Italy vote 'too close to call'

Elections pitting Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi’s conservative coalition against centre-left forces led by Romano Prodi were too close to call tonight after projections showed Berlusconi’s forces leading in the Senate but running neck-and-neck in the lower Chamber of Deputies.

Exit polls and initial projections had given the edge to Prodi’s coalition, but later projections put Berlusconi in the lead.