1933 Greek legislative election

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1933 Greek legislative election
Flag of Greece (1822-1978).svg
  1932 5 March 1933 1935  

All 248 seats in the Vouli
125 seats needed for a majority
 First partySecond partyThird party
  PnagiotisTsaldaris1932.jpg Eleftherios Venizelos, portrait 1935.jpg AlexandrosPapanastasiu.jpeg
Leader Panagis Tsaldaris Eleftherios Venizelos Alexandros Papanastasiou
Party People's Party Liberal AEK
Last election33.80%, 95 seats33.42%, 98 seats5.89%, 8 seats
Seats won1188013
Seat changeIncrease2.svg 23Decrease2.svg 18Increase2.svg 5
Popular vote434,550379,96847,460
Percentage38.07%33.29%4.16%
SwingIncrease2.svg4.27ppDecrease2.svg0.13ppDecrease2.svg1.73pp

 Fourth partyFifth partySixth party
  Georgios Kondylis.jpg Georgios Kaphantaris 1927.jpg Ioannis Metaxas 1937 cropped.jpg
Leader Georgios Kondylis Georgios Kafantaris Ioannis Metaxas
Party ERK Progressive KE
Last election4.07%, 5 seats8.35%, 14 seats1.59%, 2 seats
Seats won11106
Seat changeIncrease2.svg 6Decrease2.svg 4Increase2.svg 4
Popular vote46,69277,25425,758
Percentage4.09%6.77%2.26%
SwingIncrease2.svg0.02ppDecrease2.svg1.57ppIncrease2.svg0.67pp

Prime Minister before election

Eleftherios Venizelos
Liberal

Prime Minister after election

Panagis Tsaldaris
People's Party

Parliamentary elections were held in Greece on 5 March 1933. [1] The pro-monarchist People's Party emerged as the largest party, winning 118 of the 248 seats in Parliament, ending the predominance of Eleftherios Venizelos' Liberal Party. The results triggered an attempted coup by Venizelist officers. A military emergency government under Alexandros Othonaios was instituted which suppressed the revolt, and was succeeded by a People's Party cabinet under Panagis Tsaldaris on 10 March. [2]

Results

EKLOGES 1933.svg
PartyVotes%Seats+/–
People's Party 434,55038.07118+23
Liberal Party 379,96833.2980–18
Progressive Party 77,2546.7710–4
Communist Party of Greece 52,9584.640–13
Agricultural and Labour Party 47,4604.1613+5
National Radical Party 46,6924.0911+6
Freethinkers' Party 25,7582.266+4
Independent Party 22,9852.012New
Farmers' Party 20,2001.771–12
National Alliance 14,3021.255New
Conservative Democratic Party 9,6720.852+2
Independents9,5320.8400
Total1,141,331100.00248–2
Valid votes1,141,33199.51
Invalid/blank votes5,6120.49
Total votes1,146,943100.00
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
  2. Nohlen & Stöver, p869