1999 European Parliament election in Greece

The European Parliament election of 1999 in Greece for the election of the delegation from Greece to the European Parliament took place on June 13. The election system used in Greece was a party-list proportional representation with a 3% threshold for any party. The number of seats allocated to Greece was 25.

European Parliament election in Greece, 1999

13 June 1999
25 seats to the European Parliament
Majority party Minority party Third party   Leader Kostas Karamanlis Costas Simitis Aleka Papariga Party ND PASOK KKE Last election 32.70% 37.60% 6.29% Seats won 9 9 3 Seat change 0 -1 +1 Percentage 36.00% 32.90% 8.67% Swing +3.3% -4.7% +2.38   Fourth party Fifth party     Leader Dimitris Tsovolas Nikos Konstantopoulos Party DIKKI Coalition of the Left (SYN) Last election Did not contest 6.25% Seats won 2 2 Seat change +2 0 Percentage 6.85% 5.16% Swing +6.85% -1.2%

Results

The 1999 European election was the fifth election to the European Parliament. The opposition conservative New Democracy party made gains as did the Communist Party of Greece, while the ruling Panhellenic Socialist Movement lost ground. Two parties on the left, the relatively new Democratic Social Movement and the Coalition of the Left and Progress elected two MEPs each. Political Spring, which had elected 2 MEPs in 1994, was unsuccessful in passing the 3% threshold and did not elect any members.[1]

Party	Leader	Votes			Seats
		No.	%	+− %	No.	+−
New Democracy	Kostas Karamanlis	2,314,371	36.00	+3.3	9	-
Panhellenic Socialist Movement	Costas Simitis	2,115,844	32.91	-4.7	9	-1
Communist Party of Greece	Aleka Papariga	557,365	8.67	+2.38	3	+1
Democratic Social Movement	Dimitris Tsovolas	440,191	6.85	-	2	-
Coalition of the Left and Progress	Nikos Konstantopoulos	331,928	5.16	-1.2	2	-
Political Spring	Antonis Samaras	146,512	2.28	-6.3	0	-2
The Liberals	Stefanos Manos	103,962	1.62	+1.6	0	-
Party of Greek Hunters	Georgios Aramatzis	64,194	1.00		0	-
Union of Centrists	Vassilis Leventis	52,512	0.82		0	-
Front Line	Konstantinos Plevris	48,532	0.75		0	-
Ecological Greek (Kollatos) Οικολογικό Ελληνικό	Dimitrios Kollatos	48,532	0.75		0	-
Greek Ecologists	Dimosthenis Vergis	30,684	0.48		0	-
Radical Anti-Prohibitory Movement Ριζοσπαστική Αντιαπαγορευτική Κίνηση	Kleanthis Grivas	21,274	0.33		0	-
Marxist-Leninist Communist Party of Greece	Iosif Stavridis	16,782	0.26		0	-
Party of Hellenism	Sotirios Sofianopoulos	16,608	0.26		0	-
Alternative Ecologists (Chatzipanagiotou)	Dimitrios Chatzipanagiotou	14,335	0.22		0	-
Popular Unions of Bipartisan Social Groups (Lefko)	Konstantinos Dalios	14,266	0.22		0	-
Radical Left Front	Dimitrios Desillas	10,884	0.17		0	-
Militant Socialist Party of Greece	Nikolaos Kargopoulos	9,840	0.15		0	-
Socialist Worker's Party	Panos Garganas	8,049	0.13		0	-
Hellenic Front	Makis Voridis	7,693	0.12		0	-
Rainbow	Pavlos Boskopoulos	4,951	0.08		0	-
Organization for the Reconstruction of the Communist Party of Greece	Ilias Zafeiropoulos	4,600	0.07		0	-
Human Rights	Christos Antonopoulos	1,201	0.02		0	-
Alternative Ecologists (Shizas)	Ioannis Shizas	832	0.01		0	-
Others		57,219	0.89		0	-
No. of valid votes		6,429,036	100,00		25	-
Invalid votes		283,648
Total		6,712,684 (70.3%)
Registered voters		9,555,326

Sources: [2][3]

Popular vote ND   36.00% PASOK   32.91% KKE   8.67% DIKKI   6.85% SYN   5.16% POLAN   2.28% OIFIL   1.62% KEK   1.00% EK   0.82% Others   4.70%

References

1. Interior Ministry--Election Results
2. Archivo Histórico Electoral statistics
3. George Th. Mavrogordatos (December 2000). "Greece". European Journal of Political Research. 38 (3–4): 397–401. doi:10.1111/j.1475-6765.2000.tb01146.x. (Only deals with the parties that took seats)