1928 Greek legislative election
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%
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
Popular vote
KF
46.94%
LK
23.94%
AEK
6.71%
KE
5.30%
AB
3.79%
KED
2.71%
PK
2.53%
AS
1.78%
AK
1.68%
KSD
1.56%
EM
1.41%
KPE
1.32%
Others
0.33%
Parliament seats
KF
71.20%
AEK
8.00%
LK
7.60%
KED
3.60%
AS
2.40%
KSD
2.00%
KPE
2.00%
AB
1.60%
PK
1.20%
KE
0.40%
References [ ]
^ Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook , p829 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
^ Nohlen & Stöver, p858