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 | ||||||
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| No. | % | +− % | No. | +− | ||||
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Panhellenic Socialist Movement | Kostas Simitis | 2,813,245 | 41.49 | -5.2 | 162 | −8 | |
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New Democracy | Miltiadis Evert | 2,584,765 | 38.12 | -1.2 | 108 | -3 | |
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Communist Party of Greece | Aleka Papariga | 380,167 | 5.61 | +1.11 | 11 | +2 | |
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Coalition of the Left | Nikos Konstantopoulos | 347,051 | 5.12 | 2.18 | 10 | +10 | |
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Democratic Social Movement | Dimitris Tsovolas | 300,617 | 4.43 | (-) | 9 | (-) | |
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Political Spring | Antonis Samaras | 199,463 | 2.94 | (-) | (-) | (-) | |
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Union of Centrists | Vassilis Leventis | 48,677 | 0.72 | 0 | +0 | ||
| Union of Ecologists | 19,934 | 0.29 | 0 | +0 | ||||
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Party of Greek Hunters | 17,419 | 0.26 | |||||
| National Political Union | 16,501 | 0.24 | ||||||
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Hellenism Party | Sotiris Sofianopoulos | 12,205 | 0.18 | ||||
| Struggling Left | 10,443 | 0.15 | - | 0 | - | |||
| Ecologists Alternative | 5,715 | 0.08 | - | 0 | ||||
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Hrisi Avgi | 4,487 | 0.07 | - | 0 | - | ||
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Ecologists Greece | Konstantinos Papanikolas | 4,113 | 0.06 | - | 0 | - | |
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Marxist-Leninist Communist Party of Greece | 4,016 | 0.06 | - | 0 | - | ||
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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 | - | |||
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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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