1933 Greek legislative election

1933 Greek legislative election

5 March 1933
All 248 seats in the Vouli 125 seats needed for a majority
First party Second party Third party   Leader Panagis Tsaldaris Eleftherios Venizelos Alexandros Papanastasiou Party People's Party Liberal AEK Last election 33.80%, 95 seats 33.42%, 98 seats 5.89%, 8 seats Seats won 118 80 13 Seat change 23 18 5 Popular vote 434,550 379,968 47,460 Percentage 38.07% 33.29% 4.16% Swing 4.27pp 0.13pp 1.73pp   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Leader Georgios Kondylis Georgios Kafantaris Ioannis Metaxas Party ERK Progressive KE Last election 4.07%, 5 seats 8.35%, 14 seats 1.59%, 2 seats Seats won 11 10 6 Seat change 6 4 4 Popular vote 46,692 77,254 25,758 Percentage 4.09% 6.77% 2.26% Swing 0.02pp 1.57pp 0.67pp
Prime Minister before election Eleftherios Venizelos Liberal Prime Minister after election Panagis Tsaldaris People's Party

Parliamentary elections were held in Greece on 5 March 1933. The pro-monarchist People's Party emerged as the largest party, winning 118 of the 248 seats in Parliament, ending the predominance of Eleftherios Venizelos' Liberal Party. The results triggered an attempted coup by Venizelist officers. A military emergency government under Alexandros Othonaios was instituted which suppressed the revolt, and was succeeded by a People's Party cabinet under Panagis Tsaldaris on 10 March.

Results

Party		Votes	%	Seats	+/–
	People's Party	434,550	38.07	118	+23
	Liberal Party	379,968	33.29	80	–18
	Progressive Party	77,254	6.77	10	–4
	Communist Party of Greece	52,958	4.64	0	–13
	Agricultural and Labour Party	47,460	4.16	13	+5
	National Radical Party	46,692	4.09	11	+6
	Freethinkers' Party	25,758	2.26	6	+4
	Independent Party	22,985	2.01	2	New
	Farmers' Party	20,200	1.77	1	–12
	National Alliance	14,302	1.25	5	New
	Conservative Democratic Party	9,672	0.85	2	+2
	Independents	9,532	0.84	0	0
Total		1,141,331	100.00	248	–2
Valid votes		1,141,331	99.51
Invalid/blank votes		5,612	0.49
Total votes		1,146,943	100.00
Source: Nohlen & Stöver