| Election Name: | 1947 Italian presidential election |
| Country: | Italy |
| Type: | presidential |
| Vote Type: | electoral |
| Ongoing: | no |
| Previous Election: | 1946 Italian presidential election |
| Previous Year: | 1946 |
| Next Election: | 1948 Italian presidential election |
| Next Year: | 1948 |
| Votes For Election: | 556 voters |
| Needed Votes: | 337 |
| Nominee1: | Enrico De Nicola |
| Party1: | Italian Liberal Party |
| Electoral Vote1: | 405 |
| Percentage1: | 72.8% |
| Before Election: | Enrico De Nicola |
| Before Party: | PLI |
| After Election: | Enrico De Nicola |
| After Party: | PLI |
The 1947 Italian presidential election was undertaken to elect a provisional head of the Italian State.
Enrico De Nicola submitted his resignation on 25 June 1947, officially for health reasons, but also to regain legitimacy after the annual term of the Constituent Assembly of Italy, to which even his term was tied, had expired.[1]
Enrico De Nicola, however, was still re-elected as Provisional Head of State on 26 June 1947.[2] From 1 January 1948 he assumed the title of President of the Italian Republic in accordance with the first final provision of the Constitution of Italy.
| Candidate | 1st Round | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Enrico De Nicola | 405 | ||||||
| Pietro Nenni | 2 | ||||||
| Giuseppe Salvatore Bellusci | 2 | ||||||
| Cipriano Facchinetti | 2 | ||||||
| Other candidates | -- | ||||||
| Blank papers | 19 | ||||||
| Invalid papers | 1 | ||||||
| Voting | 431 | ||||||
| Total | 556 | ||||||
| Source: Parliament of Italy | |||||||