Greece May 2012 parliamentary election
Final results from ParlGov, read : New Democracy won 108 of 300 seats with 18.9% of the vote; 65.1% of registered voters cast a ballot, down 5.8 points on 2009.
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Result
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | ± seats | % | ± points | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| New Democracy | 108 | +17 | 18.9 | −14.6 | 1,192,103 |
| Syrizawith Synaspismos | 52 | +39 | 16.8 | +12.2 | 1,061,928 |
| PASOK | 41 | −119 | 13.2 | −30.7 | 833,452 |
| Independent Greeks | 33 | 10.6 | 671,324 | ||
| Communist Party of Greece | 26 | +5 | 8.5 | +0.9 | 536,105 |
| Golden Dawn | 21 | 7.0 | 440,966 | ||
| Democratic Left | 19 | 6.1 | 386,394 | ||
| Ecologist Greens | 0 | 0 | 2.9 | +0.4 | 185,485 |
| Popular Orthodox Rally | 0 | −15 | 2.9 | −2.7 | 182,925 |
| Democratic Alliance | 0 | 2.5 | 161,550 | ||
| Creation | 0 | 2.1 | 135,960 | ||
| Drassi | 0 | 1.8 | 114,066 | ||
| Antarsya | 0 | 1.2 | 75,416 |
± is the change against the Greece 2009 parliamentary election, party by party.
Votes by party
- New Democracy 1,192,103
- Syriza 1,061,928
- PASOK 833,452
- Independent Greeks 671,324
- Communist Party of Greece 536,105
- Golden Dawn 440,966
- Democratic Left 386,394
- Ecologist Greens 185,485
- Popular Orthodox Rally 182,925
- Democratic Alliance 161,550
- Creation 135,960
- Drassi 114,066
- Antarsya 75,416
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
65.1% of the 9,945,859 registered voters cast a ballot (6,476,818 ballots), down 5.8 points on 2009. 6,324,136 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
- New Democracy18.9% of votes36.0% of seats
- Syriza16.8% of votes17.3% of seats
- PASOK13.2% of votes13.7% of seats
- Independent Greeks10.6% of votes11.0% of seats
- Communist Party of Greece8.5% of votes8.7% of seats
- Golden Dawn7.0% of votes7.0% of seats
- Democratic Left6.1% of votes6.3% of seats
- Ecologist Greens2.9% of votes0.0% of seats
- Popular Orthodox Rally2.9% of votes0.0% of seats
- Democratic Alliance2.5% of votes0.0% of seats
- Creation2.1% of votes0.0% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 12.8 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 9.0 by votes and 4.8 by seats; New Democracy led Syriza by 2.1 points of the vote. How these are computed.
Sources and licence
Sources and licence
- ParlGov 2024 Release (Döring and Manow), Harvard Dataverse (source). Licence: CC0 1.0 Universal
- Wikidata, party colours (P465) (source). Licence: CC0 1.0 Universal
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