Pavia and Mantua were the sole provinces to oppose this result, giving a plurality to the Social-Communist alliance.

Alcide De Gasperi's Christian Democracy had obtained very good results during quite all municipal elections in Lombardy in 1946.

However, their Soviet-aligned opponents looked at this region as one of their possible zones of success, considering the local strength of the Socialist Party before the Fascist era.

Even if the Front obtained some seats in the agricultural south, De Gasperi obtained an absolute majority at regional level, with some exceptional peaks in the alpine north: Lombardy became the region with the highest number of constituencies where the landslide clausola[1] was satisfied.

The electoral system introduced in 1948 for the newly elected Senate was a strange hybrid which established a form of proportional representation into FPTP-like constituencies.