November 1989 Greek parliamentary election

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November 1989 Greek parliamentary election
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  Jun 1989 5 November 1989 1990  

All 300 seats in the Hellenic Parliament
151 seats needed for a majority
 First partySecond partyThird party
  Mitsotakis 1992.jpg Andreas Papandreou.jpg Charilaos Florakis.JPG
Leader Konstantinos Mitsotakis Andreas Papandreou Charilaos Florakis
Party ND PASOK Synaspismos
Last election44.28%, 145 seats39.13%, 125 seats13.13%, 28 seats
Seats won14812821
Seat changeIncrease2.svg 3Increase2.svg 3Decrease2.svg 7
Popular vote3,093,0552,723,739734,552
Percentage46.19%40.67%10.97%
SwingIncrease2.svg1.91 pp Increase2.svg1.55 pp Decrease2.svg2.16 pp

 Fourth partyFifth partySixth party
 
Leader Dimitris Chatzhpanagiotou Sadik Achmet Achmet Faikoglu
Party OE Trust Fate
Last election0.38%, 1 seat0.14%, 0 seats
Seats won111
Seat changeNewSteady2.svgIncrease2.svg 1
Popular vote39,13026,01210,971
Percentage0.58%0.39%0.16%
SwingNewDecrease2.svg0.01 pp Increase2.svg0.04 pp

Prime Minister before election

Giannis Grivas
Independent

Prime Minister after election

Xenophon Zolotas
Independent

Early parliamentary elections were held in Greece on 5 November 1989. [1] The liberal-conservative New Democracy party of Konstantinos Mitsotakis emerged as the largest party in Parliament, defeating PASOK of Andreas Papandreou. However, as in June 1989, Mitsotakis was unable to form a government since his party had failed to win a majority of seats. A National Unity government was formed under Xenophon Zolotas (a retired banker at the age of 85) as a way out of the deadlock and to restore public trust in political institutions after the recent indictments of Papandreou and four of his ministers for the Koskotas scandal.

Results

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PartyVotes%Seats+/–
New Democracy 3,093,05546.19148+3
Panhellenic Socialist Movement 2,723,73940.67128+3
Coalition of the Left and Progress 734,55210.9721–7
Alternative Ecologists 39,1300.581New
Trust 26,0120.3910
Left Initiative of Communist Radical Ecologists (AKOAEKKE)13,4610.200New
Kollatos–Independent Political Movement–Ecologic–Hellenic13,0580.190New
Fate 10,9710.161+1
Ecologists of Greece 10,2230.150New
Liberal Party 5,1250.0800
Popular Unions of Bipartisan Social Groups 4,4100.070New
Communist Party of Greece (Marxist–Leninist) 3,1880.0500
Fighting Socialist Party of Greece 1,6020.0200
Marxist–Leninist Communist Party of Greece 1,4220.0200
Labour Anti-Imperialistic Front1,3840.0200
Self-Governed Movement of Labour Politics1,2590.0200
Workers Revolutionary Party – Trotskyists1,1040.020New
Olympic Party8400.0100
Organization for the Reconstruction of the Communist Party of Greece 6140.0100
National Front of National Fighters990.000New
Independent Party of Democratic Revival610.000New
Hellenists Party 530.000New
Greens Ecological Party of Greece–Hellenic Alternative Green Movement460.000New
Olympic Democracy320.0000
Revolutionary-Popular Executive Committee "Care"220.000New
Independent Social Democratic Revival210.0000
Humanism and Peace Party150.000New
Regional Civic Development120.000New
Hellenic Social Democratic Revolutionary Liberation Front "Spartacus"90.000New
Movement of Non-Privileged40.000New
Hellenic European Party30.000New
Self-Respect20.000New
Hellenic European Party 198410.000New
Independents11,5630.1700
Total6,697,092100.003000
Valid votes6,697,09298.50
Invalid/blank votes101,9171.50
Total votes6,799,009100.00
Registered voters/turnout8,425,21280.70
Source: Nohlen & Stöver

References

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