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Greece 2000 parliamentary election

Final results from ParlGov, read : PASOK won 158 of 300 seats with 43.8% of the vote; 75.0% of registered voters cast a ballot, down 1.4 points on 1996.

Result

Seats and votes by party

PartySeats± seats%± pointsVotes
PASOK158−443.8+2.33,007,596
New Democracy125+1742.7+4.62,935,196
Communist Party of Greece1105.5−0.1379,454
Synaspismos6−43.2−1.9219,880
Democratic Social Movement0−92.7−1.7184,598

± is the change against the Greece 1996 parliamentary election, party by party.

Votes by party
  • PASOK 3,007,596
  • New Democracy 2,935,196
  • Communist Party of Greece 379,454
  • Synaspismos 219,880
  • Democratic Social Movement 184,598

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

75.0% of the 9,372,541 registered voters cast a ballot (7,026,527 ballots), down 1.4 points on 1996. 6,868,011 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

  • PASOK43.8% of votes52.7% of seats
  • New Democracy42.7% of votes41.7% of seats
  • Communist Party of Greece5.5% of votes3.7% of seats
  • Synaspismos3.2% of votes2.0% of seats
  • Democratic Social Movement2.7% of votes0.0% of seats
Each party's share of the vote (outlined) and of the seats (filled)

The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 6.8 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 2.6 by votes and 2.2 by seats; PASOK led New Democracy by 1.1 points of the vote. How these are computed.

Sources and licence

Sources and licence

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