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1996 Greek legislative election
First party
Second party
Third party
Leader
Costas Simitis
Miltiadis Evert
Aleka Papariga
Party
PASOK
ND
KKE
Leader since
30 June 1996
1993
1991
Last election
170 seats, 46.88%
111 seats, 39.30%
9 seats, 4.54%
Seats won
162
108
11
Seat change
8
3
2
Popular vote
2,813,245
2,584,765
380,167
Percentage
41.49%
38.12%
5.61%
Swing
5.2%
1.2%
1.11%
Fourth party
Fifth party
Leader
Nikos Konstantopoulos
Dimitris Tsovolas
Party
Synaspismos
DIKKI
Leader since
1993
1993
Last election
0 seats, 2.94%%
New
Seats won
10
10
Seat change
10
10
Popular vote
347,051
300,617
Percentage
5.12%
4.43%
Swing
2.18%
New
Map of electoral districts, showing the largest party by share of votes. Darker shades indicate stronger vote share.
Distribution of parliament seats after the 1996 elections (
Results ).
Panhellenic Socialist Movement : 162 seats
Parliamentary elections were held in Greece on 22 September 1996.[1] The ruling Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK) of Costas Simitis was re-elected, defeating the liberal-conservative New Democracy party of Miltiadis Evert .
Results [ ]
Party
Votes
%
Seats
+/–
Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK)
2,814,779
41.5
162
–8
New Democracy (ND)
2,586,089
38.1
108
–3
Communist Party of Greece (KKE)
380,046
5.6
11
+2
Left and Progress Coalition (SYN)
347,236
5.1
10
+10
Democratic Social Movement (DIKKI)
300,954
4.4
9
New
Political Spring
199,686
2.9
0
–10
Union of Centrists
48,659
0.7
0
0
Union of Ecologists
19,931
0.3
0
0
Party of Greek Hunters
17,472
0.3
0
0
National Party-National Political Union
16,495
0.2
0
0
Party of Hellenism
12,216
0.2
0
New
Left Struggle
10,416
0.2
0
0
Alternative Ecologists
5,708
0.1
0
New
Golden Dawn (XA)
4,537
0.1
0
New
Ecologists of Greece
4,138
0.1
0
0
Marxist–Leninist Communist Party of Greece (M-L KKE)
4,019
0.1
0
New
Organization for the Reconstruction of the Communist Party of Greece (OAKKE)
3,534
0.1
0
0
Pensioners-Labourers-Farmers-Youth Alliance
2,519
0.0
0
New
Fighting Socialist Party of Greece (ASKE)
2,113
0.0
0
0
Olympic Party
1,614
0.0
0
0
Party of Greek Workers
238
0.0
0
New
Greek Orthodox National Popular Revolutionary Party
163
0.0
0
New
Christian Faith
71
0.0
0
0
Free Democracy
64
0.0
0
New
Hellenic White Movement of Contemporary Ideology
49
0.0
0
0
Panhellenic Orthodox Democratic Movement
42
0.0
0
New
Labour Class
31
0.0
0
New
Human Rights Party
12
0.0
0
0
Party of Responsible Citizens
2
0.0
0
0
Hellenic European Party
1
0.0
0
0
Independents
611
0.0
0
0
Invalid/blank votes
198,759
–
–
–
Total
6,982,204
100
300
0
Registered voters/turnout
9,145,598
76.3
–
–
Source: Nohlen & Stöver
Popular vote
PASOK
41.49%
ND
38.12%
KKE
5.61%
SYN
5.12%
DIKKI
4.43%
POLAN
2.94%
Others
2.28%
Parliament seats
PASOK
54.00%
ND
36.00%
KKE
3.67%
SYN
3.33%
DIKKI
3.00%
References [ ]
^ Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook , p830 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
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