en Socialist Unity (Italy)

Socialist Unity Unità Socialista

Leader	Giuseppe Saragat
Founded	1948
Dissolved	1949
Split from	Italian Socialist Party
Merged into	Italian Democratic Socialist Party
Headquarters	Rome, Italy
Ideology	Social democracy
Political position	Centre-left
International affiliation	Socialist International
Politics of Italy Political parties Elections

Socialist Unity (Italian: Unità Socialista, US) was a social-democratic political alliance in Italy which participated in the key 1948 general election, which decided the post-war direction of Italy.

Socialist Unity was formed by the Italian Socialist Workers' Party (Partito Socialista dei Lavoratori Italiani), of Giuseppe Saragat and the Union of Socialists (Unione dei Socialisti) of former Italian Socialist Party leader Ivan Matteo Lombardo. The party's anti-communist ideology precluded any collaboration with the Italian Communist Party-led Popular Democratic Front in the 1948 election.

Socialist Unity reached 7.1% of the vote for the Italian Chamber of Deputies, gaining 33 seats.^[1] In the election for the Italian Senate, where it ran together with the Italian Republican Party, Socialist Unity won 8 seats.

In the following years, the links between the members of Socialist Unity became closer and the Italian Democratic Socialist Party (PSDI) was founded.

Election results

Election year	Votes	%	Seats	+/−	Leader
Chamber of Deputies
1948	1,858,116 (3rd)	7.1	33 / 574	–	Giuseppe Saragat

Election year	Votes	%	Seats	+/−	Leader
Senate of the Republic
1948	943,219 (4th)	4.1	10 / 237	–	Giuseppe Saragat

References

^ John Foot (2014). Modern Italy. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 235. ISBN 978-1-137-04192-0.

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