1933 Greek legislative election

Parliamentary elections were held in Greece on 5 March 1933.[1] The pro-monarchist People's Party emerged as the largest party, winning 118 of the 248 seats in Parliament, ending the predominance of Eleftherios Venizelos' Liberal Party. The results triggered an attempted coup by Venizelist officers. A military emergency government under Alexandros Othonaios was instituted which suppressed the revolt, and was succeeded by a People's Party cabinet under Panagis Tsaldaris on 10 March.[2]

1933 Greek legislative election

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All 248 seats in the Vouli
125 seats needed for a majority
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Panagis Tsaldaris Eleftherios Venizelos Alexandros Papanastasiou
Party People's Party Liberal AEK
Last election 33.80%, 95 seats 33.42%, 98 seats 5.89%, 8 seats
Seats won 118 80 13
Seat change Increase 23 Decrease 18 Increase 5
Popular vote 434,550 379,968 47,460
Percentage 38.07% 33.29% 4.16%
Swing Increase4.27pp Decrease0.13pp Decrease1.73pp

  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 
Leader Georgios Kondylis Georgios Kafantaris Ioannis Metaxas
Party ERK Progressive KE
Last election 4.07%, 5 seats 8.35%, 14 seats 1.59%, 2 seats
Seats won 11 10 6
Seat change Increase 6 Decrease 4 Increase 4
Popular vote 46,692 77,254 25,758
Percentage 4.09% 6.77% 2.26%
Swing Increase0.02pp Decrease1.57pp Increase0.67pp

Prime Minister before election

Eleftherios Venizelos
Liberal

Prime Minister after election

Panagis Tsaldaris
People's Party

Results

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PartyVotes%Seats+/–
People's Party434,55038.07118+23
Liberal Party379,96833.2980–18
Progressive Party77,2546.7710–4
Communist Party of Greece52,9584.640–13
Agricultural and Labour Party47,4604.1613+5
National Radical Party46,6924.0911+6
Freethinkers' Party25,7582.266+4
Independent Party22,9852.012New
Farmers' Party20,2001.771–12
National Alliance14,3021.255New
Conservative Democratic Party9,6720.852+2
Independents9,5320.8400
Total1,141,331100.00248–2
Valid votes1,141,33199.51
Invalid/blank votes5,6120.49
Total votes1,146,943100.00
Source: Nohlen & Stöver

References

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  1. ^ Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p830 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
  2. ^ Nohlen & Stöver, p869