1994 European Parliament election in Greece

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1994 European Parliament election in Greece
Flag of Greece.svg
  1989 12 June 1994 1999  

25 seats in the European Parliament
 Majority partyMinority partyThird party
  Andreas Papandreou.jpg Antonis Samaras October 2014.jpg
Leader Andreas Papandreou Miltiadis Evert Antonis Samaras
Party PASOK ND PA
Alliance PES EPP–ED EDA
Last election35.96%, 9 seats40.41%, 10 seats
Seats won1092
Seat changeIncrease2.svg 1Decrease2.svg 1New
Popular vote2,458,6192,133,372564,778
Percentage37.64%32.66%8.65%
SwingIncrease2.svg1.68ppDecrease2.svg7.75ppNew

 Fourth partyFifth party
  Aleka Papariga 2009 (cropped).jpg Nikos Konstantopoulos 2013 cropped.jpg
Leader Aleka Papariga Nikos Konstantopoulos
Party KKE Synaspismos
Alliance GUE/NGL GUE/NGL
Last election [lower-alpha 1] [lower-alpha 1]
Seats won22
Seat change
Popular vote410,741408,066
Percentage6.29%6.25%
Swing

European Parliament elections were held in Greece on 12 June 1994 to elect the 25 Greek members of the European Parliament. Members were elected by party-list proportional representation, with a 3% electoral threshold.

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Results

The 1994 European election was the fourth election to the European Parliament in which Greece participated. The ruling PASOK under the leadership of the aging Andreas Papandreou made gains against the opposition conservative New Democracy party. A new party Political Spring had left New Democracy and came in third ahead of the Communist Party of Greece and the Coalition of the Left and Progress which had contested the previous election in coalition. The parties on the left elected two MEPs each, the same result as 1989.

1994 Greece European Parliament election.svg
PartyVotes%Seats+/–
PASOK 2,458,61937.6410+1
New Democracy 2,133,37232.669–1
Political Spring 564,7788.652New
Communist Party of Greece 410,7416.292
Synaspismos 408,0666.252
Democratic Renewal 182,5222.7900
Union of Centrists 77,9511.190New
National Party–National Political Union 50,7480.7800
Kollatos45,8700.700New
Party of Greek Hunters 41,1570.630New
Union of Ecologists 22,7900.350New
Popular European Social Group 18,6480.290New
Political Ecologists 17,0170.2600
Left Movement Against the EEC 14,0070.210New
Marxist–Leninist Communist Party of Greece 9,6390.150New
Ecological Renaissance9,2330.140New
Citizens Movement8,9020.140New
Democratic Party7,9080.120New
Golden Dawn 7,2640.110New
Organization for the Reconstruction of the Communist Party of Greece 5,9560.090New
European Federation Vision4,8340.070New
Nationalist Support3,6010.060New
Olympism3,1530.050New
Autonomous Revolutionary Political Movement790.0000
Other parties25,7360.390
Total6,532,591100.0025+1
Valid votes6,532,59196.01
Invalid/blank votes271,2933.99
Total votes6,803,884100.00
Registered voters/turnout9,550,59671.24
Source: Ikaria

Notes

  1. 1 2 Part of Synaspismos alliance

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