1928 Greek legislative election

Parliamentary elections were held in Greece on 19 August 1928.[1] The result was a victory for the Liberal Party, which won 178 of the 250 seats.[2]

1928 Greek legislative election
19 August 1928
All 250 seats of the Greek Parliament
126 seats were needed for a majority
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Eleftherios Venizelos Alexandros Papanastasiou Panagis Tsaldaris
Party Liberal AEK People's Party
Leader since 1910 1926 1922
Last election 108 seats, 33.13% 17 seats, 6.79% 60 seats, 21.23%
Seats won 178 20 19
Seat change 70 3 41
Popular vote 477,502 68,278 243,543
Percentage 46.94% 6.71% 23.49%
Swing 13.81% 0.08% 2.26%
  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 
Leader Georgios Kondylis Andreas Michalakopoulos
Party EDK AS KSD
Leader since 1928 1928
Last election New 3 seats, 0.65% 3 seats, 1.38%
Seats won 9 6 5
Seat change New 3 2
Popular vote 27,603 18,069 15,852
Percentage 2.71% 1.78% 1.56%
Swing New 1.13% 0.18%
Prime Minister before election

Eleftherios Venizelos
Liberal

 Elected Prime Minister

Eleftherios Venizelos
Liberal

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Background

The Venizelists entered the elections as a coalition of five "parties of the liberals" under the leadership of Eleftherios Venizelos. These parties were the Democratic Union (later the Agricultural and Labour Party) under the leadership of Alexandros Papanastasiou, the National Democratic Party led by Georgios Kondylis, the Conservative Democratic Party under Andreas Michalakopoulos and the Progressive Union under the leadership of Konstantinos Zavitsanos. Because he wanted to follow an independent line from Venizelos, Georgios Kafantaris together with some personal friends and various dissatisfied liberals founded the Progressive Party.

The anti-Venizelist movement went into the elections divided as the People's Party, the Freethinkers' Party and a few independent royalists who put themselves up for election. The former dictator, Theodoros Pangalos, stood for election in Athens as chief of the National Union. In addition there were a large number of unaligned and independent candidates. Finally, the Communist Party of Greece entered the elections as the United Front.

Results
Party Votes % Seats +/–
Liberal Party477,50246.9178+70
People's Party243,54323.919–41
Agricultural and Labour Party68,2786.720New
Freethinkers' Party53,9585.31–51
Independent Royal Supporters38,5563.84New
National Democratic Party27,6032.79New
Progressive Party25,7292.53New
Independent Democrats18,0691.86New
Farmers' Party17,0421.70New
Conservative Democratic Party15,8521.65New
United Front14,3521.40New
Progressive Union13,4521.35New
National Union of Greece1,9580.20New
Independents1,3870.10New
Invalid/blank votes4,153–––
Total1,021,434100250–36
Registered voters/turnout––
Source: Nohlen & Stöver
Popular vote
KF
 
 46.94%
LK
 
 23.94%
AEK
 
 6.71%
KE
 
 5.30%
AB
 
 3.79%
KED
 
 2.71%
PK
 
 2.53%
AS
 
 1.78%
AK
 
 1.68%
KSD
 
 1.56%
EM
 
 1.41%
KPE
 
 1.32%
Others
 
 0.33%
Parliament seats
KF
 
 71.20%
AEK
 
 8.00%
LK
 
 7.60%
KED
 
 3.60%
AS
 
 2.40%
KSD
 
 2.00%
KPE
 
 2.00%
AB
 
 1.60%
PK
 
 1.20%
KE
 
 0.40%

References
  1. Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p829 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
  2. Nohlen & Stöver, p858
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