Plaka: Greece Today: Elections

17 June 2012: Elections

Second run at elections produce a three-party coalition government.

Government:

Prime Minister Antonis Samaras (ND)

Parties in coalition: ND, PASOK, Ind. Greeks.

Election results:

29.7% 129 New Democracy (ND) Antonis Samaras

26.9% 71 Syriza Unionist Social Front (SYRIZA) Alexis Tsipras

12.3% 33 Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK) Evangelos Venizelos

7.5% 20 Independent Greeks (ANEL) Panos Kammenos

6.9% 18 Golden Dawn (AX) Nikolaos Michaloliakos

21 May 2012 Bakoyannis and Samaras patch up differences; Democratic Alliance will run under ND in June elections.

Feb 2012 Panos Kammenous, expelled from ND for opposing the EU's program; sets up Independent Greeks.

6 May 2012: Elections

Elections produce no government; new elections scheduled for a month later.

Election results:

18.9% 108 New Democracy (ND) Antonis Samaras

16.8% 52 Syriza Unionist Social Front (SYRIZA) Alexis Tsipras

13.2% 41 Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK) Evangelos Venizelos

10.6% 33 Independent Greeks (ANEL) Panos Kammenos

8.5% 26 Communist Party of Greece (KKE) Aleka Papariga

2010 Dora Bakoyannis expelled from ND for voting against party wishes; sets up Democratic Alliance.

November 11, 2011		Lucas Papademos becomes PM
		Result of a deal following financial crisis.
October 4, 2009		George Papandreau becomes PM
	43.92%	160	PASOK (George Papandreau)	Son and grandson of PM's
	33.48%	91	New Democracy (Kostas Karamanlis)
	7.54%	21	Communist (Aleka Papariga)
	5.63%	15	Popular Orthodox Rally (Georgios Karatzaferis)	Right-wing, anti-immigrant party
	4.60%	13	Coalition of the Radical Left (Alexis Tsipras)
	2.53%	none	Ecologist Greens (six-member committee)
				Total votes: 7,044,479; turnout 70.9%

September 16, 2007		Karamanlis retained in power
	41.83%	152	New Democracy (Kostas Karamanlis)	Son and grandson of PM's
	38.1%	102	PASOK (George Papandreau)
	8.15%	22	Communist (Aleka Papariga)
	5.04%	14	Coalition of the Radical Left (Alexis Tsipras)
	3.8%	10	Popular Orthodox Rally (Georgios Karatzaferis)	Right-wing, anti-immigrant party
	1.05%	none	Ecologist Greens (Ioanna Kontouli, and others)
				Total votes: 7,356,294; turnout 74.1%

March 7, 2004		Costas Karamanlis becomes youngest Prime Minister at 48
	45.4%	165	New Democracy
	40.6%	117	PASOK (George Papandreau)
	5.9%	12	Communist Party
	3.3%	6	Synaspismos Left Coalition
	No seats	None	LAOS; Democratic Social Movement

April 2000		Costis Simitis returned to power.
	43.8%	158	PASOK
	42.7%	125	New Democracy
	5.5%	11	Communist Party
	3.2%	6	Coalition Party
	4.8%	0	Others

September 1996
	41.5% 162 seats		PASOK
	38.1% 108		New Democracy
	5.6% 11 seats		Communist Party
	5.1% 10 seats		Coalition Party
	4.5% 9 seats		Democratic Social Movement
	5.2% no seats		Others

October 10, 1993		Andreas Papandeou leads PASOK back into power
	46.9%	171	PASOK	Districts winning over 55%: Achaia, Dodecanese, Iraklio, Lasithi
	39.3%	110	New Democracy	Districts winning over 50%: Kastoria, Lakonia
	4.9%	10	Political Spring	Districs winning over 10%: Messinia
	4.5%	9	KKE (Comunist Party)	Districts winning over10%: Lesvos, Samos
	2.9%	0	Coalition of the Left
	1.5%	0	Others

April 8, 1990		A technocrat PM
	46.9%	150	New Democracy (Constantine Mitsotakis)
	38.6%	123	PASOK (Andreas Papandreau)
	10.3%	19	Coalition of the Left and Progress (Charilaos Florakis)	(Synaspismos)
	1.0%	4	Joint PASOK - Left Coalition
	0.8%	1	Alternative Ecologists
	0.7%	2	Independent Muslim List
	0.7%	1	Democratic Renewal (Konstantinos Stefanopoulos)
	0.3%	none	Other Green Lists
				Total votes: 6,698,591; turnout 83.2%

November 5, 1989
	46.2%	148	New Democracy (Constantine Mitsotakis)
	40.7%	128	PASOK (Andreas Papandreau)
	11.0%	21	Coalition of the Left and Progress (Charilaos Florakis)	(Synaspismos)
	0.6%	1	Alternative Ecologists
	0.5%	1	Independent Muslim List
	1.2%	1	Others
				Total votes: 6,799,485; turnout 84.4%