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Greek legislative election, 1958
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The Greek legislative election of the 19 February 1958 resulted in the second consecutive victory for Constantine Caramanlis, and his National Radical Union party.
Constantine Karamanlis took the decision to call for early elections, after some of the most prominent members of the National Radical Union defected from the party, including George Rallis and Panagis Papaligouras. Although Karamanlis could have a parliamentary majority, he preferred to go for elections, in order to achieve a renewed public support.
The pretext of the defection was a new electoral law that Karamanlis passed. Rallis was opposed to the law, thinking that it is going to be extremely favorable for EDA, a party believed to be linked with the outlaw during this period KKE.
The outcome of the results proved that Rallis' "fears" were justified. EDA became the second biggest party, outvoting a divided centre.
Just after the elections Karamanlis formed a new governement, taking back in his party the defectors
| Summary of the 11 May 1958 Greek Parliament election resultsedit |
Votes |
Seats |
| No. |
% |
+− % |
No. |
+− |
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National Radical Union |
Constantine Karamanlis |
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41.46 |
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171 |
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United Democratic Left |
Dimitrios Pasalidis |
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24.42 |
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79 |
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Liberal Party |
Sophoklis Venizelos |
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20.67 |
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36 |
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Progressive Rural Democratic Union |
Georgios Papandreou |
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10.62 |
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10 |
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Union of People's Party |
Konstantinos Tsaldaris |
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2.94 |
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4 |
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Lists of Independents |
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0.1 |
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Others |
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0.06 |
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- |
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| Totals |
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100.00 |
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300 |
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| Constituencies |
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55 |
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300 |
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| Valid votes |
3,847,785 |
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| Invalid votes |
16,197 |
(0.32%) |
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| Total number of votes |
3,863,982 |
(75,4%) |
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| Valid electorate |
5,119,148 |
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| Population |
7,395,219 |
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| Source: Texts of Constitutional History, vol. 2, p. 835. |
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