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Lombardy elected its first delegation to the Italian Senate on April 18 1948. This election was a part of national Italian general election of 1948 even if according to the newly established Italian Constitution every senatorial challenge in each Region is a single and independent race.The election was won by the centrist Christian Democracy as it happened at national level. Pavia and Mantua were the sole provinces to oppose this result giving a plurality to the Social-Communist alliance.