title: 1961 Sardinian regional election
text: # 1961 Sardinian regional election
  
  The Sardinian regional election of 1961 took place on 18 June 1961.
  
  Two more seats were added.
  
  After the election Efisio Corrias, the incumbent Christian Democratic President, formed a new government that included the Sardinian Action Party, a social-liberal regionalist party. In 1963 the government was enlarged to the Italian Democratic Socialist Party.
  
  ## Results
  
  seats :
  
  | | Christian Democracy | 320,756 | 46.4 | 37 |
  | - | - | - | - | - |
  | | Italian Communist Party | 131,622 | 19.0 | 14 |
  | | Italian Socialist Party | 66,523 | 9.6 | 7 |
  | | Sardinian Action Party–Italian Republican Party | 50,039 | 7.2 | 5 |
  | | Italian Social Movement | 42,145 | 6.1 | 4 |
  | | Italian Democratic Party of Monarchist Unity | 33,985 | 4.9 | 2 |
  | | Italian Liberal Party | 23,011 | 3.3 | 1 |
  | | Italian Democratic Socialist Party | 21,736 | 3.1 | 2 |
  | | Others | 2,490 | 0.4 | - |
  | Total | Total | 692,307 | 100.0 | 72 |
  
  Sources: Regional Council of Sardinia and Istituto Cattaneo
  
  