May 2023 Greek legislative election

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May 2023 Greek legislative election

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All 300 seats in the Hellenic Parliament 151 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
Registered	9,946,082
Turnout	61.76% (3.98pp)
First party Second party Third party   Leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis Alexis Tsipras Nikos Androulakis Party ND Syriza PASOK–KINAL Last election 39.85%, 158 seats 31.53%, 86 seats 8.10%, 22 seats Seats won 146 71 41 Seat change 12 15 19 Popular vote 2,407,750 1,184,621 676,165 Percentage 40.79% 20.07% 11.46% Swing 0.94pp 11.46pp 3.36pp   Fourth party Fifth party   Leader Dimitris Koutsoumpas Kyriakos Velopoulos Party KKE EL Last election 5.30%, 15 seats 3.70%, 10 seats Seats won 26 16 Seat change 11 6 Popular vote 426,628 262,498 Percentage 7.23% 4.45% Swing 1.93pp 0.75pp
Results by constituency
Prime Minister before election Kyriakos Mitsotakis ND Prime Minister after election Ioannis Sarmas Caretaker

Snap parliamentary elections were held in Greece on 21 May 2023.^[1][2][3] All 300 seats in the Hellenic Parliament were contested. They were the first elections since 1990 not to be held under a bonus seats system, due to amendments to the electoral law made in 2016. Instead, a purely proportional system was used.^[4]

The New Democracy of Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis achieved an unexpected victory defying the opinion polls,^[5] while Mitsotakis' political opponents alleged fraud.^[6][7] As the election did not result in any party gaining a majority, and no coalition government was formed by any of the parties eligible to do so, Mitsotakis called for another snap election in June.^[8][9][10] On 24 May 2023, as required by Greece's constitution, President Katerina Sakellaropoulou appointed Ioannis Sarmas to be the caretaker prime minister for the interim.^[11]