2014 Greek local elections

Local elections were held in Greece on 18 May 2014 (first round) and 25 May 2014 (second round).^[1]^[2] Voters elected representatives to the country's local authorities, comprising 13 regions and 325 municipalities.

Background[]

Traditionally, candidates at local elections do not run under the official name of any party as the constitution only foresees the participation of electoral lists (or "combinations") and not parties. Despite this theoretical independence and distinction, for all practical purposes most candidates run as local front organisations for political parties.^[3]

Issues[]

Greece is still facing a long-term government-debt crisis, which may affect the elections.

Election results[]

Source: Hellenic Ministry of the Interior

In the municipalities, as well as the regions, any candidate can participate in the first round. If the leading candidate does not have an absolute majority (50%+) of the votes, then a second round is held between the two leading candidates in the first round.

Regions[]

Attica[]

Contender Rena Dourou (SYRIZA) defeated incumbent (Society of Values) in the second round and succeeded him as Regional Governor of Attica.

Candidate	Supporting Parties	1st Round			2nd Round			Total seats
Candidate	Supporting Parties	Votes	%	Seats	Votes	%	Seats	Total seats
Rena Dourou	SYRIZA	386,833	23.80	12	794,231	50.82	49	61
[el]	[el] ^[a]	359,302	22.11	11	768,604	49.18	1	12
Georgios Koumoutsakos	Nea Dimokratia	228,913	14.08	7				7
Ilias Panagiotaros	Golden Dawn	180,908	11.13	6				6
Thanasis Pafilis	KKE	173,325	10.66	5				5
Pavlos Chaikalis	ANEL	116,464	7.17	4				4
[el]	Recreate Greece – Drasi	48,242	2.97	2				2
	Ecologist Greens	36,449	2.24	1				1
	ANTARSYA	33,895	2.09	1				1
	EPAL	32,475	2.00	1				1
Maria Giannakaki	DIMAR – Greens –	28,601	1.76	1				1

Central Greece[]

Kostas Bakoyannis (ND) defeated Evangelos Apostolou (SYRIZA) in the second round and succeeded Klearchos Pergantas (PASOK) as Regional Governor of Central Greece.

Candidate	Supporting Parties	1st Round			2nd Round			Total seats
Candidate	Supporting Parties	Votes	%	Seats	Votes	%	Seats	Total seats
Kostas Bakoyannis	Nea Dimokratia	136,688	41.35	11	161,286	56.06	20	31
Evangelos Apostolou	SYRIZA	61,961	18.75	5	126,428	43.94	5	10
Athanasios Giannopoulos	EPAL	47,609	14.40	4				4
	Golden Dawn	29,867	9.04	2				2
[fr]	KKE	29,191	8.83	2				2
	DIMAR	14,115	4.27	1				1
	ANTARSYA	11,093	3.36	1				1

Central Macedonia[]

Incumbent Apostolos Tzitzikostas (ANEL/EPAL/LAOS) defeated contender Giannis Ioannidis (ND) in the second round and remained Regional Governor of Central Macedonia.

Candidate	Supporting Parties	1st Round			2nd Round			Total seats
Candidate	Supporting Parties	Votes	%	Seats	Votes	%	Seats	Total seats
Apostolos Tzitzikostas	ANEL – EPAL – LAOS	322,829	32.81		562.964	71.01		43
Giannis Ioannidis	Nea Dimokratia	182,912	18.59		229,838	28.99		11
[fr]	SYRIZA	115,484	11.74	4				4
	Golden Dawn	85,960	8.74	3				3
[el]	DIMAR	84,089	8.55	3				3
	KKE	78,330	7.96	3				3
	Elia – Drasi – [el]	58,059	5.90	2				2
Michalis Tremopoulos	Ecologist Greens – Greens	30,419	3.09	1				1
	ANTARSYA	25,842	2.63	1				1

Crete[]

Incumbent Stavros Arnaoutakis (Drasi) defeated contender (ND) in the second round and remained Regional Governor of Crete.

Candidate	Supporting Parties	1st Round			2nd Round			Total seats
Candidate	Supporting Parties	Votes	%	Seats	Votes	%	Seats	Total seats
Stavros Arnaoutakis	Drasi	143,461	41.13		184,154	64.01		31
	Nea Dimokratia	91,411	26.21		103,547	35.99		11
[fr]	SYRIZA	65,000	18.64	5				5
	KKE	19,912	5.71	1				1
[el]	Golden Dawn	11,585	3.32	1				1
	DIMAR – Ecologist Greens	9,234	2.65	1				1
	ANTARSYA	8,198	2.35	1				1

Eastern Macedonia and Thrace[]

Giorgos Pavlidis (ND), the former prefect of Xanthi, defeated incumbent (ind.) in the second round and succeeded him as Regional Governor of Eastern Macedonia and Thrace.

Candidate	Supporting Parties	1st Round			2nd Round			Total seats
Candidate	Supporting Parties	Votes	%	Seats	Votes	%	Seats	Total seats
Giorgos Pavlidis	Nea Dimokratia	122,086	34.73		168,852	56.34		31
[el]	–	96,959	27.58		130,845	43.66		10
Konstantinos Morfidis	SYRIZA	40,105	11.41	3				3
Terence Quick	ANEL	28,728	8.17	2				2
Christos Kitsopoulos	Golden Dawn	20,942	5.96	2				2
Christos Trellis	KKE	18,859	5.36	1				1
Vasileos Traiforos	DIMAR	10,158	2.89	1				1
Katerina Gerostergiou	Ecologist Greens – Greens	8,322	2.37	1				1
Giorgos Botsidis	ANTARSYA	5,387	1.53	0				0

Epirus[]

Incumbent (ND) defeated contender Olga Gerovasili (SYRIZA) in the first round and remained Regional Governor of Epirus.

Candidate	Supporting Parties	Votes	%	Seats
[el]	Nea Dimokratia	110,746	50.83	31
Olga Gerovasili	SYRIZA	53,543	24.58	10
	DIMAR	21,037	9.66	4
	KKE	17,549	8.05	3
	Golden Dawn	8,591	3.94	2
	ANTARSYA	6,400	2.94	1

Ionian Islands[]

Contender (SYRIZA), defeated incumbent [el] (ND) in the second round and succeeded him as Regional Governor of the Ionian Islands.

Candidate	Supporting Parties	1st Round			2nd Round			Total seats
Candidate	Supporting Parties	Votes	%	Seats	Votes	%	Seats	Total seats
	SYRIZA	24,694	20.55		63,506	59.93		24
[el]	Nea Dimokratia	26,147	21.76		42,469	40.07		5
Angela Gerekou	Drasi	17,419	14.49	3				3
	Ecologist Greens	14,428	12.01	3				3
	KKE	13,750	11.44	2				2
	–	6,216	5.17	1				1
	Golden Dawn	6,192	5.15	1				1
	–	5,483	4.56	1				1
	DIMAR	3,192	2.66	1				1
	ANTARSYA	2,661	2.21	0				0

North Aegean[]

Contender Christiana Kalogirou (ND) defeated incumbent [el] (ind.) in the second round and succeeded him as Regional Governor of the North Aegean.

Candidate	Supporting Parties	1st Round			2nd Round			Total seats
Candidate	Supporting Parties	Votes	%	Seats	Votes	%	Seats	Total seats
Christiana Kalogirou	Nea Dimokratia	33,410	31.51		46,357	53.01		25
[el]	–	27,446	25.88		41,095	46.99		6
[fr]	SYRIZA	20,538	19.37	4				4
	KKE	15,565	14.68	3				3
	DIMAR – Drasi	3,673	3.46	1				1
	Ecologist Greens	2,878	2.71	1				1
	ANTARSYA	2,525	2.38	1				1

Peloponnese[]

Incumbent Petros Tatoulis (ND) defeated contender (SYRIZA) in the second round and remained Regional Governor of Peloponnese.

Candidate	Supporting Parties	1st Round			2nd Round			Total seats
Candidate	Supporting Parties	Votes	%	Seats	Votes	%	Seats	Total seats
Petros Tatoulis	Nea Dimokratia	157,672	43.17		182.456	59.35		31
	SYRIZA	57,417	15.72		124.953	40.65		9
Giorgos Dedes	DIMAR – [el]	56,181	15.38	4				4
	Golden Dawn	32,894	9.01	2				2
	KKE	23,696	6.49	2				2
	EPAL	18,797	5.15	1				1
	ANTARSYA	10,653	2.92	1				1
	Ecologist Greens	7,946	2.18	1				1

South Aegean[]

Contender (ND) defeated incumbent [el] (ind.) in the second round and succeeded him as Regional Governor of the South Aegean.

Candidate	Supporting Parties	1st Round			2nd Round			Total seats
Candidate	Supporting Parties	Votes	%	Seats	Votes	%	Seats	Total seats
	Nea Dimokratia	61,168	35.71		83,317	56.86		31
[el]	–	55,269	32.27		63,216	43.14		11
	SYRIZA – Ecologist Greens	31,483	18.38	5				5
[el]	KKE	13,561	7.92	2				2
	Golden Dawn	9,813	5.73	2				2

Thessaly[]

Incumbent [el] (ND) defeated contender (DIMAR) in the second round and remained Regional Governor of Thessaly.

Candidate	Supporting Parties	1st Round			2nd Round			Total seats
Candidate	Supporting Parties	Votes	%	Seats	Votes	%	Seats	Total seats
[el]	Nea Dimokratia	189,591	42.90		208,170	54.50		31
	DIMAR	76,434	17.30		173,814	45.50		9
[fr]	SYRIZA	58,762	13.30	3				3
	KKE	46,075	10.43	3				3
Panagiotis Iliopoulos	Golden Dawn	30,552	6.91	2				2
	ANEL	20,456	4.63	1				1
	Ecologist Greens – Greens	10,166	2.30	1				1
	ANTARSYA	9,870	2.23	1				1

Western Greece[]

Incumbent Apostolos Katsifaras (ind.) defeated contender [fr] (Nea Dimokratia) in the second round and remained Regional Governor of Western Greece.

Candidate	Supporting Parties	1st Round			2nd Round			Total seats
Candidate	Supporting Parties	Votes	%	Seats	Votes	%	Seats	Total seats
Apostolos Katsifaras	–	92,462	23.06		153,028	50.50		31
[fr]	Nea Dimokratia	79,610	19.85		149,984	49.50		5
[fr]	SYRIZA	67,406	16.81	4				4
[el]	DIMAR	50,862	12.68	3				3
Nikos Karathanasopoulos	KKE	35,284	8.80	2				2
	Golden Dawn	31,338	7.82	2				2
[el]	–	13,069	3.26	1				1
	ANEL	11,794	2.94	1				1
	Ecologist Greens	10,957	2.73	1				1
	ANTARSYA	8,187	2.04	1				1

Western Macedonia[]

Contender (ind.), defeated incumbent [el] (ND) in the second round and succeeded him as Regional Governor of Western Macedonia.

Candidate	Supporting Parties	1st Round			2nd Round			Total seats
Candidate	Supporting Parties	Votes	%	Seats	Votes	%	Seats	Total seats
	–	24,694	29.13		101,566	59.01		25
[el]	Nea Dimokratia	67,859	35.61		70,545	40.99		9
	SYRIZA	21,054	11.05	2				2
	DIMAR	20,573	10.80	2				2
	KKE	13,134	6.89	2				2
	Golden Dawn	8,982	4.71	1				1
	ANTARSYA	3,443	1.81	0				0

Major municipalities[]

Athens[]

Candidate	Supporting Party	1st Round	%	2nd Round	%	Total seats
Giorgos Kaminis	Olive Tree- Democratic Left– [el]- Greens-	46,976	21.06	110,987	51.42	29
Gabriel Sakellaridis	Coalition of Radical Left	44,620	20.00	104,876	48.58	5
Aris Spiliotopoulos	New Democracy	37,746	16.92			4
Ilias Kasidiaris	Golden Dawn	35,949	16.12			4
	Communist Party of Greece	16,529	7.41			2
Nikitas Kaklamanis	EPAL^[b]	15,834	7.10			2
	Independent Greeks	7,937	3.56			1
	Independent-Panathinaikos Movement	6,489	2.91			1
	ANTARSYA	4,398	1.97 1			1
Ioanna Kondouli	Ecologist Greens	3,024	1.36			0
	Independent	2,097	0.94			0
	Independent	1,474	0.66			0

Thessaloniki[]

Candidate	Supporting Party	1st Round^[4]	%	2nd Round	%	Total seats
Yiannis Boutaris	Olive Tree - Drassi -	47,628	36.04	70,126	58.11	29
	New Democracy	34,564	26.16	50,542	41.89	10
	Coalition of Radical Left	13,968	10.57			3
	Golden Dawn	10,195	7.71			2
	Communist Party of Greece	8,233	6.23			2
		4,168	3.15			1
	Ecologist Greens - Greens	4,131	3.13			1
George Rakkas		2,869	2.17			1
Giannis Koutras	ANTARSYA	2,804	2.12			0
Giannis Kouriannidis	National Unity Association - National Front	1,918	1.45			0
Dimitris Papamichael	Pirate Party of Greece	1,672	1.27			0

Nationwide percentage results[]

	Nationwide results	Change from 2010 local elections	Change from 2012 legislative elections
ND	26.3	6.3	3.2
SYRIZA	17.7	12.7	9.2
PASOK (Olive Tree) ^[c]	16.2	18.5	3.9
KKE	8.8	2.1	4.3
ΧΑ	8.1	-	1.1
DIMAR	3.8	1.6	2.3
ANEL	3.2	-	4.3
ANTARSYA	2.3	0.5	2.0
OP	2.1	0.7	1.2
All others	11.1	0.8

^[5]

Reaction[]

The elections were regarded as a victory for SYRIZA,^[6]^[7]^[8]^[9] which was not expected to perform well due to its weak local organization.^[10] Candidates backed by the ruling New Democracy fared poorly, particularly Prime Minister Antonis Samaras' hand-picked candidates.^[8] In Athens, New Democracy failed to make the runoff for the first time since 1975.^[6]^[9]

In response the results, PM Samaras said "Greece must show it has the stability that it deserves" in the second round and European election scheduled to take place next week.^[6] Opposition leader Alexis Tsipras said it was a "historic day", and that next Sunday would be "the first day of a new era."^[6]^[7]

Notes[]

^ This candidate ran as an independent, but is closely identified with PASOK.^[9]
^ This candidate is a former member of New Democracy.
^ including Agreement for the New Greece, Dynamic Greece and others

References[]

^ nikosk (29 July 2013). "Δημοτικές εκλογές – Ευρωεκλογές 2014: πότε ξεκινάει ο 1ος γύρος". fimes.gr. Retrieved 5 April 2018.
^ aftodioikisi.gr (27 July 2013). "Στις 18 και 25 Μαΐου 2014 οι δημοτικές εκλογές - Aftodioikisi.gr". aftodioikisi.gr. Retrieved 5 April 2018.
^ "Making sense of the ballot Archived 2010-11-10 at the Wayback Machine", Athens News, 5 November 2010, p. 8.
^ ΓΕΩΡΓΙΟΠΟΥΛΟΥ, ΤΑΝΙΑ. "Δεύτερη θητεία για τον Γ. Μπουτάρη". Kathimerini. Kathimerini. Retrieved 26 February 2019.
^ "Public Issue: Στο 26,3% η εκλογική επιρροή της Ν.Δ". euro2day.gr. Retrieved 5 April 2018.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d "Voters back anti-bailout parties in Greece's local elections (in English)". The Guardian. 18 May 2014. Retrieved 19 May 2014.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b "Greece's leftist Syriza party fares well in key local races (in English)". Reuters. 18 May 2014. Retrieved 19 May 2014.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b "Greeks tempted to 'experiment' with Syriza, local election shows (in English)". EurActiv. 19 May 2014. Retrieved 19 May 2014.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c "Leftist Syriza Candidates Gain on Incumbents in Greek Local Elections (in English)". The Washington Post. 18 May 2014. Retrieved 19 May 2014.
^ "Local elections in Greece a precursor of European vote (in English)". . 18 May 2014. Retrieved 19 May 2014.

[IDPASOK-4] This candidate ran as an independent, but is closely identified with PASOK.^[9]

[exnd-5] This candidate is a former member of New Democracy.

[UNION-7] uding Agreement for the New Greece, Dynamic Greece and others

[1] sk (29 July 2013). "Δημοτικές εκλογές – Ευρωεκλογές 2014: πότε ξεκινάει ο 1ος γύρος". fimes.gr. Retrieved 5 April 2018.

[2] todioikisi.gr (27 July 2013). "Στις 18 και 25 Μαΐου 2014 οι δημοτικές εκλογές - Aftodioikisi.gr". aftodioikisi.gr. Retrieved 5 April 2018.

[3] "Making sense of the ballot Archived 2010-11-10 at the Wayback Machine", Athens News, 5 November 2010, p. 8.

[6] ΓΕΩΡΓΙΟΠΟΥΛΟΥ, ΤΑΝΙΑ. "Δεύτερη θητεία για τον Γ. Μπουτάρη". Kathimerini. Kathimerini. Retrieved 26 February 2019.

[8] "Public Issue: Στο 26,3% η εκλογική επιρροή της Ν.Δ". euro2day.gr. Retrieved 5 April 2018.

[guarr-9] Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d "Voters back anti-bailout parties in Greece's local elections (in English)". The Guardian. 18 May 2014. Retrieved 19 May 2014.

[reutersr-10] Jump up to: ^a ^b "Greece's leftist Syriza party fares well in key local races (in English)". Reuters. 18 May 2014. Retrieved 19 May 2014.

[eurar-11] Jump up to: ^a ^b "Greeks tempted to 'experiment' with Syriza, local election shows (in English)". EurActiv. 19 May 2014. Retrieved 19 May 2014.

[wapor-12] Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c "Leftist Syriza Candidates Gain on Incumbents in Greek Local Elections (in English)". The Washington Post. 18 May 2014. Retrieved 19 May 2014.

[13] "Local elections in Greece a precursor of European vote (in English)". . 18 May 2014. Retrieved 19 May 2014.

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