1970 Tuscan regional election
# 1970 Tuscan regional election

The Tuscan regional election of 1970 took place on 7–8 June 1970. It was the first-ever regional election.

## Electoral law

Election was held under proportional representation with provincial constituencies where the largest remainder method with a Droop quota was used. To ensure more proportionality, remained votes and seats were transferred at regional level and calculated at-large.

## Results

The Italian Communist Party was by far the largest party. After the election, the Communists formed a left-wing coalition government with the Italian Socialist Party and the Italian Socialist Party of Proletarian Unity. Lelio Lagorio, a Socialist, was elected President of the Region.

seats :

| Italian Communist Party | 985,382 | 42.3 | 23 |
| - | - | - | - |
| Christian Democracy | 710,908 | 30.5 | 17 |
| Italian Socialist Party | 203,560 | 8.7 | 3 |
| Unitary Socialist Party | 148,946 | 6.4 | 3 |
| Italian Social Movement | 88,876 | 3.8 | 1 |
| Italian Socialist Party of Proletarian Unity | 73,947 | 3.1 | 1 |
| Italian Liberal Party | 61,298 | 2.6 | 1 |
| Italian Republican Party | 51,954 | 2.2 | 1 |
| Italian Democratic Party of Monarchist Unity | 2,309 | 0.1 | - |
| Red Star | 1,016 | 0.0 | - |
| Total | 2,328,196 | 100.0 | 50 |

Source: Ministry of the Interior

