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The 2018 Italian general election was held on 4 March 2018 after the Italian Parliament was dissolved by President Sergio Mattarella on 28 December 2017. Voters were electing the 630 members of the Chamber of Deputies and the 315 elective members of the Senate of the Republic for the 18th legislature of the Italian Republic since 1948. The election took place concurrently with the Lombard and Lazio regional elections. The centre-right alliance, in which Matteo Salvini's League emerged as the main political force, won a plurality of seats in the Chamber of Deputies and in the Senate while the anti-establishment Five Star Movement led by Luigi Di Maio became the party with the largest number of votes and the centre-left coalition, led by former Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, came third. However, no political group or party won an outright majority, resulting in a hung parliament.

Det italienska parlamentet (italienska: Parlamento Italiano) består av två kammare, med 945 deputati, som väljs för en period på fem år. Underhuset, Camera dei Deputati (Deputeradekammaren) består av 630 ledamöter, medan överhuset, il Senato (Senaten) har 315 ledamöter, senatori. Regeringen är ansvarig för bägge kamrarna.