2007 Greek legislative election

2007 Greek legislative election

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All 300 seats in the Hellenic Parliament 151 seats needed for a majority
First party Second party Third party   Leader Kostas Karamanlis George Papandreou Aleka Papariga Party ND PASOK KKE Last election 45.36%, 165 seats 40.55%, 117 seats 5.90%, 12 seats Seats won 152 102 22 Seat change 13 15 10 Popular vote 2,994,979 2,727,279 583,815 Percentage 41.84% 38.10% 8.15% Swing 3.52pp 2.45pp 2.25pp   Fourth party Fifth party   Leader Alekos Alavanos Georgios Karatzaferis Party Syriza LAOS Last election 3.26%, 6 seats 2.19%, 0 seats Seats won 14 10 Seat change 8 10 Popular vote 361,211 271,764 Percentage 5.04% 3.80% Swing 1.77pp 1.61pp
Map of electoral districts, showing the largest party by share of votes. Darker shades indicate stronger vote share.
Prime Minister before election Kostas Karamanlis ND Prime Minister after election Kostas Karamanlis ND

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Parliamentary elections were held in Greece on Sunday, 16 September 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 42%, followed by George Papandreou and PASOK with 38%. New Democracy managed to secure an absolute but narrow majority of 152 out of 300 seats in parliament. 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 Syriza, enjoyed a significant increase in their vote share. KKE received 8% of the votes (up from 6%) and won 22 seats (from 12), while Syriza received 5% of the votes (up 2pp) 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.^[1]