Popular Support
The party had roughly 10-15% support across Italy, having its stongholds in Central and Southern Italy (Lazio 18.6%, Umbria 15.2%, Marche 14.3%, Abruzzo 14.3%, Puglia 13.2%, Sardinia 12.9%, Tuscany 12.6% and Campania 12.6% in the last general election), scoring badly in Lombardy (10.2%) and Sicily (10.9%), while competing in the North-East (Friuli-Venezia Giulia 15.5% and Veneto 11.3%).
The party had a good showing in the first general election to which it took part (13.5% in 1994) and reached 15.7% in 1996, when Fini tried for the first time to replace Silvio Berlusconi as leader of the centre-right. From that moment the party suffered an electoral decline, but remained the third force of Italian politics.
In the 2006 general election, the final election to which the party participated with its own list, AN won 12.3% of the vote, securing 71 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and 41 in the Senate. In the 2008 general election the party got 90 deputies and 48 senators elected.
The electoral results of National Alliance in the 10 most populated Regions of Italy are shown in the table below.
| 1994 general | 1995 regional | 1996 general | 1999 European | 2000 regional | 2001 general | 2004 European | 2005 regional | 2006 general | |
| Piedmont | 8.3 | 11.2 | 12.1 | 7.5 | 11.9 | 9.2 | 8.8 | 9.5 | 11.8 |
| Lombardy | 5.8 | 10.0 | 9.0 | 6.0 | 9.7 | 8.6 | 7.2 | 8.7 | 10.2 |
| Veneto | 7.7 | 10.7 | 11.7 | 8.3 | 9.8 | 8.5 | 9.0 | 8.1 | 11.3 |
| Emilia-Romagna | 9.0 | 10.3 | 11.5 | 8.6 | 11.4 | 9.7 | 8.4 | 8.9 | 10.2 |
| Tuscany | 10.9 | 13.1 | 15.8 | 10.9 | 14.9 | 13.0 | 10.9 | 10.9 | 12.6 |
| Lazio | 25.3 | 24.5 | 28.9 | 20.3 | 23.1 | 20.4 | 18.4 | 23.9 | 18.6 |
| Campania | 20.3 | 18.3 | 18.7 | 10.7 | 11.2 | 13.1 | 13.2 | 10.6 | 12.6 |
| Apulia | 27.5 | 20.4 | 17.9 | 12.7 | 15.5 | 15.3 | 16.0 | 12.1 | 13.2 |
| Calabria | 17.2 | 16.3 | 23.4 | 10.2 | 10.4 | 15.2 | 15.5 | 9.9 | 11.0 |
| Sicily | 14.0 | 14.1 | 16.4 | 12.1 | 11.3 | 10.7 | 14.5 | 10.6 | 10.9 |
| ITALY | 13.5 | - | 15.7 | 10.3 | - | 12.0 | 11.3 | - | 12.3 |
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