# 1985 Marche regional election

[Italy](https://electionsarchive.com/it.md) / [Marche](https://electionsarchive.com/it/marche.md), May 12, 1985

Turnout: 1,054,558 of 1,155,684 registered voters (91.2%). +0.50 points since 1980.

## [Regional Council of Marche](https://electionsarchive.com/it/marche/1985-05-12-general/consiglio.md)

Christian Democracy won 15 of the 40 seats, with 36.1% of the vote.

| Candidate or party | Votes | Share | Seats | Change |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Christian Democracy | 359,614 | 36.1% | 15 | −1 |
| Italian Communist Party | 355,325 | 35.7% | 15 | 0 |
| Italian Socialist Party | 104,480 | 10.5% | 4 | 0 |
| Movimento Sociale Italiano | 55,456 | 5.6% | 2 | +1 |
| Italian Republican Party | 36,577 | 3.7% | 1 | 0 |
| Italian Democratic Socialist Party | 32,422 | 3.3% | 1 | 0 |
| Liste Verdi | 22,252 | 2.2% | 1 |  |
| Italian Liberal Party | 11,802 | 1.2% | 1 | 0 |
| Democrazia Proletaria | 10,134 | 1.0% |  |  |
| L.Ven.-All.I.P. | 5,367 | 0.5% |  |  |
| UV-PD-Upap-Ecol. | 2,036 | 0.2% |  |  |

These results come from Ministero dell'Interno.

## Contests

- [1985 Marche regional election, council lists](https://electionsarchive.com/it/marche/1985-05-12-general/consiglio.md)

## Party system indices

[How these indices are computed](https://electionsarchive.com/indices.md)

| Chamber | Effective parties by votes | Effective parties by seats | Gallagher index | Loosemore–Hanby index | Volatility | Nationalization |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Regional Council of Marche | 3.63 | 3.38 | 2.3 | 4.8 | 5.7 | 0.78 |

- From 995,465 votes and 40 seats.
- Compared with [1980 Marche regional election](https://electionsarchive.com/it/marche/1980-06-08-general.md).
- Measured over 246 municipalities.

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