1950 Greek legislative election

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5 March 1950

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All 250 seats in the Hellenic Parliament
126 seats needed for a majority

	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	Konstantinos Tsaldaris	Sofoklis Venizelos	Nikolaos Plastiras
Party	People's Party	Liberal	EPEK
Seats won	62	56	45
Popular vote	317,312	291,083	277,739
Percentage	18.79%	17.24%	16.45%

	Fourth party	Fifth party	Sixth party

Leader	Georgios Papandreou	Alexandros Svolos	Konstantinos Maniadakis
Party	KGP	DP	PAP
Seats won	35	18	16
Popular vote	180,185	163,824	137,618
Percentage	10.67%	9.70%	8.15%

Prime Minister before election

Alexandros Diomidis
Liberal

Prime Minister after election

Sofoklis Venizelos
Liberal

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Parliamentary elections were held in Greece on 5 March 1950.^[1] The People's Party emerged as the largest party in Parliament, winning 62 of the 250 seats.^[2]

Results


Party		Votes	%	Seats
	People's Party	317,312	18.79	62
	Liberal Party	291,083	17.24	56
	National Progressive Center Union^[a]	277,739	16.45	45
	Georgios Papandreou Party	180,185	10.67	35
	Democratic Alignment	163,824	9.70	18
	Politically Independent Alignment	137,618	8.15	16
	National Reconstruction Front	88,979	5.27	7
	National Party of Greece	61,575	3.65	7
	Party of Farmers and Labourers	44,308	2.62	3
	New Party	42,157	2.50	1
	National Party of Working People	26,925	1.59	0
	Party for the National Union	14,256	0.84	0
	Greek Working People's Party	9,132	0.54	0
	National Resistance Party of Greece	8,260	0.49	0
	Party Alliance of Greek Workers and Political Refresh Movement	8,127	0.48	0
	Independent Liberal Party	3,087	0.18	0
	List of Independents	2,979	0.18	0
	Agricultural Party	2,191	0.13	0
	Christian Labour Agricultural Party	1,027	0.06	0
	Christian Political Union	429	0.03	0
	Greek Drivers' Party	157	0.01	0
	Independent Farmer Party	146	0.01	0
	National Independent Party of War Wounded and Victims of Greece	145	0.01	0
	Labour-Professional Party of Greece	97	0.01	0
	Independent Agricultural Party of Greek People	63	0.00	0
	Professional and Industrial Party of Greece	42	0.00	0
	National Byzantine Party of Greece	20	0.00	0
	Independents	6,742	0.40	0
Total		1,688,605	100.00	250

Valid votes		1,688,605	99.57
Invalid/blank votes		7,223	0.43
Total votes		1,695,828	100.00
Source: Nohlen & Stöver

^ Of the 45 seats won by the alliance, the Progressive Liberal Centre Party won 23, the Democratic Progressive Party won 13 and the alliance 9.^[3]

References

^ Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p830 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
^ Nohlen & Stöver, p860
^ Hellenic Parliament

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