The 2022 Italian general election was held on 25 September, resulting in a majority of seats of both houses of the Italian Parliament for the centre-right coalition. The Meloni Cabinet was announced on 21 October and was officially sworn in on the next day. The first Cabinet headed by a female Prime Minister of Italy, it was variously described as a shift to the political right, as well as the first far-right-led Italian government since World War II. The Meloni Cabinet successfully won the confidence votes on 25âÂÂ26 October with a comfortable majority in both houses of Parliament.
Voter turnout was the lowest in the history of republican Italy at 63.9%, about 9 percentage points below the 2018 election.
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Using the Gallagher index, the disproportionality of both houses was 12.31 and 10.83. For comparison, the disproportionality in the 2018 election was 5.50 and 6.12.
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