Greek Senate election, 1929

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The Senate was a new institution introduced with the Greek Constitution of 1927. In 1929 the first elections for the Senate took place and resulted in a triumph for the Liberal Party, Eleftherios Venizelos and the other venizelist parties.

Nevertheless, this result was expected after the victory of Eleftherios Venizelos in the legislative elections of 1928 and it was regarded as a public approval of Venizelos' policies.

Notably, this new institution, the Senate, did not last long.

Summary of 21 April 1929 Greek Senate election results			Votes			Seats
			No.	%	+− %	No.	+−
	Liberal Party Komma Fileleftheron	Eleftherios Venizelos		54.58		64
	Democratic Union Demokratiki Enosis	Alexandros Papanastasiou		6.58		4
	People's Party Laikon Komma	Panayotis Tsaldaris		19.05		10
	Independent Royalists	Charalampos Vozikis		4.28		-
	Conservative Democratic Party Syntiritiko Demokratikon Komma	Andreas Michalakopoulos		2.81		5
	Progressive Union Proodeftiki Enosis	Konstantinos Zavitsanos		1.19		2
	Progressive Party Proodeftikon Komma	Georgios Kafantaris		4.2		3
	Freethinkers' Party Komma Eleftherofronon	Ioannis Metaxas		2.73		2
	Agrarian Party Agrotikon Komma			1.66		2
	United Front (Communist Party of Greece Kommunistikon Komma Ellados)			1.7		-
	Independent Democrats			1.2		-
	Others			0.02		-
				100		92
Constituencies						37
No. of valid votes			825,655
Invalid votes			11,262
Total			836,917
Turnout			%
Electorate
Source: Texts of Constitutional History, Volume II (1924-1974), page 370

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