1928 Greek legislative election

1928 Greek legislative election

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All 250 seats of the Greek Parliament 126 seats were needed for a majority
First party Second party Third party   Leader Eleftherios Venizelos Alexandros Papanastasiou Panagis Tsaldaris Party Liberal AEK People's Party Leader since 1910 1926 1922 Last election 108 seats, 33.13% 17 seats, 6.79% 60 seats, 21.23% Seats won 178 20 19 Seat change 70 3 41 Popular vote 477,502 68,278 243,543 Percentage 46.94% 6.71% 23.49% Swing 13.81% 0.08% 2.26%   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Leader Georgios Kondylis Andreas Michalakopoulos Party EDK AS KSD Leader since 1928 1928 Last election New 3 seats, 0.65% 3 seats, 1.38% Seats won 9 6 5 Seat change New 3 2 Popular vote 27,603 18,069 15,852 Percentage 2.71% 1.78% 1.56% Swing New 1.13% 0.18%
Prime Minister before election Eleftherios Venizelos Liberal Prime Minister after election Eleftherios Venizelos Liberal

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Parliamentary elections were held in Greece on 19 August 1928.^[1] The result was a victory for the Liberal Party, which won 178 of the 250 seats.^[2]

Background[]

The Venizelists entered the elections as a coalition of five "parties of the liberals" under the leadership of Eleftherios Venizelos. These parties were the Democratic Union (later the Agricultural and Labour Party) under the leadership of Alexandros Papanastasiou, the National Democratic Party led by Georgios Kondylis, the Conservative Democratic Party under Andreas Michalakopoulos and the Progressive Union under the leadership of Konstantinos Zavitsanos. Because he wanted to follow an independent line from Venizelos, Georgios Kafantaris together with some personal friends and various dissatisfied liberals founded the Progressive Party.

The anti-Venizelist movement went into the elections divided as the People's Party, the Freethinkers' Party and a few independent royalists who put themselves up for election. The former dictator, Theodoros Pangalos, stood for election in Athens as chief of the National Union. In addition there were a large number of unaligned and independent candidates. Finally, the Communist Party of Greece entered the elections as the United Front.

Results[]

Party	Votes	%	Seats	+/–
Liberal Party	477,502	46.9	178	+70
People's Party	243,543	23.9	19	–41
Agricultural and Labour Party	68,278	6.7	20	New
Freethinkers' Party	53,958	5.3	1	–51
Independent Royal Supporters	38,556	3.8	4	New
National Democratic Party	27,603	2.7	9	New
Progressive Party	25,729	2.5	3	New
Independent Democrats	18,069	1.8	6	New
Farmers' Party	17,042	1.7	0	New
Conservative Democratic Party	15,852	1.6	5	New
United Front	14,352	1.4	0	New
Progressive Union	13,452	1.3	5	New
National Union of Greece	1,958	0.2	0	New
Independents	1,387	0.1	0	New
Invalid/blank votes	4,153	–	–	–
Total	1,021,434	100	250	–36
Registered voters/turnout			–	–
Source: Nohlen & Stöver

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