1926 Greek legislative election

1926 Greek legislative election

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All 286 seats in the Hellenic Parliament
144 seats needed for a majority
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Georgios Kafantaris Panagis Tsaldaris Ioannis Metaxas
Party Liberal People's Party KE
Last election 250 seats
Seats won 108 60 52
Seat change Decrease 142 New New
Popular vote 303,140 194,243 151,044

  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 
Leader Alexandros Papanastasiou Collective Leadership
Party DE EMEAP AKE
Last election 120 seats
Seats won 17 10 4
Seat change Decrease 103 New New
Popular vote 62,086 41,982 28,318
Percentage 6.79%

Prime Minister before election

Georgios Kondylis
DE

Prime Minister after election

Alexandros Zaimis
Independent

Parliamentary elections were held in Greece on 7 November 1926.[1] The Liberal Union emerged as the largest faction in Parliament with 108 of the 286 seats.[2] The composition of the new parliament meant that the parties and factions had to work together to form a viable parliamentary government. On Kafandaris' initiative, negotiations began among the main parties, leading to the swearing-in on the 4 December of a government under the premiership of Alexandros Zaimis who was not a member of parliament. The coalition consisted of the Liberal Union, the Democratic Union, the People's Party and the Freethinkers' Party. This government came to be known as the "Ecumenical government".

Results

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PartyVotes%Seats
Liberal Union303,14033.13108
People's Party194,24321.2360
Freethinkers' Party151,04416.5152
Democratic Union62,0866.7917
United Electoral Front of Workers, Farmers and Refugees41,9824.5910
Agrarian Party of Greece28,3183.104
Party of Independents and Refugees17,4101.902
Liaison of United Anti-Venizelists14,0881.544
Liberal Refugee Party13,7981.514
Conservative Union12,6611.383
Provincial Party9,7281.062
Co-operation Agricultural Party8,5300.933
Party of Democratic Liberals7,4750.823
Liaison of Independent Democrat-Venizelists5,9420.653
Hebrew Political Union5,8460.642
Liaison of Independent Liberals5,8460.641
Liaison of Moderate Conservatives5,4630.601
Liaison of Independent Anti-Venizelists5,3670.591
Agricultural Refugee Liaison5,0790.561
Macedonian OMAS Liaison5,0790.562
National Believers Popular Party4,8880.531
Liaison of Independents (Trikala Prefecture)3,4500.381
Liaison of Popular-Free Believers3,4500.381
Total914,913100.00286
Valid votes958,39299.59
Invalid/blank votes3,9120.41
Total votes962,304100.00
Registered voters/turnout1,567,37861.40
Source: Nohlen & Stöver[a]

Notes

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  1. ^ Although the total votes for parties winning seats comes to 914,913, the Electoral Committees reported a total of 958,392 valid votes being cast.[3]

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, p857
  3. ^ Nohlen & Stöver, p840