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Map of Greece Election Results 2015

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Greece Election Results Sept 2015 Party Vote Seats Votes  % ±pp Won +/− Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) 1.920.538 35.47 0.87 145 4 New Democracy (ND) 1.521.062 28.09 0.28 75 1…


Greek Election Results 2015

Greece Election Results Sept 2015

Party Vote Seats
Votes  % ±pp Won +/−
Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) 1.920.538 35.47 0.87 145 4
New Democracy (ND) 1.521.062 28.09 0.28 75 1
Popular Association-Golden Dawn (ΧΑ) 378.682 6.99 0.71 18 1
Democratic Coalition (PASOK-DIMAR)[a] 340.089 6.28 1.12 17 4
Communist Party of Greece (KKE) 300.403 5.55 0.08 15 ±0
The River (Potami) 221.324 4.09 1.96 11 6
Independent Greeks-National Patriotic Alliance (ANEL) 199.747 3.69 1.06 10 3
Union of Centrists (EK) 185.917 3.43 1.64 9 9
Popular Unity (LAE) 154.691 2.86 New 0 ±0
Greek Anticapitalist Left-Workers Revolutionary Party (ANTARSYA-EEK) 45.934 0.85 0.17 0 ±0
United Popular Front (EPAM) 41.503 0.77 New 0 ±0
Society (Koinonia) 35.515 0.66 New 0 ±0
Recreate Greece (DX) 28.846 0.53 New 0 ±0
Democrats-Society of Values-Pirate Party of Greece (D-KA-KPE) 15.225 0.28 New 0 ±0
Marxist–Leninist Communist Parties of Greece (KKE (m-l)/M-L KKE) 8.931 0.16 0.03 0 ±0
Patriotic Union-Greek Popular Gathering (ELAS) 6.252 0.12 0.04 0 ±0
Greek People’s Democratic Liberation (ELLADA) 4.422 0.08 0.05 0 ±0
Organisation of Communist Internationalists of Greece (OKDE) 2.367 0.04 0.01 0 ±0
Organisation for the Reconstruction of the KKE (OAKKE) 2.257 0.04 New 0 ±0
Independent candidates 1.139 0.02 ±0.00 0 ±0
Total 100 300

Parliamentary Election: 2015

On January 25, 2015 Greece voted to elect members to the 300 seat Hellenic Parliament.

Election snapshot:

Total seats: 300
Leading party: SYRIZIA ; Seats: 149
Coalition Partner: ANEL ; Seats: 13
Registered voters: 9,911,495
Votes cast: 6,330,786
Valid votes: 6,181,274
Invalid ballots: 114,703
Blank ballots: 34,809
Abstentions: 3,580,709

The 2015 election was unique on account of several reasons. 134 out of 300 Members of Parliament were voted in for the first time. This Parliament has 68 women Members of Parliament, the highest representation of women in parliament, till date. For the first time, Members were given the option to take a civil oath instead of a religious one and most decided to opt for the civil oath.

For the first time, the Left-wing party SYRIZIA emerged as the leading party with 149 seats. The constitution mandates a minimum of 151 seats for a party/coalition to form the government, therefore the Alexis Tsipras-led SYRIZIA reached out to Panos Kammenos-led ANEL in a coalition agreement to form the government. On January 26, 2015 Alexis Tsipras was sworn in as Prime Minister.

SYRIZIA’s remarkable performance comes in the backdrop of serious financial crisis being faced by Greece, with the strong discontent and opposition from the people to further austerity measures being implemented on pressure from the European Union (EU), International Monetary Fund (IMF) and European Central Bank (ECB).

People discontent can be gauged by the fact that the earlier leading party, the Antonis Samaras-led New Democracy (ND) was down to just 76 seats from 129, won in last elections held in 2012. Evangelos Venizelos-led PASOK, ND’s coalition partner, won only 13 seats from 33 won in 2012. However, Stavros Theodorakis-led To Potami, despite being a new party, managed to win 17 seats polling 6.05% votes.

Notable absentee from the Parliament was George Papandreou, former Prime Minister and former Chairman of PASOK. This was the first time since 1923 that a member of the Papandreou family was not represented in Parliament.

The number of Members of Parliament elected for the first time were 88 from SYRIZIA, New Democracy-14, Golden Dawn-5, To Potami-14, KKE-5, ANEL-6, PASOK-3.

Party-wise results in 2015

Party: SYRIZIA
Leader: Alexis Tsipras; representing Athens A
Seats won in 2015: 149
Seat won in 2012: 71
Popular vote: 2,246,064
Percentage polled: 36.34%
Party: New Democracy (ND)
Leader: Antonis Samaras; representing Messenia
Seats won in 2015: 76
Seat won in 2012: 129
Popular vote: 1,718,815
Percentage polled: 27.81%
Party: Golden Dawn (XA)
Leader: Nikolaos Michaloliakos ; representing Athens A
Seats won in 2015: 17
Seat won in 2012: 18
Popular vote: 388,447
Percentage polled: 6.28%
Party: The River (To Potami)
Leader: Stavros Theodorakis ; representing Chania
Seats won in 2015: 17
Seat won in 2012: Did not stand
Popular vote: 373,916
Percentage polled: 6.05%
Party: Communist Party of Greece (KKE)
Leader: Dimitris Koutsoumpas; representing Athens B
Seats won in 2015: 15
Seat won in 2012: 12
Popular vote: 338,138
Percentage polled: 5.47%
Party: Independent Greeks (ANEL)
Leader: Panos Kammenos ; representing Athens B
Seats won in 2015: 13
Seat won in 2012: 20
Popular vote: 293,406
Percentage polled: 4.8%
Party: Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK)
Leader: Evangelos Venizilos ; representing Thessaloniki A
Seats won in 2015: 13
Seat won in 2012: 33
Popular vote: 289,482
Percentage polled: 4.7%

Region-wise vote share between the two top parties; SYRIZIA & ND

The regions where SYRIZIA got a higher vote share over ND were:
Achaea (43.06%), Aetolia-Akarnania (36.53%), Arta (44.14%), Athens A (33.61%), Athens B (37.08%), Attica (37.08%), Boeotia (41.55%), Cephalonia (38.25%), Chalkidiki (33.51%), Chania (43.10%), Corfu (44.92%), Corinthia (36.77%), Cyclades (35.12%), Dodecanese (33.26%), Elis (37.93%), Euboea (40.51%), Evrytania (37.13%), Florina (36.31%), Imathia (33.94%), Ioannina (39.57%), Heraklion (47.85%), Karditsa (38.91%), Kavala (31.27%), Kozani (33.11%), Larissa (36.14%), Lasithi (43.50%), Lefkada (36.00), Lemnos (32.94%), Magnesia (40.28%), Naxos (35.12%), Phocis (34.77%), Phthiotis (35.71%), Piraeus A (34.40%), Piraeus B (42.07%), Preveza (37.94%), Rethymno (39.55%), Rhodope (48.45%), Samos (36.17%), Thessaloniki A (34.12%), Thessaloniki B (31.61%), Trikala (36.16%), Xanthi (45.40%), Zakynthos (42.99%).

The regions where ND got a higher vote share over SYRIZIA were:
Argolida (33.76%), Arkadia (36.13%), Chios (38.89%), Drama (34.51%), Evros (37.08%), Kastoria (38.78%), Laconia (35.79%), Messenia (37.96%), Pieria (34.08%), Serres (37.44%), Thesprotia (37.61%).

Source : 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_legislative_election,_2015
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_members_of_the_Hellenic_Parliament,_2015–
http://www.economist.com/greekgraphs

Greek Election Results 2012

Description : Greece Election Results 2012 Map
S. No Political party Party Leader(s) Votes %of Votes Seats Seats gain/loss
1 New Democracy (ND) Antonis Samaras 1825497 29.66 129 21
2 Syriza Unionist Social Front (SYRIZA) Alexis Tsipras 1655022 26.89 71 19
3 Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK) Evangelos Venizelos 756024 12.28 33 -8
4 Independent Greeks (ANEL) Panos Kammenos 462406 7.51 20 -13
5 Golden Dawn (XA) Nikolaos Michaloliakos 426025 6.92 18 -3
6 Democratic Left (DIMAR) Fotis Kouvelis 384986 6.25 17 -2
7 Communist Party of Greece (KKE) Aleka Papariga 277227 4.5 12 -14
8 Recreate Greece – Action – Liberal Alliance (DX-DRASI-FS) T. Tzimeros / S. Manos / G. Vallianatos 98140 1.59 0
9 Popular Orthodox Rally (LAOS) Georgios Karatzaferis 97099 1.58 0
10 Ecologist Greens (OP) Six-member committee 54408 0.88 0
11 I Don’t Pay Movement Vasilis Papadopoulos 23699 0.39 0
12 Anticapitalist Left Cooperation for the Overthrow (ANTARSYA) 21-member committee 20416 0.33 0
13 Society: Political Party of the Successors of Kapodistria Michail Iliadis 17770 0.29 0
14 Union of Centrists (EK) Vassilis Leventis 17145 0.28 0
15 Pirate Party of Greece (KPE) I. Panagopoulos 14170 0.23 0
16 Panathinaikos Movement (PANKI) Yiorgos Betsikas 12459 0.2 0
17 Communist (Marxist-Leninist) / Marxist-Leninist Communist Four-member committee 7592 0.12 0
18 National Hope (EE) Yiorgios Papadopoulos 4290 0.07 0
19 Liberal Party (LIBERTAS) Manolis Kaligiannis 623 0.01 0
20 Independent candidates NA 385 0 0
21 National Resistance Movement (KEAN) Ippokratis Savvouras 81 0 0
22 Panagrarian Labour Movement of Greece (PAEKE) Miltiadis Tzalazidis 0 0 0
S. No 2012 Election Result Summary
1 Valid votes 6155464 99.01
2 Invalid votes 35961 0.58
3 Blank votes 25373 0.41
4 Totals 6216798 100
5 Total electorate and voter turnout 9947876 62.49

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