1932 Greek legislative election

Parliamentary elections were held in Greece on 25 September 1932.[1] All 250 seats in the Lower House of the Greek Parliament, the Chamber of Deputies, were elected, as well as one-third of the seats in the Senate. The outcome was an ambivalent result for the two biggest parties, the Liberal Party of Eleftherios Venizelos and the People's Party. The People's Party received a plurality of votes in the Chamber of Deputies elections, but won fewer seats than the Liberal Party.[2] The Liberals also won the most seats in the Senate.

1932 Greek legislative election

Chamber of Deputies
← 1928 25 September 1932 1933 →

All 250 seats in the Vouli
126 seats needed for a majority
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Eleftherios Venizelos Panagis Tsaldaris Georgios Kafantaris
Party Liberal People's Party Progressive
Last election 46.94%, 178 seats 23.94%, 19 seats 2.53%, 3 seats
Seats won 98 95 14
Seat change Decrease 80 Increase 76 Increase 11
Popular vote 391,521 395,974 97,836
Percentage 33.42% 33.80% 8.35%
Swing Decrease13.52 pp Increase9.86 pp Increase5.83 pp

  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 
Leader Nikos Zachariadis Alexandros Papanastasiou
Party Farmers' KKE AEK
Last election 1.68%, 0 seats 1.41%, 0 seats 6.71%, 20 seats
Seats won 13 13 8
Seat change Increase 13 Increase 13 Decrease 12
Popular vote 72,311 58,223 69,057
Percentage 6.17% 4.97% 5.89%
Swing Increase4.49 pp Increase3.56 pp Decrease0.82 pp

Prime Minister before election

Eleftherios Venizelos
Liberal

Prime Minister after election

Eleftherios Venizelos
Liberal

These were the last elections for the Senate, as it was abolished in 1935.

Results

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Chamber of Deputies

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PartyVotes%Seats+/–
People's Party395,97433.8095+76
Liberal Party391,52133.4298–80
Progressive Party97,8368.3514+11
Farmers' Party72,3116.1713+13
Agricultural and Labour Party69,0575.898–12
United Front58,2234.9713+13
National Radical Party47,6984.075–4
Freethinkers' Party18,5911.592+1
Conservative Democratic Party11,4940.980–5
Socialist Party8490.070New
Independents8,0830.692+2
Total1,171,637100.002500
Valid votes1,171,63799.63
Invalid/blank votes4,3460.37
Total votes1,175,983100.00
Source: Nohlen & Stöver, Rokkan & Meyriat

Senate

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PartyVotes%Seats
Liberal Party142,57539.4616
People's Party117,45232.5113
Progressive Party32,8229.081
Farmers' Party29,0008.030
United Front14,1433.910
Agricultural and Labour Party12,3763.430
National Radical Party10,4092.880
Independents2,5340.700
Total361,311100.0030
Valid votes361,31196.49
Invalid/blank votes13,1583.51
Total votes374,469100.00
Source: Nohlen & Stöver

References

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  1. ^ Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p830 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
  2. ^ Nohlen & Stöver, pp841-858