Popular Support
The electoral results of the Union of the Centre, previously known as Union of Christian and Centre Democrats, in the 10 most populated Regions of Italy are shown in the table below. As UDC was founded in 2002, the electoral results from 1994 to 2001 refer to the combined result of the precursor parties.
The Christian Democratic Centre (CCD) and the United Christian Democrats (CDU) formed joint-lists with Forza Italia respectively in 1994 (general) and 1995 (regional). The results of 1995 (regional) refer to CCD alone, those of 1996 (general) to the CCD-CDU joint-list, those of 1996 (Sicilian regional), 1999 (European) and 2000 (regional) to the combined result of CCD and CDU, those of 2001 (general) to the combined result of the CCD-CDU joint-list and of European Democracy (DE), which formed a separate list, that of 2001 (Sicilian regional) to the combined results of CCD, CDU and DE.
Since 2004 (European) the results refer to UDC. The 2006 (Sicilian regional) refers to the combined result of UDC (13.0) and of L'Aquilone–Lista del Presidente (5.7%), personal list of UDC regional leader Salvatore Cuffaro. The elected members of this list were all UDC members.
| 1994 general | 1995 regional | 1996 general | 1999 European | 2000 regional | 2001 general | 2004 European | 2005 regional | 2006 general | 2008 general | 2009 European | 2010 regional | 2013 general | |
| Piedmont | 3.0 | 4.4 | 3.3 | 4.5 | 3.5 | 5.0 | 4.6 | 6.2 | 5.2 | 6.1 | 3.9 | 1.2 | |
| Lombardy | 2.2 | 4.6 | 3.5 | 4.1 | 3.4 | 3.6 | 3.8 | 5.9 | 4.3 | 5.0 | 3.8 | 1.1 | |
| Veneto | 3.6 | 5.4 | 5.4 | 6.8 | 5.0 | 5.0 | 6.4 | 7.8 | 5.6 | 6.4 | 4.9 | 1.7 | |
| Emilia-Romagna | 4.8 | 4.8 | 2.7 | 3.7 | 3.4 | 2.8 | 3.9 | 5.8 | 4.3 | 4.7 | 3.8 | 1.1 | |
| Tuscany | 2.5 | 4.8 | 3.2 | 4.2 | 3.3 | 3.3 | 3.7 | 5.9 | 4.2 | 4.6 | 4.8 | 1.1 | |
| Lazio | 4.2 | 4.7 | 4.8 | 6.7 | 4.8 | 7.1 | 7.8 | 6.9 | 4.8 | 5.5 | 6.1 | 1.5 | |
| Campania | 9.7 | 8.0 | 6.8 | 8.5 | 7.5 | 7.0 | 6.7 | 6.8 | 6.5 | 8.7 | 9.4 | 3.6 | |
| Apulia | 5.6 | 7.6 | 6.0 | 6.2 | 6.8 | 8.1 | 7.8 | 7.8 | 7.9 | 9.1 | 6.5 | 2.0 | |
| Calabria | 9.0 | 9.0 | 9.4 | 13.3 | 9.5 | 9.6 | 10.4 | 7.7 | 8.2 | 9.3 | 9.4 | 4.1 | |
| Sicily | 19.0 | 8.1 | 7.9 | 24.3 | 14.4 | 14.0 | 18.7 | 10.0 | 9.4 | 11.9 | 12.5 | 2.8 | |
| ITALY | - | - | 5.8 | 4.8 | - | 5.6 | 5.9 | - | 6.8 | 5.6 | 6.5 | - | 1.8 |
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