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Greece 2009 parliamentary election

Final results from ParlGov, read : PASOK won 160 of 300 seats with 43.9% of the vote; 70.9% of registered voters cast a ballot, down 3.2 points on 2007.

Result

Seats and votes by party

PartySeats± seats%± pointsVotes
PASOK160+5843.9+5.83,012,542
New Democracy91−6133.5−8.42,295,719
Communist Party of Greece21−17.5−0.6517,249
Popular Orthodox Rally15+55.6+1.8386,205
Syrizawith Synaspismos13−14.6−0.4315,665
Ecologist Greens002.5+1.5173,589

± is the change against the Greece 2007 parliamentary election, party by party.

Votes by party
  • PASOK 3,012,542
  • New Democracy 2,295,719
  • Communist Party of Greece 517,249
  • Popular Orthodox Rally 386,205
  • Syriza 315,665
  • Ecologist Greens 173,589

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.

ParlGov counts an alliance's votes and seats under its first party: such a row names the allies it counts.

Share of the vote

Turnout

70.9% of the 9,929,065 registered voters cast a ballot (7,044,606 ballots), down 3.2 points on 2007. 6,858,421 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

  • PASOK43.9% of votes53.3% of seats
  • New Democracy33.5% of votes30.3% of seats
  • Communist Party of Greece7.5% of votes7.0% of seats
  • Popular Orthodox Rally5.6% of votes5.0% of seats
  • Syriza4.6% of votes4.3% of seats
  • Ecologist Greens2.5% of votes0.0% of seats
Each party's share of the vote (outlined) and of the seats (filled)

The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 7.3 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 3.2 by votes and 2.6 by seats; PASOK led New Democracy by 10.4 points of the vote. How these are computed.

Sources and licence

Sources and licence

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