Greek legislative election, September 2015

Greek legislative election, September 2015

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All 300 seats of the Hellenic Parliament 151 seats needed for a majority Opinion polls Registered 9,840,525 1.1% Turnout 5,566,295 (56.6%) 7.0 pp   First party Second party Third party   Leader Alexis Tsipras Vangelis Meimarakis Nikolaos Michaloliakos Party SYRIZA ND ΧΑ Leader since 9 February 2008 5 July 2015 1 November 1993 Leader's seat Heraklion Athens B Athens A Last election 149 seats, 36.3% 76 seats, 27.8% 17 seats, 6.3% Seats won 145 75 18 Seat change 4 1 1 Popular vote 1,925,904 1,526,205 379,581 Percentage 35.5% 28.1% 7.0% Swing 0.8 pp 0.3 pp 0.7 pp   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Leader Fofi Gennimata Dimitris Koutsoumpas Stavros Theodorakis Party PASOK–DIMAR KKE Potami Leader since 14 June 2015 14 April 2013 26 February 2014 Leader's seat Athens B Athens B Thessaloniki A Last election 13 seats, 5.2% 15 seats, 5.5% 17 seats, 6.1% Seats won 17 15 11 Seat change 4 ±0 6 Popular vote 341,390 301,632 222,166 Percentage 6.3% 5.6% 4.1% Swing 1.1 pp 0.1 pp 2.0 pp   Seventh party Eighth party   Leader Panos Kammenos Vassilis Leventis Party ANEL EK Leader since 24 February 2012 2 March 1992 Leader's seat Athens B Athens B Last election 13 seats, 4.8% 0 seats, 1.8% Seats won 10 9 Seat change 3 9 Popular vote 200,423 186,457 Percentage 3.7% 3.4% Swing 1.1 pp 1.6 pp

Electoral districts won by ■ – Coalition of the Radical Left ■ – New Democracy

Prime Minister before election Vassiliki Thanou (interim) Independent Elected Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras SYRIZA

■ – Coalition of the Radical Left ■ – New Democracy

Vassiliki Thanou (interim)
Independent

Alexis Tsipras
SYRIZA

The September 2015 Greek legislative election was held in Greece on Sunday, 20 September, following Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras' announced resignation on 20 August. At stake were all 300 seats in the Hellenic Parliament. This was a snap election, the fourth since 2009, since new elections were not due until February 2019.

The election resulted in an unexpectedly-large victory for Alexis Tsipras' Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA), which fell 6 seats short of an absolute majority and was able to reform its coalition government with the right-wing Independent Greeks (ANEL). Opposition center-right New Democracy (ND) remained stagnant at 28% and 75 seats, despite pre-election opinion polls predicting a tie with Syriza or even opening the possibility of a ND government. Far-right Golden Dawn (XA) remained the third political force in the country rising slightly to 7%, while the PASOK-DIMAR Democratic Coalition rose to 4th place nationally, as a result of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) failure to increase its vote tally and Potami's collapse. The centrist EK entered Parliament for the first time in history, while Syriza-splinter group Popular Unity fell short of the required 3% threshold and did not win parliamentary representation.

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