Tags: Election.
General elections were held in Italy on 27 January 1861 with a second round of voting on 3 February. The newly elected Parliament first convened in Turin on 4 March 1861 where it declared the unification of the country as the Kingdom of Italy. The election was carried out according to the 1848 electoral law of the Kingdom of Sardinia in which only literate men over the age of 25 and paying a certain level of taxation were allowed to vote.
