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2004 European Parliament election in Greece
Majority party
Minority party
Third party
Leader
Kostas Karamanlis
George Papandreou
Aleka Papariga
Party
ND —PA
PASOK
KKE
Last election
36.00%, 9 seats
32.91%, 9 seats
8.67%, 3 seats
Seats won
11
8
3
Seat change
2
1
Popular vote
2,633,574
2,083,327
580,396
Percentage
43.01%
34.03%
9.48%
Swing
7.01pp
1.12pp
0.81pp
Fourth party
Fifth party
Leader
Nikos Konstantopoulos
Georgios Karatzaferis
Party
Synaspismos
LAOS
Last election
5.16%, 2 seats
–
Seats won
1
1
Seat change
1
New
Popular vote
254,447
252,429
Percentage
4.16%
4.12%
Swing
1.00pp
New
European Parliament elections were held in Greece on 13 June 2004 to elect 24 Greek members of the European Parliament . Members were elected by party-list proportional representation with a 3% electoral threshold.
Results [ edit ]
The 2004 European election was the sixth election to the European Parliament. The ruling New Democracy party made strong gains, while the opposition PASOK made smaller gains, both at the expense of minor parties. The traditionalist Popular Orthodox Rally , contested in the election for the first time and elected one MEP.
Party Votes % Seats +/– New Democracy —Political Spring 2,633,574 43.01 11 +2 PASOK 2,083,327 34.03 8 –1 Communist Party of Greece 580,396 9.48 3 0 Synaspismos 254,447 4.16 1 –1 Popular Orthodox Rally 252,429 4.12 1 New Women for Another Europe 46,565 0.76 0 New Democratic Regional Union 44,541 0.73 0 New Ecologist Greens 40,873 0.67 0 0 Union of Centrists 34,511 0.56 0 0 Greek Ecologists 32,956 0.54 0 0 Marxist–Leninist Communist Party of Greece 21,220 0.35 0 0 Hellenic Front 15,243 0.25 0 0 Democratic Socialist Movement 13,627 0.22 0 New Radical Left Front 13,387 0.22 0 0 Anti-Capitalist Coalition 11,938 0.19 0 0 Fighting Socialist Party of Greece 11,598 0.19 0 0 Patriotic Alliance 10,618 0.17 0 New Rainbow 6,176 0.10 0 0 Vision 5,996 0.10 0 New Organization for the Reconstruction of the Communist Party of Greece 5,090 0.08 0 0 European Confederacy 3,791 0.06 0 New Alternative Ecologists 284 0.00 0 0 Christianity 45 0.00 0 0 Total 6,122,632 100.00 24 –1 Valid votes 6,122,632 97.44 Invalid/blank votes 161,005 2.56 Total votes 6,283,637 100.00 Registered voters/turnout 9,938,863 63.22 Source: Ministry of the Interior
References [ edit ]