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05
2023
POLITICS / ELECTIONS

Final count of May 21st election results announced

The Hellenic Interior Ministry has announced the completion of the counting of ballots from all polling stations in last Sunday’s general election.
The Hellenic Interior Ministry has announced the completion of the counting of ballots from all polling stations in last Sunday’s general election.

The final results of percentages, parliamentary seats and number of votes for each party are as follows:

New Democracy: 40.79%, 146 seats, 2,407,860 votes
Syriza-Progressive Alliance: 20.07%, 71 seats, 1,184,500 votes
Pasok-Movement For Change: 11.46%, 41 seats, 676,166 votes
Communist Party of Greece (KKE): 7.23%, 26 seats, 426,741 votes
Greek Solution: 4.45%, 16 seats, 262,529 votes

The parties that could not elect an MP account for 16.01% of votes, while the three parties that came close to passing the 3% threshold to enter parliament fared as follows:

Νiki: 2.92%, 172,208 votes
Plefsi Eleftherias: 2.89%, 170,298 votes
MeRA25: 2.63%, 155,085 votes

Parties also registered the following changes in their electoral performance compared to the 2019 national elections:

New Democracy: +0.94%
SYRIZA-Progressive Alliance: -11.46%
PASOK-Movement For Change: +3.35%
Communist Party of Greece (KKE): +1.93%
Greek Solution: +0.74%
Plefsi Eleftherias: +1.42%
MeRA25: -0.82%

The number of people registered in electoral lists totals 9,946,082. Of these, 6,061,098 voted on May 21, a 60.94% participation rate. 

Valid ballots numbered 5,902,850 (97.36%), void ones 123,488 (2.04%) and blank ones 34,760 (0.57%).