Membership
The current membership of the Italian Senate, following the latest political elections of 24 and 25 February 2013:
| Coalition | Party | Seats | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pier Luigi Bersani: Italy. Common Good |
Democratic Party (PD) | 111 | ||
| Left Ecology Freedom (SEL) | 7 | |||
| South Tyrolean People's Party (SVP) | 2 | |||
| Trentino Tyrolean Autonomist Party (PATT) | 1 | |||
| Union for Trentino (UPT) | 1 | |||
| The Megaphone - List of Rosario Crocetta (IM-LC) | 1 | |||
| Total | 123 | |||
| Silvio Berlusconi: Center-right coalition |
The People of Freedom (PdL) | 98 | ||
| Lega Nord (LN) | 18 | |||
| Great South (GS) | 1 | |||
| Total | 117 | |||
| Beppe Grillo: Five Star Movement (M5S) | 54 | |||
| Mario Monti: With Monti for Italy | 19 | |||
| Associative Movement Italians Abroad (MAIE) | 1 | |||
| Aosta Valley List (VdA) | Union Valdôtaine (UV) | 1 | ||
| Total | 315 | |||
| Popular vote (S) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Italy. Common Good | 31.6% | |||
| Centre-right coalition | 30.7% | |||
| 5 Star Movement | 23.8% | |||
| With Monti for Italy | 9.1% | |||
| Others | 5.4% | |||
| Distribution of the 315 parliamentary seats (S) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Italy. Common Good | 39.1% | |||
| Centre-right coalition | 37.1% | |||
| 5 Star Movement | 17.1% | |||
| With Monti for Italy | 6.0% | |||
| Others | 0.6% | |||
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