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European Parliament elections were held in Greece on 13 June 2004 to elect 24 Greek members of the European Parliament. Members were elected by party-list proportional representation with a 3% electoral threshold.
The 2004 European election was the sixth election to the European Parliament. The ruling New Democracy party made strong gains, while the opposition PASOK made smaller gains, both at the expense of minor parties. The traditionalist Popular Orthodox Rally, contested in the election for the first time and elected one MEP.
Party | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | |
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New Democracy—Political Spring | 2,633,574 | 43.01 | 11 | +2 | |
PASOK | 2,083,327 | 34.03 | 8 | –1 | |
Communist Party of Greece | 580,396 | 9.48 | 3 | 0 | |
Synaspismos | 254,447 | 4.16 | 1 | –1 | |
Popular Orthodox Rally | 252,429 | 4.12 | 1 | New | |
Women for Another Europe | 46,565 | 0.76 | 0 | New | |
Democratic Regional Union | 44,541 | 0.73 | 0 | New | |
Ecologist Greens | 40,873 | 0.67 | 0 | 0 | |
Union of Centrists | 34,511 | 0.56 | 0 | 0 | |
Greek Ecologists | 32,956 | 0.54 | 0 | 0 | |
Marxist–Leninist Communist Party of Greece | 21,220 | 0.35 | 0 | 0 | |
Hellenic Front | 15,243 | 0.25 | 0 | 0 | |
Democratic Socialist Movement | 13,627 | 0.22 | 0 | New | |
Radical Left Front | 13,387 | 0.22 | 0 | 0 | |
Anti-Capitalist Coalition | 11,938 | 0.19 | 0 | 0 | |
Fighting Socialist Party of Greece | 11,598 | 0.19 | 0 | 0 | |
Patriotic Alliance | 10,618 | 0.17 | 0 | New | |
Rainbow | 6,176 | 0.10 | 0 | 0 | |
Vision | 5,996 | 0.10 | 0 | New | |
Organization for the Reconstruction of the Communist Party of Greece | 5,090 | 0.08 | 0 | 0 | |
European Confederacy | 3,791 | 0.06 | 0 | New | |
Alternative Ecologists | 284 | 0.00 | 0 | 0 | |
Christianity | 45 | 0.00 | 0 | 0 | |
Total | 6,122,632 | 100.00 | 24 | –1 | |
Valid votes | 6,122,632 | 97.44 | |||
Invalid/blank votes | 161,005 | 2.56 | |||
Total votes | 6,283,637 | 100.00 | |||
Registered voters/turnout | 9,938,863 | 63.22 | |||
Source: Ministry of the Interior |
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