The election was won by the centrist Christian Democracy, as it happened at national level.

Even if Amintore Fanfani's Christian Democracy weakened in this election, Lombardy remained a stronghold for the national leading party.

As it happened five years before, the Communists obtained some seats in the agricultural south, while the Socialists remarked their strength in the Milanese industrial neighbourhood.

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

A candidate needed a landslide victory of more than 65% of votes to obtain a direct mandate.