Lombardy renewed its delegation to the Italian Senate on April 21, 1996. This election was a part of national Italian general election of 1996 even if, according to the Italian Constitution, every senatorial challenge in each Region is a single and independent race.

The election was won by the centre-left coalition called The Olive Tree.

The intricate electoral system introduced in 1993, called Mattarella Law, provided 75% of the seats in the Senate as elected by first-past-the-post system, whereas the remaining 25% was assigned by a special proportional method that actually assigned the remaining seats to minority parties.

Coalition	votes	votes (%)	seats	Party	seats	change
The Olive Tree	1,928,868	34.2	19	Democratic Party of the Left	11	8
				Italian People's Party	4	1
				Federation of the Greens	2	2
				Italian Renewal	1	1
				Italian Republican Party	1	1
Pole for Freedoms	1,853,453	32.8	16	Forza Italia	10	1
				National Alliance	5	4
				Federalist Party	1	1
Northern League	1,376,124	24.4	11	Northern League	11	15
Alliance of Progressives	50,235	0.9	1	Communist Refoundation Party	1	1
Others	437,745	7.7	-	Others	-	-
Total coalitions	5,646,425	100.0	47	Total parties	47	=

Sources: Ministry of the Interior, Italian Senate

N°	Constituency	Winner	Alliance	Party	Votes %	Losers
1	Milan Central	Carlo Scognamiglio	Pole for Freedoms	Forza Italia	47.9%	G. Bianchini (Olive) 35.2% L. Rossi (League) 10.9%
2	Milan East	Saverio Vertone	Pole for Freedoms	Forza Italia	46.4%	Vera Squarcialupi (Olive) 36.2% G. Galimberti (League) 11.5%
3	Milan West	Riccardo De Corato	Pole for Freedoms	National Alliance	46.5%	Felice Besostri (Olive) 35.4% P. Arpesani (League) 11.7%
4	Milan South	Roberto Lasagna	Pole for Freedoms	Forza Italia	41.5%	Antonio Duva (Olive) 38.6% M. Bedoni (League) 13.1%
5	Milan North	Leopoldo Elia		Italian People's Party	43.6%	L. Strik (Pannella) 23.1% M. Frigerio (League) 16.4%
6	Sesto San Giovanni	Antonio Pizzinato		Democratic Party of the Left	42.7%	Sergio Travaglia (Pole) 38.1% C. Pedrazzini (League) 12.9%
7	Lodi	Gianni Piatti		Democratic Party of the Left	39.7%	Michele Bucci (Pole) 34.8% G. Finaguerra (League) 17.2%
8	Rozzano	Carlo Smuraglia		Democratic Party of the Left	40.8%	Antonino Caruso (Pole) 40.1% G. Lombardi (League) 12.7%
9	Abbiategrasso	Francesco Servello	Pole for Freedoms	National Alliance	34.4%	F. Bonetti (Olive) 33.0% G. Gadda (League) 25.5%
10	Rho	Fiorello Cortiana		Federation of the Greens	36.5%	F. Tofoni (Pole) 34.9% G. Carnovali (League) 23.6%
11	Bollate	Ornella Piloni		Democratic Party of the Left	38.1%	P. Balzano (Pole) 34.0% E. Busnelli (League) 21.5%
12	Cinisello Balsamo	Patrizia Toia		Italian People's Party	43.8%	Enrico Rizzi (Pole) 35.0% G. Tronconi (League) 15.2%
13	Seregno	Ettore Rotelli	Pole for Freedoms	Forza Italia	36.3%	M. Pulcini (Olive) 29.8% C. Monti (League) 27.6%
14	Monza	Alfredo Mantica	Pole for Freedoms	National Alliance	38.1%	Anna Maria Bernasconi (Olive) 37.0% E. Merlo (League) 19.3%
15	Melzo	Loris Maconi		Democratic Party of the Left	41.6%	M. Staglieno (Pole) 33.4% S. Motta (League) 19.4%
16	Cologno Monzese	Natale Ripamonti		Federation of the Greens	40.2%	Enrico Pianetta (Pole) 39.0% C. Marchini (League) 13.8%
17	Varese	Piero Pellicini	Pole for Freedoms	National Alliance	33.1%	M. Astuti (Olive) 29.9% Giuseppe Leoni (League) 29.7%
18	Gallarate	Luigi Peruzzotti	Northern League	Northern League	34.6%	G. Martinoli (Olive) 29.9% G. Margutti (Pole) 29.2%
19	Busto Arsizio	Antonio Tomassini	Pole for Freedoms	Forza Italia	32.8%	Francesco Speroni (League) 32.0% M. Maggioni (Olive) 29.2%
20	Como	Gianfranco Miglio	Pole for Freedoms	Federalist Party	35.2%	G. Peruzzo (Olive) 29.3% G. Ostinelli (League) 27.2%
21	Cantù	Elia Manara	Northern League	Northern League	32.3%	G. Manfredi (Pole) 31.3% P. Giovanni (Olive) 29.5%
22	Brescia	Alessandro Pardini		Democratic Party of the Left	38.9%	R. Conti (Pole) 30.6% G. Giudici (League) 24.7%
23	Lumezzane	Francesco Tabladini	Northern League	Northern League	41.8%	A. Gregorelli (Olive) 30.9% L. Becchetti (Pole) 25.4%
24	Desenzano del Garda	Giovanni Bruni		Italian Renewal	33.1%	Massimo Wilde (League) 31.0% I. Formentini (Pole) 28.4%
25	Chiari	Francesco Tirelli	Northern League	Northern League	32.9%	B. Mazzotti (Olive) 32.3% G.Gei (Pole) 27.8%
26	Suzzara	Piergiorgio Bergonzi	Alliance of Progressives	Communist Refoundation Party	34.3%	F. Marenghi (Pole) 30.5% I. Maffini (League) 24.7%
27	Mantua	Roberto Borroni		Democratic Party of the Left	43.9%	R. Freddi (Pole) 28.3% A. Cattaneo (League) 20.2%
28	Cremona	Angelo Rescaglio		Italian People's Party	38.7%	G. Galli (Pole) 31.9% B. Bruttomesso (League) 21.8%
29	Pavia	Tullio Montagna		Democratic Party of the Left	37.0%	G. Beccaria (Pole) 34.6% L. Verderio (League) 19.2%
30	Vigevano	Domenico Contestabile	Pole for Freedoms	Forza Italia	37.8%	C. Broli (Olive) 34.6% G. Desigis (League) 19.3%
31	Bergamo	Giovanni Zilio		Italian People's Party	32.3%	Sergio Rossi (League) 31.9% L. Caputo (Pole) 29.1%
32	Albino	Vito Gnutti	Northern League	Northern League	44.8%	G. Giupponi (Olive) 26.7% G. Bettera (Pole) 22.3%
33	Treviglio	Massimo Dolazza	Northern League	Northern League	35.5%	L. Gelpi (Olive) 29.5% M. Signorelli (Pole) 27.7%
34	Sondrio	Fiorello Provera	Northern League	Northern League	36.8%	M. Gallo (Pole) 28.6% R. Pedrini (Olive) 27.0%
35	Lecco	Roberto Castelli	Northern League	Northern League	33.3%	V. Addis (Olive) 32.9% P. Fiocchi (Pole) 27.1%

• Pole for Freedoms

1. Antonino Caruso (National Alliance, 40.1%)
2. Enrico Pianetta (Forza Italia, 39.0%)
3. Sergio Travaglia (Forza Italia, 38.1%)
4. Enrico Rizzi (Forza Italia, 35.0%)
5. Michele Bucci (Forza Italia, 34.8%)

• The Olive Tree

1. Antonio Duva (Italian Republican Party, 38.6%)
2. Anna Maria Bernasconi (Democratic Party of the Left, 37.0%)
3. Vera Squarcialupi (Democratic Party of the Left, 36.2%)
4. Felice Besostri (Democratic Party of the Left, 35.4%)

• Lega Nord

1. Francesco Speroni (Lega Nord, 32.0%)^[2]
2. Sergio Rossi (Lega Nord, 31.9%)
3. Massimo Wilde (Lega Nord, 31.0%)