1952 Greek legislative election

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1952 Greek legislative election
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  1951 16 November 1952 1956  

All 300 seats in the Hellenic Parliament
151 seats needed for a majority
 First partySecond party
  Papagos alexandros.jpg PROKOPIOU-PLASTIRAS-9.jpg
Leader Alexandros Papagos Nikolaos Plastiras
Party Greek Rally EPEKKF
Last election36.53%, 114 seats42.53%, 131 seats
Seats won24751
Seat changeIncrease2.svg 133Decrease2.svg 80
Popular vote783,541544,834
Percentage49.22%34.23%
SwingIncrease2.svg12.69ppDecrease2.svg8.30pp

Prime Minister before election

Nikolaos Plastiras
EPEK-KF

Prime Minister after election

Alexandros Papagos
ES

Parliamentary elections were held in Greece on 16 November 1952. [1] They resulted in a victory for General Alexander Papagos and the party he had founded the previous year, the Greek Rally party. Papagos won by unifying most of the conservative forces under his leadership, and taking advantage of a weakened centre. The electorate of Konstantinos Tsaldaris' People's Party, the leading conservative party in the 1950 elections, shrank to only 1%.

Results

PartyVotes%Seats+/–
Greek Rally 783,54149.22247+133
National Progressive Center UnionLiberal Party 544,83434.2351–80
United Democratic Left 152,0119.550–10
People's Party 16,7671.050–2
Agricultural and Labour Party 10,4310.660–1
List of Independents 56,6793.562+2
Agricultural Party6910.040New
Independents26,8531.6900
Total1,591,807100.00300+42
Valid votes1,591,80799.48
Invalid/blank votes8,3650.52
Total votes1,600,172100.00
Registered voters/turnout2,123,15075.37
Source: Nohlen & Stöver

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References

  1. Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p830 ISBN   978-3-8329-5609-7