1999 European Parliament election in Greece

13 June 1999
25 seats in the European Parliament
Majority party Minority party Third party   Leader Kostas Karamanlis Costas Simitis Aleka Papariga Party ND PASOK KKE Last election 32.66%, 9 seats 37.64%, 10 seats 6.29%, 2 seats Seats won 9 9 3 Seat change 1 1 Popular vote 2,314,371 2,115,844 557,365 Percentage 36.00% 32.91% 8.67% Swing 3.34pp 4.73pp 2.38pp   Fourth party Fifth party   Leader Dimitris Tsovolas Nikos Konstantopoulos Party DIKKI Synaspismos Last election – 6.25%, 2 seats Seats won 2 2 Seat change New Popular vote 440,191 331,928 Percentage 6.85% 5.16% Swing New 1.09pp

European Parliament elections were held in Greece on 13 June 1999 to elect the 25 Greek members to the European Parliament. Members were elected by party-list proportional representation with a 3% threshold for any party.

Results

The 1999 European election was the fifth election to the European Parliament. The opposition conservative New Democracy party made gains as did the Communist Party of Greece, while the ruling PASOK lost ground. Two parties on the left, the relatively new Democratic Social Movement and the Coalition of the Left and Progress elected two MEPs each. Political Spring, which had elected 2 MEPs in 1994, was unsuccessful in passing the 3% threshold and did not elect any members.^[1]

Party		Votes	%	Seats	+/–
	New Democracy	2,314,371	36.00	9	0
	PASOK	2,115,844	32.91	9	–1
	Communist Party of Greece	557,365	8.67	3	+1
	Democratic Social Movement	440,191	6.85	2	New
	Synaspismos	331,928	5.16	2	0
	Political Spring	146,512	2.28	0	–2
	The Liberals	103,962	1.62	0	New
	Party of Greek Hunters	64,194	1.00	0	0
	Union of Centrists	52,512	0.82	0	0
	Front Line	48,532	0.75	0	New
	Kollatos	42,456	0.66	0	0
	Greek Ecologists	30,684	0.48	0	0
	Radical Anti-Prohibitory Movement	21,274	0.33	0	New
	Marxist–Leninist Communist Party of Greece	16,782	0.26	0	0
	Party of Hellenism	16,608	0.26	0	New
	Alternative Ecologists (Chatzipanagiotou)	14,335	0.22	0	0
	Popular Unions of Bipartisan Social Groups	14,266	0.22	0	0
	Radical Left Front	10,884	0.17	0	New
	Fighting Socialist Party of Greece	9,840	0.15	0	New
	Left	9,693	0.15	0	New
	Socialist Worker's Party	8,050	0.13	0	New
	Hellenic Front	7,693	0.12	0	New
	Rainbow	4,951	0.08	0	New
	Organization for the Reconstruction of the Communist Party of Greece	4,600	0.07	0	0
	Autonomous Revolutionary Political Movement	4,260	0.07	0	0
	Olympism	4,152	0.06	0	0
	Natural Law Party	2,812	0.04	0	New
	Christianity	2,153	0.03	0	New
	Human Rights	1,201	0.02	0	New
	Alternative Ecologists (Shizas)	832	0.01	0	New
	Independents	25,759	0.40	0	0
Total		6,428,696	100.00	25	0
Valid votes		6,428,696	95.77
Invalid/blank votes		283,988	4.23
Total votes		6,712,684	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		9,555,326	70.25
Source: Ikaria

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