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
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)
   
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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