Greek legislative election, 2009

  • KKE: 21
  • SYRIZA: 13
  • PASOK: 160
  • ND: 91
  • LAOS: 15

The parliamentary elections in Greece in 2009 was held on October 4, 2009. She brought the hitherto opposition PASOK under Giorgos Papandreou, the absolute majority in parliament and led to the replacement of the ruling New Democracy since 2004 under the previous Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis.

Prehistory

September 2, 2009, Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis, that he had asked President Karolos Papoulias to the dissolution of parliament and early elections 4 October 2009 should take place. The next election was due in September 2011. Karamanlis was however advised by a number of scandals and threatening the country's debt under strong pressure.

Electoral system

It seats 300 were determined in Parliament for a term of four years. For the authorized parties was a three-percent electoral threshold. Was chosen according to a modified proportional representation: 260 seats were distributed according to the proportion of votes; the largest party received 40 additional seats.

Parties

To select came to 23 different parties.

The previous parliamentary parties:

Election result

In the parliamentary elections on October 4 won opposition leader Giorgos Papandreou, well ahead of the incumbent Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis. Karamanlis said even during the counting of votes in his resignation as party leader of the New Democracy party.

Were entitled to vote 9,929,065 citizens. Although there is an option for all citizens between 18 and 70 years in Greece, the turnout was 70.95 percent.

Distribution of seats

The socialist PASOK was around 44 percent ( compared to 38 % in the election of 2007) of the vote, thanks to the 40 -seat bonus for the strongest party an absolute majority of seats in the Vouli win ( 160 of 300 seats).

The conservative New Democracy lost over eight percentage points to around 33.5 per cent ( 2007: 41.8 % ) 91 seats. Of this she lost five seats by the cleavage of the Dimokratiki Symmachia in November 2010.

Also elected to parliament are the Communist Party of Greece with 7.5 percent (21 seats), the " Orthodox people meeting ( LAOS ) " with 5.6 percent (15 seats) and the Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA ) with 4.6 percent (13 seats).

The Greek Greens failed with around 2.5 per cent in the three- percent hurdle.

Panhellenic Socialist Movement New Democracy (Greece) Ecologist Greens George Papandreou List of political parties in Greece Conservatism Communism Aleka Papariga Alexis Tsipras Nationalism Georgios Karatzaferis Compulsory voting Greek legislative election, 2007 Democratic Alliance (Greece)
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