2009 Greek legislative election

2009 Greek legislative election

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All 300 seats in the Hellenic Parliament 151 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
Registered	9,929,065
Turnout	70.95% (3.20pp)
First party Second party Third party   Leader George Papandreou Kostas Karamanlis Aleka Papariga Party PASOK ND KKE Last election 38.10%, 102 seats 41.87%, 152 seats 8.15%, 22 seats Seats won 160 91 21 Seat change 58 61 1 Popular vote 3,012,542 2,295,719 517,249 Percentage 43.92% 33.47% 7.54% Swing 5.82 pp 8.40 pp 0.71 pp   Fourth party Fifth party   Leader Georgios Karatzaferis Alexis Tsipras Party LAOS Syriza Last election 3.80%, 10 seats 5.04%, 14 seats Seats won 15 13 Seat change 5 1 Popular vote 386,205 315,665 Percentage 5.63% 4.60% Swing 1.83 pp 0.44 pp
Results by electoral district
Prime Minister before election Kostas Karamanlis ND Prime Minister after election George Papandreou PASOK

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Early parliamentary elections were held in Greece on 4 October 2009.^[1] Elections were not required until September 2011, but on 2 September 2009 Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis of New Democracy announced that he would request President Karolos Papoulias dissolve Parliament and call elections.^[2] Parliament was dissolved on 9 September.

The result was a victory for the opposition PASOK party led by George Papandreou, who became the new Prime Minister. New Democracy lost 61 of its 152 seats, with its vote share dropping by over 8 percentage points.

Voting was mandatory; however there are no sanctions or penalties for not voting.