Greek legislative election, 1996

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Legislative elections were held in the Hellenic Republic on 22 September 1996. At stake were 300 seats in the Greek parliament, the Voule.

The ruling Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK) of Costas Simitis, was elected, defeating the liberal-conservative New Democracy party of Miltiadis Evert.

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Summary of the April 1996 Greek Parliament (Vouli ton Ellinon) election resultsedit			Votes			Seats
			No.	%	+− %	No.	+−
	Panhellenic Socialist Movement	Kostas Simitis	2,813,245	41.49	-5.2	162	−8
	New Democracy	Miltiadis Evert	2,584,765	38.12	-1.2	108	-3
	Communist Party of Greece	Aleka Papariga	380,167	5.61	+1.11	11	+2
	Coalition of the Left	Nikos Konstantopoulos	347,051	5.12	2.18	10	+10
	Democratic Social Movement	Dimitris Tsovolas	300,617	4.43	(-)	9	(-)
	Political Spring	Antonis Samaras	199,463	2.94	(-)	(-)	(-)
	Union of Centrists	Vassilis Leventis	48,677	0.72		0	+0
	Union of Ecologists		19,934	0.29		0	+0
	Party of Greek Hunters		17,419	0.26
	National Political Union		16,501	0.24
	Hellenism Party	Sotiris Sofianopoulos	12,205	0.18
	Struggling Left		10,443	0.15	-	0	-
	Ecologists Alternative		5,715	0.08	-	0
	Golden Dawn		4,487	0.07	-	0	-
	Ecologists Greece	Konstantinos Papanikolas	4,113	0.06	-	0	-
	Marxist-Leninist Communist Party of Greece		4,016	0.06	-	0	-
	Organization for the Reconstruction of the Communist Party of Greece		3,485	0.05	-	0	-
	Coalition of Pensioners-Workers-Farmers-Youth		2,470	0.04	-	0	-
	Militant Socialist Party of Greece		2,108	0.03	-	0	-
	Olympism Party		1,619	0.02	-	0	-
	Party of Working Greeks Κ.Ε.Ελλ.		247	0.00	-	0	-
	Free Democracy Eλ.Δημ.		65	0.00	-	0	-
	Working Class		31	0.00	-	0	-
	Others		1,162	0.02	-	0	-
No. of valid votes			6,780,049	100,00		300
Invalid votes			198,607
Total			6,978,656
Turnout			75.0%
Electorate			9,140,742
Source: Greek Interior Ministry website; Greekelections.com

Greek electoral law requires that the party winning a plurity of votes be awarded a majority of seats in the Voule. This involves some distortion of the proportionality of the result. Parties must poll 3% of the national vote to gain representation.

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