Greek legislative election, 1952
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The Greek legislative election of 16 November 1952 resulted in victory for General Alexander Papagos and the party he had founded the previous year, the Greek Rally party.
Papagos won by unifying most of the conservative forces under his leadership, and taking advantage of a weakened centre.
The electorate of Konstantinos Tsaldaris' People's Party, the leading conservative party in the 1950 election, shrunk to only 1%.
Summary of the 16 November 1952 Greek Parliament election results | Votes | Seats | |||||||||||
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No. | % | +− % | No. | +− | |||||||||
Greek Rally | Alexander Papagos | 49,22 | 247 | ||||||||||
National Progressive Union of the Centre Liberal Party Socialist Party-Democratic Popular Union |
Georgios Papandreou Sophoklis Venizelos Alexandros Svolos |
34,22 | 51 | ||||||||||
United Democratic Left | Ioannis Passalidis | 9,55 | - | ||||||||||
People's Party | Konstantinos Tsaldaris | 1,05 | - | ||||||||||
Rally of Farmers and Workers | 0,66 | - | |||||||||||
Party of Farmers | 0,04 | - | |||||||||||
Lists of independents | 3,57 | 2 | |||||||||||
Others | 1,69 | - | |||||||||||
Total number of seats | 300 | ||||||||||||
Population | 7.395.219 | ||||||||||||
Subscribed voters | 2.123.150 | ||||||||||||
Total number of votes | 1.600.172 | (21,61% of the population 75,36% of the subscribed voters) |
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Abstention | 522.978 | 24,63% | |||||||||||
Valid votes | 1.591.807 | ||||||||||||
Invalid votes | 8.365 | 0,52% | |||||||||||
Constituencies | 99 | ||||||||||||
Sources: Richard Clogg, A Concise History of Greece, Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1992, p. 234. Antonis Pantelis, Stefanos Koutsoumpinas, Triantafyllos Gerozisis: Texts of Constitutional History, Volume II, pages 830-831 |
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