2019 Greek legislative election

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All 300 seats in the Hellenic Parliament
151 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
Registered| 9,962,261
Turnout| 57.78% (1.62 pp)
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Leader  | Kyriakos Mitsotakis | Alexis Tsipras | Fofi Gennimata
Party  | ND | Syriza | KINAL
Last election  | 28.09%, 75 seats  | 35.46%, 145 seats  | 6.28%, 17 seats
Seats won  | 158 | 86  | 22
Seat change  |  83  |  59  |  5
Popular vote  | 2,251,618 | 1,781,057  | 457,623
Percentage  | 39.85% | 31.53%  | 8.10%
Swing  |  11.76 pp |  3.93 pp |  1.72 pp

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| Fourth party  | Fifth party  | Sixth party

Leader  | Dimitris Koutsoumpas | Kyriakos Velopoulos | Yanis Varoufakis
Party  | KKE | EL | MeRA25
Last election  | 5.55%, 15 seats  | –  | –
Seats won  | 15  | 10  | 9
Seat change  |  | New | New
Popular vote  | 299,621  | 209,290  | 194,576
Percentage  | 5.30%  | 3.70%  | 3.44%
Swing  |  0.25 pp | New | New

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Largest party by electoral district

Seat distribution by electoral district

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| Prime Minister before election

Alexis Tsipras
Syriza

| Prime Minister after election

Kyriakos Mitsotakis

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Legislative elections were held in Greece on 7 July 2019.[1][2] The elections were called by Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on 26 May 2019 after the ruling Syriza party lost the European and local elections.[3] They were the first national elections since the voting age was lowered to 17, and the number of parliamentary constituencies was increased from 56 to 59. Athens B, the largest constituency before the 2018 reforms, with 44 seats, was broken up into smaller constituencies, the largest of which had 18 seats.

The result was a landslide victory for the centre-right liberal conservative New Democracy party led by Kyriakos Mitsotakis, which received nearly 40% of the vote and won 158 seats, an outright majority. This was Greece's first single-party majority government since 2009.

## Electoral system

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A visual representation of the seat allocation system used in Greece

See also: Elections in Greece, List of parliamentary constituencies of Greece, and Apportionment in the Hellenic Parliament

Compulsory voting was in force for the elections, with voter registration being automatic.[4] However, none of the legally existing penalties or sanctions have ever been enforced.[5]

A number of changes to the electoral system were introduced following the September 2015 elections. The voting age was reduced from 18 to 17 in July 2016,[6] with the same law also abolishing the majority bonus system, which gave a 50-seat bonus to the largest party. Instead, all 300 seats would be awarded proportionally.[6] However, this law did not come into effect for the 2019 elections, as it was not approved with the required supermajority despite the Syriza-led government expressing support for its introduction for the 2019 elections.[7] As a result, the previous system remained in force, with 250 seats elected in multi-member constituencies using a 3% electoral threshold, plus 50 bonus seats for the largest party.

The number of parliamentary constituencies was also modified in December 2018, with Athens B split into Athens B1 (North), Athens B2 (West), and Athens B3 (South), while Attica was split into East Attica and West Attica.[8]

## Opinion polls

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Main article: Opinion polling for the 2019 Greek legislative election

Local regression trend line of poll results from 20 September 2015 to 7 July 2019, with each line corresponding to a political party.

## Conduct

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A few minutes before the polls closed, a group of young protesters stormed the 33rd polling station in the distinct of Exarcheia, Athens, and stole the ballot box. A previously-unknown anarchist group, Ballot-seeking Arsonists, later claimed responsibility. It claimed to have burned the stolen ballot box. As a result, a repeat election at the same polling station was held a week later, on 14 July.[9][10] The results did not change the final allocation of seats because of the small volume of votes.

## Results

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Results, showing the winning party in each municipal unit.

ND (820)

SYRIZA (197)

PASOK (5)

KKE (2)

Party| Votes| %| Seats| +/–
| New Democracy| 2,251,618| 39.85| 158| +83
| Syriza| 1,781,057| 31.53| 86| –59
| Movement for Change| 457,623| 8.10| 22| +5
| Communist Party of Greece| 299,621| 5.30| 15| 0
| Greek Solution| 209,290| 3.70| 10| New
| MeRA25| 194,576| 3.44| 9| New
| Golden Dawn| 165,620| 2.93| 0| –18
| Course of Freedom| 82,786| 1.47| 0| New
| Union of Centrists| 70,178| 1.24| 0| –9
| Recreate Greece| 41,631| 0.74| 0| 0
| United Popular Front–Agricultural Livestock Party| 28,313| 0.50| 0| 0
| Antarsya| 23,239| 0.41| 0| 0
| Popular Unity| 15,612| 0.28| 0| 0
| Assembly of Greeks| 14,079| 0.25| 0| New
| Communist Party of Greece (Marxist–Leninist)| 7,760| 0.14| 0| 0
| Marxist–Leninist Communist Party of Greece| 2,706| 0.05| 0| 0
| Workers Revolutionary Party| 1,719| 0.03| 0| 0
| Organisation of Internationalist Communists| 1,576| 0.03| 0| 0
| Syn...Fonia Politikon Kommaton| 51| 0.00| 0| New
| Greek Ecologists| 0| 0.00| 0| 0
| Independents| 472| 0.01| 0| 0
Total| 5,649,527| 100.00| 300| 0
Valid votes| 5,649,527| 97.92|
Invalid votes| 77,477| 1.34|
Blank votes| 42,640| 0.74|
Total votes| 5,769,644| 100.00|
Registered voters/turnout| 9,984,934| 57.78|
Source: Ministry of the Interior

## Results by region

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Constituency | ND | SYRIZA | KINAL[a] | KKE | EL | MERA25 | XA

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% | ± | % | ± | % | ± | % | ± | % | ± | % | ± | % | ±
Achaea | 32.43 |  10.06 | 40.27 |  1.20 | 8.91 |  1.28 | 5.45 |  0.37 | 3.24 | New | 3.14 | New | 2.12 |  3.43
Aetolia-Akarnania | 40.95 |  10.24 | 33.89 |  1.23 | 10.24 |  1.75 | 4.93 |  1.12 | 1.69 | New | 2.13 | New | 2.74 |  4.26
Argolis | 43.43 |  9.71 | 24.99 |  4.52 | 14.84 |  5.25 | 3.56 |  0.68 | 3.25 | New | 3.12 | New | 2.68 |  5.87
Arkadia | 42.56 |  8.75 | 30.14 |  0.53 | 10.81 |  0.90 | 4.54 |  0.36 | 2.75 | New | 2.67 | New | 2.58 |  4.17
Arta | 38.99 |  8.22 | 39.94 |  0.82 | 8.44 |  1.36 | 4.83 |  0.89 | 1.43 | New | 1.98 | New | 1.50 |  2.71
Athens A | 42.32 |  11.20 | 31.29 |  0.26 | 5.16 |  0.48 | 6.37 |  0.54 | 2.58 | New | 3.84 | New | 3.09 |  3.82
Athens B1 | 45.81 |  13.04 | 28.22 |  2.88 | 5.59 |  0.98 | 6.19 |  0.50 | 2.54 | New | 4.15 | New | 2.00 |  2.84
Athens B2 | 29.69 |  10.05 | 38.60 |  2.58 | 6.00 |  1.52 | 8.65 |  0.14 | 3.51 | New | 4.28 | New | 3.16 |  3.82
Athens B3 | 39.49 |  12.30 | 32.03 |  3.29 | 5.72 |  0.95 | 7.13 |  0.37 | 2.99 | New | 4.44 | New | 2.42 |  3.14
East Attica | 43.13 |  14.11 | 29.60 |  5.42 | 5.03 |  1.00 | 4.96 |  0.11 | 4.85 | New | 3.87 | New | 3.16 |  4.64
West Attica | 34.28 |  12.88 | 36.24 |  4.56 | 5.24 |  1.01 | 5.93 |  0.17 | 5.24 | New | 3.20 | New | 4.62 |  6.70
Boeotia | 36.25 |  12.95 | 32.27 |  5.42 | 9.70 |  3.04 | 7.01 |  0.01 | 3.39 | New | 3.41 | New | 3.23 |  4.47
Cephalonia | 37.94 |  10.39 | 32.45 |  1.50 | 5.82 |  0.07 | 9.52 |  0.60 | 2.49 | New | 3.45 | New | 2.99 |  4.39
Chalkidiki | 42.59 |  9.30 | 24.32 |  8.58 | 10.37 |  3.31 | 3.14 |  0.15 | 4.33 | New | 3.81 | New | 5.26 |  1.96
Chania | 34.05 |  14.65 | 37.35 |  4.32 | 6.54 |  0.03 | 5.02 |  0.43 | 3.13 | New | 4.85 | New | 2.45 |  3.67
Chios | 45.65 |  13.07 | 22.14 |  5.77 | 14.94 |  1.83 | 4.78 |  0.25 | 2.43 | New | 2.89 | New | 2.98 |  2.84
Corfu | 35.14 |  12.95 | 34.41 |  6.18 | 7.50 |  1.81 | 6.99 |  0.07 | 2.40 | New | 4.84 | New | 3.18 |  4.37
Corinthia | 41.80 |  12.15 | 30.73 |  4.31 | 8.47 |  1.51 | 2.80 |  0.29 | 4.11 | New | 3.68 | New | 3.41 |  5.25
Cyclades | 43.55 |  12.27 | 28.32 |  5.36 | 8.52 |  1.68 | 4.20 |  0.24 | 2.88 | New | 4.10 | New | 2.78 |  3.41
Dodecanese | 41.28 |  13.15 | 29.73 |  4.81 | 10.37 |  0.88 | 3.20 |  0.20 | 3.87 | New | 3.01 | New | 3.69 |  4.36
Drama | 43.90 |  12.03 | 22.72 |  7.00 | 12.31 |  3.76 | 2.78 |  0.32 | 6.70 | New | 3.10 | New | 2.96 |  4.13
Elis | 36.03 |  9.11 | 34.82 |  2.49 | 14.79 |  4.04 | 3.62 |  1.00 | 2.88 | New | 2.21 | New | 2.40 |  5.19
Euboea | 36.61 |  12.64 | 34.91 |  5.03 | 8.53 |  2.00 | 4.98 |  0.41 | 4.16 | New | 3.14 | New | 2.64 |  5.29
Evros | 44.99 |  11.29 | 27.55 |  4.32 | 8.17 |  1.34 | 2.95 |  0.01 | 5.86 | New | 2.39 | New | 3.52 |  5.19
Evrytania | 48.87 |  14.54 | 29.54 |  3.93 | 9.94 |  0.34 | 2.79 |  0.15 | 2.14 | New | 1.84 | New | 1.61 |  3.09
Florina | 39.02 |  8.74 | 35.51 |  2.33 | 6.24 |  0.13 | 3.07 |  1.24 | 7.27 | New | 2.78 | New | 2.37 |  4.37
Grevena | 43.16 |  11.01 | 29.49 |  5.02 | 9.89 |  0.53 | 5.82 |  0.42 | 2.74 | New | 2.32 | New | 2.87 |  2.74
Imathia | 41.92 |  14.36 | 26.98 |  7.30 | 8.24 |  1.41 | 4.68 |  0.46 | 5.63 | New | 3.06 | New | 4.04 |  5.22
Ioannina | 37.42 |  9.09 | 36.30 |  3.22 | 9.53 |  2.17 | 4.99 |  0.51 | 2.34 | New | 2.79 | New | 1.94 |  2.81
Heraklion | 30.15 |  9.82 | 43.22 |  1.99 | 11.38 |  1.66 | 3.57 |  0.67 | 2.18 | New | 4.03 | New | 1.51 |  2.43
Karditsa | 44.91 |  14.06 | 30.45 |  5.29 | 9.42 |  2.26 | 5.60 |  0.88 | 2.49 | New | 1.87 | New | 2.29 |  5.05
Kastoria | 50.23 |  13.29 | 27.10 |  1.86 | 7.00 |  0.96 | 2.53 |  0.54 | 2.73 | New | 2.98 | New | 2.98 |  5.58
Kavala | 42.55 |  11.50 | 26.20 |  6.20 | 8.48 |  1.53 | 4.18 |  0.18 | 5.86 | New | 3.13 | New | 3.35 |  4.45
Kilkis | 42.35 |  9.94 | 23.22 |  7.67 | 11.21 |  4.15 | 5.05 |  0.93 | 5.16 | New | 2.70 | New | 5.24 |  4.23
Kozani | 39.39 |  11.50 | 31.39 |  2.47 | 10.30 |  2.52 | 4.64 |  0.79 | 4.01 | New | 2.96 | New | 2.54 |  3.66
Laconia | 49.91 |  12.37 | 19.63 |  3.44 | 14.39 |  1.98 | 3.57 |  0.53 | 3.19 | New | 2.01 | New | 3.64 |  7.80
Larissa | 39.30 |  11.31 | 31.25 |  3.68 | 8.79 |  2.54 | 6.25 |  1.00 | 4.34 | New | 2.81 | New | 2.82 |  4.23
Lasithi | 34.32 |  8.34 | 34.57 |  4.62 | 15.40 |  4.06 | 2.93 |  0.33 | 2.64 | New | 3.08 | New | 1.52 |  2.43
Lefkada | 44.37 |  12.37 | 28.19 |  2.49 | 9.60 |  1.73 | 8.16 |  2.32 | 1.30 | New | 2.81 | New | 1.83 |  3.44
Lesbos | 38.99 |  10.44 | 29.01 |  0.01 | 8.57 |  0.88 | 10.04 |  0.64 | 2.62 | New | 2.25 | New | 3.48 |  4.30
Magnesia | 38.76 |  12.58 | 32.16 |  3.90 | 6.58 |  1.79 | 5.33 |  0.91 | 4.34 | New | 3.78 | New | 3.89 |  4.57
Messenia | 44.37 |  8.91 | 30.66 |  0.16 | 6.85 |  0.91 | 4.69 |  0.74 | 3.35 | New | 3.02 | New | 2.86 |  5.24
Pella | 42.29 |  10.74 | 28.52 |  4.74 | 9.31 |  2.62 | 2.59 |  1.06 | 5.60 | New | 2.50 | New | 3.59 |  5.83
Phocis | 44.75 |  12.59 | 29.16 |  3.82 | 7.35 |  0.81 | 6.04 |  0.20 | 3.01 | New | 3.00 | New | 2.62 |  4.48
Phthiotis | 43.79 |  12.74 | 31.64 |  2.98 | 7.59 |  0.86 | 4.38 |  0.40 | 3.19 | New | 2.58 | New | 2.82 |  4.95
Pieria | 47.45 |  14.77 | 23.33 |  9.10 | 8.52 |  1.90 | 3.98 |  0.47 | 5.73 | New | 2.78 | New | 3.21 |  4.22
Piraeus A | 43.73 |  14.28 | 29.72 |  3.91 | 4.94 |  0.54 | 5.51 |  0.37 | 3.39 | New | 3.88 | New | 3.18 |  4.64
Piraeus B | 30.19 |  11.87 | 38.22 |  3.80 | 5.09 |  1.07 | 8.02 |  0.08 | 4.20 | New | 4.40 | New | 3.69 |  4.71
Preveza | 43.47 |  11.02 | 34.38 |  1.07 | 8.25 |  0.23 | 5.49 |  1.27 | 1.39 | New | 2.07 | New | 1.65 |  3.43
Rethymno | 36.55 |  9.18 | 36.99 |  1.14 | 9.82 |  0.49 | 3.33 |  0.04 | 2.30 | New | 3.45 | New | 1.72 |  2.32
Rhodope | 37.84 |  15.10 | 27.17 |  12.18 | 21.94 |  17.38 | 4.25 |  2.17 | 2.57 | New | 1.38 | New | 2.17 |  3.29
Samos | 34.13 |  11.65 | 29.08 |  1.93 | 6.85 |  0.79 | 14.47 |  1.67 | 3.30 | New | 2.81 | New | 3.55 |  4.11
Serres | 48.04 |  12.83 | 23.25 |  5.83 | 8.68 |  1.68 | 3.41 |  0.23 | 6.11 | New | 3.13 | New | 2.94 |  4.97
Thesprotia | 41.14 |  9.75 | 31.54 |  5.58 | 13.28 |  4.12 | 3.73 |  0.71 | 1.81 | New | 2.50 | New | 1.61 |  3.11
Thessaloniki A | 35.52 |  10.23 | 31.31 |  4.50 | 6.05 |  1.73 | 5.30 |  0.01 | 5.39 | New | 4.76 | New | 3.92 |  3.35
Thessaloniki B | 43.02 |  13.52 | 25.14 |  7.74 | 6.65 |  1.91 | 4.61 |  0.20 | 5.65 | New | 4.06 | New | 4.20 |  4.24
Trikala | 44.40 |  13.59 | 29.54 |  6.26 | 9.71 |  2.37 | 6.07 |  1.04 | 2.85 | New | 2.05 | New | 1.82 |  3.83
Xanthi | 36.78 |  12.95 | 39.60 |  10.01 | 8.78 |  4.68 | 2.19 |  0.45 | 3.44 | New | 2.35 | New | 2.62 |  2.97
Zakynthos | 41.91 |  14.40 | 31.44 |  4.72 | 5.37 |  1.09 | 9.04 |  1.16 | 2.21 | New | 3.32 | New | 2.36 |  4.37

## See also

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* List of members of the Hellenic Parliament, 2019

## Notes

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1. ^ Compared to DISY

## References

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