New Democracy sweeping win in 58 of 59 districts in Greece; over 20-point difference with SYRIZA
Greek Prime Minister and leader of New Democracy political party, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, greets supporters after the announcement of the first results of the Greek general elections, at the headquarter’s party, in Athens. EPA/GEORGE VITSARAS
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Sunday’s national elections in Greece resulted in a sweeping victory for ruling New Democracy and unexpected low results for main opposition SYRIZA-Progressive Alliance, which lost all but one of 59 electoral regions in Greece.
With 99.61% of the votes counted, the following percentages were recorded, according to the Interior Ministry’s live update through its online site (https://ekloges.ypes.gr/current/v/home/en/), with party leaders in parentheses:
New Democracy (Kyriakos Mitsotakis): 40.79% and 146 seats
SYRIZA-Progressive Alliance (Alexis Tsipras): 20.07% and 71 seats
PASOK-KINAL (Nikos Androulakis): 11.46% and 41 seats
Communist Party of Greece (Dimitris Koutsoubas): 7.23% and 26 seats
Greek Solution (Kyriakos Velopoulos): 4.45% and 16 seats
Yanis Varoufakis’ party MeRA25 with 2.59% did not make the 3% threshold to enter Parliament, along with Niki (Dimitris Natsios, 2.92%) and Plefsi Eleftherias (Zoi Konstantopoulou, former Parliament speaker, 2.87%).
Voter turnout was 60.73%, parties that did not make it into Parliament account for 15.96% of votes, and invalid or blank votes totaled 2.61%.
Source: ANA-MPA
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