1951 Greek parliamentary election

1951 Greek parliamentary election
9 September 1951
All 258 seats in the Hellenic Parliament
130 seats needed for a majority
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Alexandros Papagos Nikolaos Plastiras Sofoklis Venizelos
Party Greek Rally EPEK Liberal
Last election – 16.45%, 45 seats 17.24%, 56 seats
Seats won 114 74 57
Seat change New 29 1
Popular vote 624,316 401,379 325,390
Percentage 36.53% 23.49% 19.04%
Swing New 7.04pp 1.80pp
  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 
Leader Ioannis Passalidis Konstantinos Tsaldaris Alexandros Baltatzis
Party EDA People's AEK
Last election – 18.79%, 62 seats –
Seats won 10 2 1
Seat change New 60 New
Popular vote 180,640 113,876 21,009
Percentage 10.57% 6.66% 1.23%
Swing New 12.13pp New
Results by constituency
Prime Minister before election

Sofoklis Venizelos
Liberal

 Prime Minister after election

Nikolaos Plastiras
EPEK

Parliamentary elections were held in Greece on 9 September 1951. They resulted in an ambivalent outcome, consisting a narrow and pyrrhic, as proven later, victory for the ruling center-liberal parties of Sophoklis Venizelos and Nikolaos Plastiras.

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