1952 Greek legislative election

Parliamentary elections were held in Greece on 16 November 1952.[1] They resulted in a victory for General Alexander Papagos and the party he had founded the previous year, the Greek Rally party. Papagos won by unifying most of the conservative forces under his leadership, and taking advantage of a weakened centre. The electorate of Konstantinos Tsaldaris' People's Party, the leading conservative party in the 1950 elections, shrank to only 1%.

1952 Greek legislative election

16 November 1952
All 300 seats of the Greek Parliament 151 seats were needed for a majority
Leader Alexandros Papagos Nikolaos Plastiras Party ES EPEK-KF Leader since 1951 1949 Last election 114 seats, 36.53% 131 seats, 42.53% Seats won 247 51 Seat change 133 80 Popular vote 783,541 544,834 Percentage 49.22% 34.23% Swing 12.69% 8.30%
Prime Minister before election Nikolaos Plastiras EPEK-KF Elected Prime Minister Alexandros Papagos ES

Results

Party	Votes	%	Seats	+/–
Greek Rally	783,541	49.2	247	+133
National Progressive Center Union-Liberal Party	544,834	34.2	51	–80
United Democratic Left	152,011	9.5	0	–10
People's Party	16,767	1.1	0	–2
Agricultural and Labour Party	10,431	0.7	0	–1
List of Independents	56,679	3.6	2	+2
Agricultural Party	691	0.0	0	New
Independents	26,853	1.7	0	0
Invalid/blank votes	8,365	–	–	–
Total	1,600,172	100	300	+42
Registered voters/turnout	2,123,150	75.4	–	–
Source: Nohlen & Stöver

Popular vote ES   49.22% EPEK-KF   34.23% EDA   9.55% LK   1.05% Others   5.95%

Parliament seats ES   82.33% EPEK-KF   17.00% Others   0.67%

References

1. Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p830 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7