European Parliament election, 2004 (Greece)

Elections to the European Parliament were held in Greece on June 13, 2004. The ruling New Democracy party made strong gains, while the opposition Panhellenic Socialist Movement made smaller gains, both at the expense of minor parties.

Party		Leader	Votes			Seats
			No.	%	+− %	No.	+−
	New Democracy	Costas Caramanlis	2,633,961	43.02	+7.0	11	+2
	Panhellenic Socialist Movement	George Andreas Papandreou	2,083,327	34.03	+1.1	8	−1
	Communist Party of Greece	Aleka Papariga	580,396	9.48	+0.8	3
	Coalition of the Left	Nikos Konstantopoulos	254,447	4.16	-1.0	1	-1
	Popular Orthodox Rally	Georgios Karatzaferis	252,429	4.12	-	1	-
	Women for Another Europe		46,565	0.76	-	0	-
	Democratic Regional Union	Mihalis Haralambidis	44,541	0.73	-	0	-
	Ecologists Green		40,873	0.67	-	0	-
	Union of Centrists	Vassilis Leventis	34,511	0.56	+0	-	-
	Greek Ecologists	Dimosthenis Vergis	32,956	0.54	-	-	-
	Marxist-Leninist Communist Party of Greece		21,220	0.35	+0	-	-
	Hellenic Front	Makis Voridis	15,243	0.25	-	-	-
	Socialist Democratic Movement		13,627	0.22	-	-	-
	Radical Left Front		13,387	0.22	+0	-	-
	Anti-Capitalist Coalition		11,938	0.19	-	-	-
	Militant Socialist Party of Greece		11,598	0.19	+0	-	-
	Patriotic Coalition		10,618	0.17	+0	-	_
	Rainbow		6,176	0.10	+0	-	-
	Vision		5,996	0.10	-	-	-
	Organization for the Reconstruction of the Communist Party of Greece		5,090	0.08	+0	-	-
	European Confederacy		3,791	0.06	+0	-	-
	Alternative Ecologists		284	0.00	+0	-	-
	Hristopistia		45	0.0	+0	-	-
No. of valid votes			6,122,632	100,00		24	-1
Invalid votes			161,005
Total			6,283,637 (97,4%)
Registered voters			9,938,863

(Source: Greek Interior Ministry website http://www.ypes.gr/ekloges/content/gr/ethnik_fr.htm)

Links

Greek election results, via the Greek Ministry of Internal Affairs

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