1999 European Parliament election in Greece

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1999 European Parliament election in Greece
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25 seats to the European Parliament
  Majority party Minority party Third party
  Kostas Karamanlis.jpg Kostas Simitis.jpg Aleka Papariga - Crop.jpg
Leader Kostas Karamanlis Costas Simitis Aleka Papariga
Party ND PASOK KKE
Last election 32.70% 37.60% 6.29%
Seats won 9 9 3
Seat change 0 -1 +1
Percentage 36.00% 32.90% 8.67%
Swing +3.3% -4.7% +2.38
  Fourth party Fifth party
    Nikos Konstantopoulos 2013 cropped.jpg
Leader Dimitris Tsovolas Nikos Konstantopoulos
Party DIKKI Coalition of the Left (SYN)
Last election Did not contest 6.25%
Seats won 2 2
Seat change +2 0
Percentage 6.85% 5.16%
Swing +6.85% -1.2%
1999 Greece European Parliament election.svg

The 1999 European Parliament election in Greece for the election of the delegation from Greece to the European Parliament took place on June 13. The election system used in Greece was a party-list proportional representation with a 3% threshold for any party. The number of seats allocated to Greece was 25.

Results[]

The 1999 European election was the fifth election to the European Parliament. The opposition conservative New Democracy party made gains as did the Communist Party of Greece, while the ruling Panhellenic Socialist Movement lost ground. Two parties on the left, the relatively new Democratic Social Movement and the Coalition of the Left and Progress elected two MEPs each. Political Spring, which had elected 2 MEPs in 1994, was unsuccessful in passing the 3% threshold and did not elect any members.[1]

Party Leader Votes Seats
No. %  +− % No. +−
New Democracy Kostas Karamanlis 2,314,371 36.00 +3.3 9 -
Panhellenic Socialist Movement Costas Simitis 2,115,844 32.91 -4.7 9 -1
Communist Party of Greece Aleka Papariga 557,365 8.67 +2.38 3 +1
Democratic Social Movement Dimitris Tsovolas 440,191 6.85 - 2 -
Coalition of the Left and Progress Nikos Konstantopoulos 331,928 5.16 -1.2 2 -
Political Spring Antonis Samaras 146,512 2.28 -6.3 0 -2
The Liberals Stefanos Manos 103,962 1.62 +1.6 0 -
Party of Greek Hunters 64,194 1.00 0 -
Union of Centrists Vassilis Leventis 52,512 0.82 0 -
Front Line Konstantinos Plevris 48,532 0.75 0 -
Οικολογικό Ελληνικό 48,532 0.75 0 -
Greek Ecologists Dimosthenis Vergis 30,684 0.48 0 -
Ριζοσπαστική Αντιαπαγορευτική Κίνηση 21,274 0.33 0 -
Marxist-Leninist Communist Party of Greece 16,782 0.26 0 -
Party of Hellenism 16,608 0.26 0 -
Alternative Ecologists (Chatzipanagiotou) 14,335 0.22 0 -
Popular Unions of Bipartisan Social Groups (Lefko) 14,266 0.22 0 -
Radical Left Front 10,884 0.17 0 -
Militant Socialist Party of Greece 9,840 0.15 0 -
Socialist Worker's Party 8,049 0.13 0 -
Hellenic Front Makis Voridis 7,693 0.12 0 -
Rainbow 4,951 0.08 0 -
Organization for the Reconstruction of the Communist Party of Greece 4,600 0.07 0 -
1,201 0.02 0 -
Alternative Ecologists (Shizas) 832 0.01 0 -
Others 57,219 0.89 0 -
No. of valid votes 6,429,036 100,00   25 -
Invalid votes 283,648  
Total 6,712,684
(70.3%)
Registered voters 9,555,326

Sources:[2][3]

Popular vote
ND
 
 36.00%
PASOK
 
 32.91%
KKE
 
 8.67%
DIKKI
 
 6.85%
SYN
 
 5.16%
POLAN
 
 2.28%
OIFIL
 
 1.62%
KEK
 
 1.00%
EK
 
 0.82%
Others
 
 4.70%

References[]

  1. ^ Interior Ministry--Election Results
  2. ^ "Archivo Histórico Electoral statistics". Archived from the original on 2012-06-30. Retrieved 2006-08-01.
  3. ^ George Th. Mavrogordatos (December 2000). "Greece". European Journal of Political Research. 38 (3–4): 397–401. doi:10.1111/j.1475-6765.2000.tb01146.x. (Only deals with the parties that took seats)
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