2019 Greek parliamentary election Last updated March 02, 2025
2019 Greek parliamentary election Opinion polls Registered 9,962,261 Turnout 57.78% (pp ) First party Second party Third party Leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis Alexis Tsipras Fofi Gennimata Party ND Syriza KINAL Last election 28.09%, 75 seats 35.46%, 145 seats 6.28%, 17 seats Seats won 158 86 22 Seat change Popular vote 2,251,618 1,781,057 457,623 Percentage 39.85% 31.53% 8.10% Swing pp pp pp Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party Leader Dimitris Koutsoumpas Kyriakos Velopoulos Yanis Varoufakis Party KKE EL MeRA25 Last election 5.55%, 15 seats – – Seats won 15 10 9 Seat change New New Popular vote 299,621 209,290 194,576 Percentage 5.30% 3.70% 3.44% Swing pp New New
Results by constituency
Parliamentary elections were held in Greece on 7 July 2019. [ 1] [ 2] The elections were called by Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on 26 May 2019 after the ruling Syriza party lost the European and local elections . [ 3] They were the first national elections since the voting age was lowered to 17, and the number of parliamentary constituencies was increased from 56 to 59. Athens B , the largest constituency before the 2018 reforms, with 44 seats, was broken up into smaller constituencies, the largest of which had 18 seats.
The result was a landslide victory for the centre-right liberal conservative New Democracy party led by Kyriakos Mitsotakis , which received nearly 40% of the vote and won 158 seats, an outright majority. This was Greece's first single-party majority government since 2009.
Electoral system A visual representation of the seat allocation system used in Greece Compulsory voting was in force for the elections, with voter registration being automatic. [ 4] However, none of the legally existing penalties or sanctions have ever been enforced. [ 5]
A number of changes to the electoral system were introduced following the September 2015 elections . The voting age was reduced from 18 to 17 in July 2016, [ 6] with the same law also abolishing the majority bonus system , which gave a 50-seat bonus to the largest party. Instead, all 300 seats would be awarded proportionally. [ 6] However, this law did not come into effect for the 2019 elections, as it was not approved with the required supermajority despite the Syriza -led government expressing support for its introduction for the 2019 elections. [ 7] As a result, the previous system remained in force, with 250 seats elected in multi-member constituencies using a 3% electoral threshold , plus 50 bonus seats for the largest party.
The number of parliamentary constituencies was also modified in December 2018, with Athens B split into Athens B1 (North) , Athens B2 (West) , and Athens B3 (South) , while Attica was split into East Attica and West Attica . [ 8]
Opinion polls Local regression trend line of poll results from 20 September 2015 to 7 July 2019, with each line corresponding to a political party. Conduct A few minutes before the polls closed, a group of young protesters stormed the 33rd polling station in the distinct of Exarcheia , Athens, and stole the ballot box. A previously-unknown anarchist group, Ballot-seeking Arsonists, later claimed responsibility. It claimed to have burned the stolen ballot box. As a result, a repeat election at the same polling station was held a week later, on 14 July. [ 9] [ 10] The results did not change the final allocation of seats because of the small volume of votes.
Results Results, showing the winning party in each municipal unit. Party Votes % Seats +/– New Democracy 2,251,618 39.85 158 +83 Syriza 1,781,057 31.53 86 –59 Movement for Change 457,623 8.10 22 +5 Communist Party of Greece 299,621 5.30 15 0 Greek Solution 209,290 3.70 10 New MeRA25 194,576 3.44 9 New Golden Dawn 165,620 2.93 0 –18 Course of Freedom 82,786 1.47 0 New Union of Centrists 70,178 1.24 0 –9 Recreate Greece 41,631 0.74 0 0 United Popular Front –Agricultural Livestock Party 28,313 0.50 0 0 Antarsya 23,239 0.41 0 0 Popular Unity 15,612 0.28 0 0 Assembly of Greeks 14,079 0.25 0 New Communist Party of Greece (Marxist–Leninist) 7,760 0.14 0 0 Marxist–Leninist Communist Party of Greece 2,706 0.05 0 0 Workers Revolutionary Party 1,719 0.03 0 0 Organisation of Internationalist Communists 1,576 0.03 0 0 Syn...Fonia Politikon Kommaton 51 0.00 0 New Greek Ecologists 0 0.00 0 0 Independents 472 0.01 0 0 Total 5,649,527 100.00 300 0 Valid votes 5,649,527 97.92 Invalid votes 77,477 1.34 Blank votes 42,640 0.74 Total votes 5,769,644 100.00 Registered voters/turnout 9,984,934 57.78 Source: Ministry of the Interior
By region Constituency ND SYRIZA KINAL [ a] KKE EL MERA25 XA % ± % ± % ± % ± % ± % ± % ± Achaea 32.43 40.27 8.91 5.45 3.24 New 3.14 New 2.12 Aetolia-Akarnania 40.95 33.89 10.24 4.93 1.69 New 2.13 New 2.74 Argolis 43.43 24.99 14.84 3.56 3.25 New 3.12 New 2.68 Arkadia 42.56 30.14 10.81 4.54 2.75 New 2.67 New 2.58 Arta 38.99 39.94 8.44 4.83 1.43 New 1.98 New 1.50 Athens A 42.32 31.29 5.16 6.37 2.58 New 3.84 New 3.09 Athens B1 45.81 28.22 5.59 6.19 2.54 New 4.15 New 2.00 Athens B2 29.69 38.60 6.00 8.65 3.51 New 4.28 New 3.16 Athens B3 39.49 32.03 5.72 7.13 2.99 New 4.44 New 2.42 East Attica 43.13 29.60 5.03 4.96 4.85 New 3.87 New 3.16 West Attica 34.28 36.24 5.24 5.93 5.24 New 3.20 New 4.62 Boeotia 36.25 32.27 9.70 7.01 3.39 New 3.41 New 3.23 Cephalonia 37.94 32.45 5.82 9.52 2.49 New 3.45 New 2.99 Chalkidiki 42.59 24.32 10.37 3.14 4.33 New 3.81 New 5.26 Chania 34.05 37.35 6.54 5.02 3.13 New 4.85 New 2.45 Chios 45.65 22.14 14.94 4.78 2.43 New 2.89 New 2.98 Corfu 35.14 34.41 7.50 6.99 2.40 New 4.84 New 3.18 Corinthia 41.80 30.73 8.47 2.80 4.11 New 3.68 New 3.41 Cyclades 43.55 28.32 8.52 4.20 2.88 New 4.10 New 2.78 Dodecanese 41.28 29.73 10.37 3.20 3.87 New 3.01 New 3.69 Drama 43.90 22.72 12.31 2.78 6.70 New 3.10 New 2.96 Elis 36.03 34.82 14.79 3.62 2.88 New 2.21 New 2.40 Euboea 36.61 34.91 8.53 4.98 4.16 New 3.14 New 2.64 Evros 44.99 27.55 8.17 2.95 5.86 New 2.39 New 3.52 Evrytania 48.87 29.54 9.94 2.79 2.14 New 1.84 New 1.61 Florina 39.02 35.51 6.24 3.07 7.27 New 2.78 New 2.37 Grevena 43.16 29.49 9.89 5.82 2.74 New 2.32 New 2.87 Imathia 41.92 26.98 8.24 4.68 5.63 New 3.06 New 4.04 Ioannina 37.42 36.30 9.53 4.99 2.34 New 2.79 New 1.94 Heraklion 30.15 43.22 11.38 3.57 2.18 New 4.03 New 1.51 Karditsa 44.91 30.45 9.42 5.60 2.49 New 1.87 New 2.29 Kastoria 50.23 27.10 7.00 2.53 2.73 New 2.98 New 2.98 Kavala 42.55 26.20 8.48 4.18 5.86 New 3.13 New 3.35 Kilkis 42.35 23.22 11.21 5.05 5.16 New 2.70 New 5.24 Kozani 39.39 31.39 10.30 4.64 4.01 New 2.96 New 2.54 Laconia 49.91 19.63 14.39 3.57 3.19 New 2.01 New 3.64 Larissa 39.30 31.25 8.79 6.25 4.34 New 2.81 New 2.82 Lasithi 34.32 34.57 15.40 2.93 2.64 New 3.08 New 1.52 Lefkada 44.37 28.19 9.60 8.16 1.30 New 2.81 New 1.83 Lesbos 38.99 29.01 8.57 10.04 2.62 New 2.25 New 3.48 Magnesia 38.76 32.16 6.58 5.33 4.34 New 3.78 New 3.89 Messenia 44.37 30.66 6.85 4.69 3.35 New 3.02 New 2.86 Pella 42.29 28.52 9.31 2.59 5.60 New 2.50 New 3.59 Phocis 44.75 29.16 7.35 6.04 3.01 New 3.00 New 2.62 Phthiotis 43.79 31.64 7.59 4.38 3.19 New 2.58 New 2.82 Pieria 47.45 23.33 8.52 3.98 5.73 New 2.78 New 3.21 Piraeus A 43.73 29.72 4.94 5.51 3.39 New 3.88 New 3.18 Piraeus B 30.19 38.22 5.09 8.02 4.20 New 4.40 New 3.69 Preveza 43.47 34.38 8.25 5.49 1.39 New 2.07 New 1.65 Rethymno 36.55 36.99 9.82 3.33 2.30 New 3.45 New 1.72 Rhodope 37.84 27.17 21.94 4.25 2.57 New 1.38 New 2.17 Samos 34.13 29.08 6.85 14.47 3.30 New 2.81 New 3.55 Serres 48.04 23.25 8.68 3.41 6.11 New 3.13 New 2.94 Thesprotia 41.14 31.54 13.28 3.73 1.81 New 2.50 New 1.61 Thessaloniki A 35.52 31.31 6.05 5.30 5.39 New 4.76 New 3.92 Thessaloniki B 43.02 25.14 6.65 4.61 5.65 New 4.06 New 4.20 Trikala 44.40 29.54 9.71 6.07 2.85 New 2.05 New 1.82 Xanthi 36.78 39.60 8.78 2.19 3.44 New 2.35 New 2.62 Zakynthos 41.91 31.44 5.37 9.04 2.21 New 3.32 New 2.36
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