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7 | 5
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| The Democrats (DEM) | ELDR | Antonio Di Pietro | 2,402,435 | 7.73 | New | 6 | New | |||
| South Tyrolean People's Party (SVP) | EPP-ED | Michl Ebner | 156,005 | 0.50 | 0.12
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1 | 0 
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| Federalism (Valdostan Union – Others) | None | 40,970 | 0.13 | 0.26
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0 | 0
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| Total | Mixed | 2,599,410 | 8.37 | New | 7 | New | ||||
| Northern League (LN) | TGI | Umberto Bossi | 1,395,547 | 4.48 | 2.08
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4 | 2
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| Communist Refoundation Party (PRC) | GUE/NGL | Fausto Bertinotti | 1,391,595 | 4.27 | 1.81
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4 | 1
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| Italian People's Party (PPI) | EPP-ED | Ciriaco De Mita | 1,316,830 | 4.24 | 5.76
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4 | 4
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| Christian Democratic Centre (CCD) | EPP-ED | Pier Ferdinando Casini | 805,320 | 2.59 | New | 2 | New | |||
| Italian Democratic Socialists (SDI) | PES | Enrico Boselli | 670,957 | 2.16 | 0.37
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2 | 1
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| United Christian Democrats (CDU) | EPP-ED | Nino Gemelli | 669,919 | 2.16 | New | 2 | New | |||
| Party of Italian Communists (PdCI) | GUE/NGL | Armando Cossutta | 622,261 | 2.00 | New | 2 | New | |||
| Federation of the Greens (FdV) | Greens/EFA | Reinhold Messner | 548,987 | 1.76 | 1.44
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2 | 1
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| Union of Democrats for Europe (UDEUR) | EPP-ED | Clemente Mastella | 498,742 | 1.61 | New | 1 | New | |||
| Tricolour Flame (FT) | TGI | Roberto Felice Bigliardo | 496,030 | 1.60 | New | 1 | New | |||
| Italian Renewal (RI) | EPP-ED | Pino Pisicchio | 353,890 | 1.14 | New | 1 | New | |||
| Pensioners' Party (PP) | EPP-ED | Carlo Fatuzzo | 233,874 | 0.75 | – | 1 | 1
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| Italian Republican Party – Federation of Liberals (PRI–FdL) | ELDR | Luciana Sbarbati | 168,620 | 0.54 | 0.36
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1 | 0
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| LVR – UfS – FG – Others | None | 117,979 | 0.38 | – | 0 | 0
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| Southern Action League (LAM) | None | 94,181 | 0.30 | 0.37
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0 | 0
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| Sardinian Action Party – Veneto North-East – Italian Consumers Party | None | 61,185 | 0.19 | – | 0 | 0
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| Socialist Party (PS) | None | 42,500 | 0.14 | New | 0 | New | ||||
| Humanist Party (PU) | None | 16,168 | 0.05 | – | 0 | 0
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| Cobas for Self-Organization | None | 4,432 | 0.01 | New | 0 | New | ||||
| Valid votes | 31,062,426 | 90.4 | ||||||||
| Blank and invalid votes | 3,315,038 | 9.6 | ||||||||
| Totals | 34,359,339 | 100 | — | 87 | 0
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| Electorate (eligible voters) and voter turnout | 49,278,309 | 69.73 | 3.87
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| Source: Ministry of the Interior | ||||||||||