One of the blessings of a two party system is that you only need two colours to colour the political map.
Not so with Italy.
The PDF file linked to below contains five maps of support for each of the main parties; they’ve been scaled so that provinces with the highest share for that party have been set to full saturation, and provinces with the lowest share, zero saturation. In other words, don’t try and compare between the maps. Full PDF available here.
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Thanks for this info Chris.
I live in Australia and am fluent in Italian. But when I tried to explain Italian politics in my blog (which is in English) linking your posts is such a help!
I find many English speaking people who are interested in politics throw their hands in the air when confronted with the complexity of Italian society, and how that is reflected in their politics.
Being used to a neat bipolarismo with either Labour or Conservative, Republican or Democrats and here in Australia, Labor or Liberal - they often dismiss Italian politics in the ‘too hard basket’ and often deriding it.
Anyway looking at you maps I would say that there is still a consistent pattern which has been present in post-war Italy where the central regions are still voting mostly left wing parties, while the south lean more on the right.
It also shows how the Lega is mainly a ‘pre alpine’ party. When I grew up in Italy in the 60’s the Democrazia Cristiana did get plenty of votes in the North, especially in the Veneto region. This is completely gone now with the UDC unable to recapture that electorate.
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