A snap
national general election was held in
Italy on March 27, 1994 to elect members of the
Chamber of Deputies and the
Senate.
Silvio Berlusconi's
centre-right alliance won a large majority in the Chamber, but just missed winning a majority in the Senate. The
Italian People's Party, the renamed
Christian Democrats, which had dominated Italian politics for almost half a century, was decimated. It took only 29 seats versus 206 for the DC two years earlier-easily the worst defeat a sitting government in Italy has ever suffered, and one of the worst ever suffered by a Western European governing party.