Greek legislative election, 1996

22 September 1996

All 300 seats to the Hellenic Parliament 151 seats were needed for a majority

	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	Costas Simitis	Miltiadis Evert	Aleka Papariga
Party	PASOK	ND	KKE
Leader since	30 June 1996	1993	1991
Last election	170 seats, 46.88%	111 seats, 39.30%	9 seats, 4.54%
Seats won	162	108	11
Seat change	-8	-3	+2
Popular vote	2,813,245	2,584,765	380,167
Percentage	41.49%	38.12%	5.61%
Swing	-5.2%	-1.2%	+1.11%

	Fourth party	Fifth party

Leader	Nikos Konstantopoulos	Dimitris Tsovolas
Party	Synaspismos	DIKKI
Leader since	1993	1993
Last election	0 seats, 2.94%%	n/a
Seats won	10	10
Seat change	+10	+10
Popular vote	347,051	300,617
Percentage	5.12%	4.43%
Swing	+2.18%	n/a

Prime Minister before election

Costas Simitis
PASOK

Subsequent Prime Minister

Costas Simitis
PASOK

Distribution of parliament seats after the 1996 elections (Results).

New Democracy: 108 seats

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Parliamentary elections were held in Greece on 22 September 1996.^[1] The ruling Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK) of Costas Simitis was re-elected, defeating the liberal-conservative New Democracy party of Miltiadis Evert.

Results

Party	Votes	%	Seats	+/–
Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK)	2,814,779	41.5	162	–8
New Democracy (ND)	2,586,089	38.1	108	–3
Communist Party of Greece (KKE)	380,046	5.6	11	+2
Left and Progress Coalition (SYN)	347,236	5.1	10	+10
Democratic Social Movement (DIKKI)	300,954	4.4	9	New
Political Spring	199,686	2.9	0	–10
Union of Centrists	48,659	0.7	0	0
Union of Ecologists	19,931	0.3	0	0
Party of Greek Hunters	17,472	0.3	0	0
National Party-National Political Union	16,495	0.2	0	0
Party of Hellenism	12,216	0.2	0	New
Left Struggle	10,416	0.2	0	0
Alternative Ecologists	5,708	0.1	0	New
Golden Dawn (XA)	4,537	0.1	0	New
Ecologists Greece	4,138	0.1	0	0
Marxist–Leninist Communist Party of Greece (M-L KKE)	4,019	0.1	0	New
Organization for the Reconstruction of the Communist Party of Greece (OAKKE)	3,534	0.1	0	0
Pensioners-Labourers-Farmers-Youth Alliance	2,519	0.0	0	New
Fighting Socialist Party of Greece (ASKE)	2,113	0.0	0	0
Olympic Party	1,614	0.0	0	0
Party of Greek Workers	238	0.0	0	New
Greek Orthodox National Popular Revolutionary Party	163	0.0	0	New
Christian Faith	71	0.0	0	0
Free Democracy	64	0.0	0	New
Hellenic White Movement of Contemporary Ideology	49	0.0	0	0
Panhellenic Orthodox Democratic Movement	42	0.0	0	New
Labour Class	31	0.0	0	New
Human Rights Party	12	0.0	0	0
Party of Responsible Citizens	2	0.0	0	0
Hellenic European Party	1	0.0	0	0
Independents	611	0.0	0	0
Invalid/blank votes	198,759	–	–	–
Total	6,982,204	100	300	0
Registered voters/turnout	9,145,598	76.3	–	–
Source: Nohlen & Stöver

↑ Nohlen, D & Stöver, P (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p830 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7

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