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Greece 1996 parliamentary election

Final results from ParlGov, read : PASOK won 162 of 300 seats with 41.5% of the vote; 76.3% of registered voters cast a ballot, down 2.9 points on 1993.

Result

Seats and votes by party

PartySeats± seats%± pointsVotes
PASOK162−841.5−5.62,813,245
New Democracy108−338.1−1.22,584,765
Communist Party of Greece11+25.6+1.1380,167
Synaspismos10+105.1+2.2347,051
Democratic Social Movement94.4300,671
Political Spring0−102.9−2.0199,463

± is the change against the Greece 1993 parliamentary election, party by party.

Votes by party
  • PASOK 2,813,245
  • New Democracy 2,584,765
  • Communist Party of Greece 380,167
  • Synaspismos 347,051
  • Democratic Social Movement 300,671
  • Political Spring 199,463

ParlGov lists parties with at least 1 percent of the vote or 2 seats, so the rows do not add up to the valid votes. How we read it.

Share of the vote

Turnout

76.3% of the 9,140,742 registered voters cast a ballot (6,978,656 ballots), down 2.9 points on 1993. 6,780,049 of them were valid votes. The lowest turnout of this kind in our data, which begins in 1974. How turnout is counted.

Votes and seats

  • PASOK41.5% of votes54.0% of seats
  • New Democracy38.1% of votes36.0% of seats
  • Communist Party of Greece5.6% of votes3.7% of seats
  • Synaspismos5.1% of votes3.3% of seats
  • Democratic Social Movement4.4% of votes3.0% of seats
  • Political Spring2.9% of votes0.0% of seats
Each party's share of the vote (outlined) and of the seats (filled)

The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 9.5 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 3.1 by votes and 2.4 by seats; PASOK led New Democracy by 3.4 points of the vote. How these are computed.

Sources and licence

Sources and licence

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