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Greece 1999 European Parliament election

Final results from ParlGov, read : New Democracy won 9 of 25 seats with 36.0% of the vote; 70.3% of registered voters cast a ballot, down 1.0 points on 1994.

European Parliament result

Seats and votes by party

PartySeats± seats%± pointsVotes
New Democracy9036.0+3.32,314,371
PASOK9−132.9−4.72,115,844
Communist Party of Greece3+18.7+2.4557,365
Democratic Social Movement26.8440,191
Synaspismos205.2−1.1331,928
Political Spring0−22.3−6.3146,512
The Liberals01.6103,962
Party of Greek Hunters-Fishermen01.064,194

± is the change against the Greece 1994 European Parliament election, party by party.

Votes by party
  • New Democracy 2,314,371
  • PASOK 2,115,844
  • Communist Party of Greece 557,365
  • Democratic Social Movement 440,191
  • Synaspismos 331,928
  • Political Spring 146,512
  • The Liberals 103,962
  • Party of Greek Hunters-Fishermen 64,194

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

70.3% of the 9,555,326 registered voters cast a ballot (6,712,684 ballots), down 1.0 points on 1994. 6,428,696 of them were valid votes. The lowest turnout of this kind in our data, which begins in 1981. How turnout is counted.

Votes and seats

  • New Democracy36.0% of votes36.0% of seats
  • PASOK32.9% of votes36.0% of seats
  • Communist Party of Greece8.7% of votes12.0% of seats
  • Democratic Social Movement6.8% of votes8.0% of seats
  • Synaspismos5.2% of votes8.0% of seats
  • Political Spring2.3% of votes0.0% of seats
Each party's share of the vote (outlined) and of the seats (filled)

The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 4.4 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 3.9 by votes and 3.5 by seats; New Democracy led PASOK by 3.1 points of the vote. How these are computed.

Sources and licence

Sources and licence

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