GREEK REPUBLIC LEGISLATIVE ELECTIONS OF 16 SEPTEMBER 2007 ==================================================================== Elections to the Voule ton Ellenikon (Parliament of the Greeks) Source: Interior Ministry website NATIONAL SUMMARY OF VOTES AND SEATS ==================================================================== Greek electoral law requires that the party winning a plurity of votes be awarded a majority of seats in the Voule. This involves some distortion of the proportionality of the result, as shown in the following table. Parties must poll 3% of the national vote to gain representation. Votes and seats are compared with those gained in the 2004 elections. GREECE 9,921,343 voters, 7,355,946 (74.1%) voted ==================================================================== Party votes % change seats -------------------------------------------------------------------- Coalition of Left (Synaspismos) 361,216 05.0 (+01.7) 14 (+08) Communist Party (KKE) 583,768 08.2 (+02.3) 22 (+10) New Democracy (ND) 2,995,321 41.8 (-03.6) 152 (-13) Pan-Hellenic Socialist (PASOK) 2,727,702 38.1 (-02.4) 102 (-15) Popular Orthodox Rally (LAOS) 271,761 03.8 (+00.9) 10 (+10) Others 220,129 03.1 - -------------------------------------------------------------------- 196,049 (02.7%) void 7,159,897 300 --------------------------------------------------------------------