Greek legislative election, 2000

Greek Parliamentary election, 2000

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Distribution of parliament seats after the 2000 elections (Results).
Panhellenic Socialist Movement: 158 seats      New Democracy: 125 seats      Communist Party of Greece: 11 seats      Coalition of the Left and Progress: 6 seats
Date	9 April 2000
Previous prime minister	Kostas Simitis
Next prime minister	Kostas Simitis holding position

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Legislative elections were held in the Hellenic Republic on 9 April 2000. At stake were 300 seats in the Greek parliament, the Voule.

The ruling Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK) of Prime Minister Costas Simitis was narrowly re-elected, defeating the conservative New Democracy party.

Results

Summary of the 9 April 2000 Greek Parliament election results			Votes			Seats
			No.	%	+− %	No.	+−
	Panhellenic Socialist Movement	Costas Simitis	3,007,596	43.79	+2.3	158	−4
	New Democracy	Costas Karamanlis	2,935,196	42.74	+4.62	125	+17
	Communist Party of Greece	Aleka Papariga	379,454	5.52	-0.09	11	+0
	Coalition of the Left and Progress	Nikos Konstantopoulos	219,880	3.20	-1.92	6	-4
	Democratic Social Movement	Dimitris Tsovolas	184,598	2.69	-1.74	0	-8
	Democratic Regional Union	Mihalis Haralambidis	32,068	0.47	-	0	-
	Union of Centrists	Vassilis Leventis	23,228	0.34	-0.38	0	+0
	Union of Ecologists	Dimosthenis Vergis	20,466	0.30	0.01	0	-
	National Coalition Εθνική Συμμαχία	Grigoris Mihalopoulos	14,703	0.21	-	0	-
	Front Line	Konstantinos Plevris	12,125	0.18	-	0	-
	Radical Left Front		8,132	0.12	-0.03	0	-
	Communist Party of Greece (Marxist-Leninist)		7,301	0.11	-	0	-
	Party of Hellenism	Sotiris Sofianopoulos	6,272	0.09	-0.09	0	-
	Marxist-Leninist Communist Party of Greece		5,866	0.09	+0.03	0	+0
	Alternative Ecologists		3,321	0.05	-0.03	0	-
	Liberal Party	Manolis Kalligiannis	2,091	0.03	-	0	-
	Militant Socialist Party of Greece		2,026	0.03	+0	0	+0
	Autonomous Movement Workers Politics Αυτόνομο Κίνημα Εργατικής Πολιτικής	Antonios Halaris	1,145	0.02	+0	0	+0
	Organization for the Reconstruction of the Communist Party of Greece		1,126	0.02	+0	0	+0
	Others - Independent candidates		923	0.01		0	-
	Hristopistia Χριστοπιστία		305	0.00		0	-
	Greek Workers' Party Κόμμα Εργαζομένων Ελλήνων, ΚΟ.Ε.ΕΛ.		169	0.00		0	-
	National Patriotic Party Εθνικό Πατριωτικό Κόμμα, Ε.Π.Α.Κ.		22	0.00		0	-
	Olympismos Ολυμπισμός		14	0.00		0	-
	Panhellenic Democratic Party Peace ΠΑ.ΔΗ.ΚΕ.		4	0.00		0	-
No. of valid votes			6,868,011	100,00		300
Invalid votes			158,516
Total			7,026,527 (74.96%)
Source: Official results from Greek Interior Ministry

Greek electoral law requires that the party winning a plurity of votes be awarded a majority of seats in the Voule. This involves some distortion of the proportionality of the result. Parties must poll 3% of the national vote to gain representation.

See also

• Politics of Greece

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