TABLE-Final polls before Italian election
ROME, Feb 8 (Reuters) - The final opinion polls published before a two-week blackout ahead of Italy's election on Feb. 24-25 show the centre-left set to win a majority in the lower house but in need of allies to hold the Senate. Pier Luigi Bersani's centre-left coalition, made up of his Democratic Party (PD) and Left, Ecology and Freedom (SEL), is an average of 5.7 points ahead of the centre-right coalition led by Silvio Berlusconi and his People of Freedom party (PDL). The party with the biggest vote is automatically awarded a majority in Italy's lower house, but seats in the Senate, which has equal powers in passing laws, are decided by separate regional votes. The polls show Bersani falling short of a Senate majority, a result which would likely push him into an alliance with the centrists led by outgoing premier Mario Monti. Here are six of the final polls to be published and a calculated average of their results:
SWG D&Pi ISPO Ipsos Tecne E.dia Mean
PD 29.5 29.9 32.2 30.6 28.9 29.8 SEL 3.6 3.7 3.5 3.9 3.7 3.7 Centre-left 0.7 0.5 1.5 0.7 0.5 1.1
other
Bersani 33.8 34.1 37.2 35.2 33.1 34.6 34.7
total
Civic 9 11.5 9.3 10.8 8.5 7.5
Choice
UDC 2.7 3.5 3 3.2 3.3 3.5 Centre 1.7 1 0.6 0.8 0.8 0.7
other
Monti total 13.4 16 12.9 14.8 12.6 11.7 13.6 PDL 19.5 20.4 22 20.3 20.7 22 Northern 5.2* 5 5.4 4.4 5.5 5.2
League
Centre-righ 3.1 3.2 2.3 2.6 3.2 4.4
t other
Berlusconi 27.8 28.6 29.7 28.3 29.4 31.7 29
total
5-Star 18.8 16 14.3 15.9 16.3 14.6 16
Movement
Civil 4.1 4 4.2 3.7 5.2 3.7 4.1
Revolution
Others 2.1 1.3 1.7 2.2 3.4 4.8 * SWG taken Feb 8 * Demos & Pi for La Repubblica taken Feb 4-6 * ISPO/3G Deal and Research S.r.l for Corriere della Sera
taken 4-5 Feb
* Ipsos taken Feb 6
* Tecne taken Feb 5
* Euromedia taken Feb 3
* Includes Lista Tremonti
(Reporting by Naomi O'Leary; Editing by Will Waterman)