2007 Greek legislative election

Greek legislative election, 2007

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All 300 seats to the Hellenic Parliament 151 seats were needed for a majority
First party Second party Third party   Leader Kostas Karamanlis George Papandreou Aleka Papariga Party ND PASOK KKE Leader since 21 March 1997 8 February 2004 1991 Last election 165 seats, 45.4% 117 seats, 40.5% 12 seats, 5.9% Seats won 152 102 22 Seat change 13 15 10 Popular vote 2,995,479 2,727,853 583,815 Percentage 41.83% 38.1% 8.15% Swing -3.57% -2.4% +2.25%   Fourth party Fifth party   Leader Alekos Alavanos Georgios Karatzaferis Party SYRIZA LAOS Leader since 2004 14 September 2000 Last election 6 seats, 3.3% 0 seats, 2.2% Seats won 14 10 Seat change 8 10 Popular vote 361,211 271,764 Percentage 5.04% 3.80% Swing +1.78% +1.61
Prime Minister before election Kostas Karamanlis ND Subsequent Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis ND

Greek Parliamentary election, 2007

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Distribution of parliament seats after the 2007 elections (Results).
New Democracy: 152 seats   Panhellenic Socialist Movement: 102 seats   Communist Party of Greece: 22 seats   Coalition of the Radical Left: 14 seats   Popular Orthodox Rally: 10 seats
Date	September 16, 2007
Previous prime minister	Kostas Karamanlis
Next prime minister	Kostas Karamanlis (holding position)

Kostas Karamanlis
ND

Kostas Karamanlis
ND

Parliamentary elections were held in Greece on Sunday, September 16, 2007, to elect the 300 members of the Hellenic Parliament. The leading party for a second term was New Democracy under the leadership of Kostas Karamanlis with 41.83%, followed by George Papandreou and Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK) with 38.10%. New Democracy managed to secure an absolute but narrow majority of 152 out of 300 parliament seats. The populist Popular Orthodox Rally entered the parliament for the first time with 10 seats, while the parties of the left, the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) and the Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA), enjoyed a significant increase in their votes. KKE got 8.15% of the votes (from 5.89) and secured 22 parliament seats (from 12) and SYRIZA got 5.04% of the votes (+1.78%) and 14 seats.

The difference of nearly four percentage points between the first two parties resulted in George Papandreou announcing that he would seek reaffirmation of his party leadership, with Evangelos Venizelos and Kostas Skandalidis also declaring candidacy for the post.

There were concerns that the election could return a hung parliament, mainly due to the recently revised Greek electoral law. Although it preserved the 3% threshold necessary for a party to enter parliament, it decreased the number of seats automatically awarded to the leading party. Parliamentary majority was considered more difficult, especially after the early projection that five parties would cross this threshold for the first time after the metapolitefsi.

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