title: Electoral firsts in Italy
text: # Electoral firsts in Italy
  
  This article lists notable electoral firsts in Italy.
  
  ## General
  
  * First general election with universal suffrage: 1913 (only males), 1946 (both sex);
  * First organized political party in the Italian Parliament: Partito Socialista Italiano, 1895;
  
  ## Women
  
  ### First female Prime Minister of Italy
  
  * Giorgia Meloni in 2022
  
  ### First female President of the Italian Chamber of Deputies
  
  * Nilde Iotti in 1979
  
  ### First female President of the Italian Senate
  
  * Elisabetta Casellati in 2018
  
  ### First female Minister of Foreign Affairs
  
  * Emma Bonino in 2013
  
  ### First female Minister of the Interior
  
  * Rosa Russo Iervolino in 1998
  
  ### First female Minister of Justice
  
  * Paola Severino in 2011
  
  ### First female Minister of Defence
  
  * Roberta Pinotti in 2014
  
  ### First female Minister of Economic Development
  
  * Federica Guidi in 2014
  
  ### First female Minister of Agriculture
  
  * Adriana Poli Bortone in 1994
  
  ### First female Minister of the Environment
  
  * Stefania Prestigiacomo in 2008
  
  ### First female Minister of Infrastructure and Transport
  
  * Paola De Micheli in 2019
  
  ### First female Minister of Labour and Social Policies
  
  * Tina Anselmi in 1976 (also first female Minister in general)
  
  ### First female Minister of Public Education
  
  * Franca Falcucci in 1982
  
  ### First female Minister of Culture
  
  * Vincenza Bono in 1988
  
  ### First female Minister of Health
  
  * Tina Anselmi in 1978
  
  ### First female constable ("ufficiale giudiziario")
  
  * Maria Luisa Strina, 1964
  
  ## Black Italians
  
  * Jean-Léonard Touadi, first black deputy in 2008
  * Toni Iwobi, first black senator in 2018
  * Cécile Kyenge, first black Minister in 2013
  
  ## LGBT people
  
  * Vladimir Luxuria, first transgender deputy in 2006
  