The 1970 Lombard regional election 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 Christian Democracy was by far the largest party and christian-democrat Piero Bassetti was able to form a strong center-left government with the support of the PSI, the PSU and the PRI. Bassetti was replaced by Cesare Golfari in 1974. +PartiesVotes%SeatsChristian Democracy2,138,14140.9036Italian Communist Party1,210,06823.1419Italian Socialist Party648,69612.419Unitary Socialist Party376,4367.205Italian Liberal Party310,3245.944Italian Social Movement195,7913.643Italian Socialist Party of Proletarian Unity188,5853.612Italian Republican Party125,7672.412Italian Democratic Party of Monarchist Unity31,1190.60–Autonomists' Union of Italy3,3890.06–Total parties5,228,316100.0080Invalid/blank votes225,7204.14Registered voters5,453,93195.51Source: Ministry of the Interior – Results
Seats by province Province DC PCI PSI PSU PLI MSI PSIUP PRI Total Milan 12 9 4 3 3 2 1 1 35 Brescia 5 2 1 1 - 1 1 - 11 Bergamo 5 1 1 1 - - - - 8 Como 4 1 1 - 1 - - - 7 Varese 3 1 1 - - - - 1 6 Mantua 2 2 1 - - - - - 5 Pavia 2 2 - - - - - - 4 Cremona 2 1 - - - - - - 3 Sondrio 1 - - - - - - - 1Total 36 19 9 5 4 3 2 2 80