Athens B

Athens B
Former Electoral constituency
for the Hellenic Parliament
Athens B within Attica
Attica within Greece
Regional unitsCentral Athens, North Athens, South Athens, West Athens
Administrative regionAttica
Electorate1.431.264 (January 2014)
Former Electoral constituency
Created1958
Abolished2018
Number of members44 Members of Parliament
Created fromAthens
Replaced byAthens B1, Athens B2, Athens B3

Athens B (Athens Beta; Greek: Β΄ Αθηνών) was a parliamentary constituency[1] in Attica represented in the Hellenic Parliament. It covered a large part of urban area of Athens outside the Municipality of Athens, which forms the Athens A constituency. It was established in 1958, to separate the working-class districts from central Athens and reduce the electoral power of the then United Democratic Left, and was abolished in 2018.[2]

As of September 2015, with 1.4 million registered voters, Athens B elected 44 Members of Parliament (MPs) by reinforced proportional representation and was the largest constituency in Greece. For this reason it was broken up in December 2018 into Athens B1 (North), Athens B2 (West), and Athens B3 (South).[2]

  1. ^ "MPs Per Constituency (electoral map)". Hellenic Parliament. Retrieved 12 November 2012.
  2. ^ a b Εφημερίδα της Κυβερνήσεως τη Ελληνικής Δημοκρατίας [Government Gazette of the Hellenic Republic] (in Greek), vol. A, Athens: National Publishing House, 31 December 2018, retrieved 12 February 2019