# 1980 Apulia regional election

[Italy](https://electionsarchive.com/it.md) / [Puglia](https://electionsarchive.com/it/puglia.md), June 8, 1980

Turnout: 2,346,725 of 2,717,794 registered voters (86.3%). −3.1 points since 1975.

## [Regional Council of Apulia](https://electionsarchive.com/it/puglia/1980-06-08-general/consiglio.md)

Christian Democracy won 22 of the 50 seats, with 42.1% of the vote.

| Candidate or party | Votes | Share | Seats | Change |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Christian Democracy | 924,742 | 42.1% | 22 | +1 |
| Italian Communist Party | 539,964 | 24.6% | 13 | −2 |
| Italian Socialist Party | 291,667 | 13.3% | 6 | +1 |
| Movimento Sociale Italiano | 204,180 | 9.3% | 4 | −1 |
| Italian Democratic Socialist Party | 114,580 | 5.2% | 2 | 0 |
| Italian Republican Party | 54,409 | 2.5% | 1 | 0 |
| Italian Liberal Party | 35,608 | 1.6% | 1 | 0 |
| Partito di Unità Proletaria per il Comunismo | 28,663 | 1.3% | 1 |  |
| L.Radicale Pugliese | 1,823 | 0.1% |  |  |
| Lega Com.Riv. | 541 | <0.1% |  |  |

These results come from Ministero dell'Interno.

## Contests

- [1980 Apulia regional election, council lists](https://electionsarchive.com/it/puglia/1980-06-08-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 Apulia | 3.73 | 3.51 | 2.4 | 4.4 | 6.4 | 0.74 |

- From 2,196,177 votes and 50 seats.
- Compared with [1975 Apulia regional election](https://electionsarchive.com/it/puglia/1975-06-15-general.md).
- Measured over 257 municipalities.

Also available as HTML at https://electionsarchive.com/it/puglia/1980-06-08-general and JSON at https://electionsarchive.com/it/puglia/1980-06-08-general.json.