1936 Greek legislative election

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All 300 seats in the Hellenic Parliament
151 seats needed for a majority
|  | First party  | Second party  | Third party

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Leader  | Themistoklis Sofoulis | Panagis Tsaldaris | Georgios Kondylis
Party  | Liberal | People's Party | GLRE
Last election  | Boycotted | 255 seats  | 32 seats
Seats won  | 126  | 72  | 60
Seat change  | New |  183  |  28
Popular vote  | 474,651  | 281,597  | 253,384
Percentage  | 37.26%  | 22.10%  | 19.89%

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| Fourth party  | Fifth party  | Sixth party
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Leader  | Nikos Zachariadis | Georgios Kafantaris | Ioannis Metaxas
Party  | PM | DS | KE
Last election  | 0 seats  | Boycotted | 6 seats
Seats won  | 15  | 11  | 7
Seat change  |  15  | New |  1
Popular vote  | 73,411  | 53,693  | 50,137
Percentage  | 5.76%  | 4.21%  | 3.94%

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| Prime Minister before election

Konstantinos Demertzis
Independent

| Prime Minister after election

Konstantinos Demertzis
Independent

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Parliamentary elections were held in Greece on 26 January 1936.[1] The Liberal Party emerged as the largest party in Parliament, winning 126 of the 300 seats.[2]

## Results

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Party| Votes| %| Seats| +/–
| Liberal Party| 474,651| 37.26| 126| New
| People's Party| 281,597| 22.10| 72| –183
| General Popular Radical Union| 253,384| 19.89| 60| +28
| All People Front| 73,411| 5.76| 15| +15
| Democratic Coalition| 53,693| 4.21| 11| New
| Freethinkers' Party| 50,137| 3.94| 7| +1
| National Reform Party| 17,822| 1.40| 4| New
| Old Democratic Union of Crete| 13,762| 1.08| 3| New
| Hellenic Agricultural Party| 13,006| 1.02| 1| New
| Agricultural Democratic Party| 12,333| 0.97| 1| New
| Independents' Alliance| 11,178| 0.88| 0| New
| National Unionist Party| 9,870| 0.77| 0| New
| Communist Archio-Marxist Party| 1,148| 0.09| 0| New
| National Union of Greece| 505| 0.04| 0| 0
| Communist International Front| 296| 0.02| 0| New
| Independents| 7,203| 0.57| 0| –6
Total| 1,273,996| 100.00| 300| 0
Valid votes| 1,273,996| 99.68|
Invalid/blank votes| 4,083| 0.32|
Total votes| 1,278,079| 100.00|
Source: Nohlen & Stöver

## See also

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* 4th of August Regime

## References

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1. ^ Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p830 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
2. ^ Nohlen & Stöver, p859

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