1994 European Parliament election in Greece

1994 European Parliament election in Greece

12 June 1994
25 seats in the European Parliament
Majority party Minority party Third party   Leader Andreas Papandreou Miltiadis Evert Antonis Samaras Party PASOK ND PA Alliance PES EPP–ED EDA Last election 35.96%, 9 seats 40.41%, 10 seats – Seats won 10 9 2 Seat change 1 1 New Popular vote 2,458,619 2,133,372 564,778 Percentage 37.64% 32.66% 8.65% Swing 1.68pp 7.75pp New   Fourth party Fifth party   Leader Aleka Papariga Nikos Konstantopoulos Party KKE Synaspismos Alliance GUE/NGL GUE/NGL Last election Seats won 2 2 Seat change – – Popular vote 410,741 408,066 Percentage 6.29% 6.25% Swing – –

European Parliament elections were held in Greece on 12 June 1994 to elect the 25 Greek members of the European Parliament. Members were elected by party-list proportional representation, with a 3% electoral threshold.

Results

The 1994 European election was the fourth election to the European Parliament in which Greece participated. The ruling PASOK under the leadership of the aging Andreas Papandreou made gains against the opposition conservative New Democracy party. A new party Political Spring had left New Democracy and came in third ahead of the Communist Party of Greece and the Coalition of the Left and Progress which had contested the previous election in coalition. The parties on the left elected two MEPs each, the same result as 1989.

Party		Votes	%	Seats	+/–
	PASOK	2,458,619	37.64	10	+1
	New Democracy	2,133,372	32.66	9	–1
	Political Spring	564,778	8.65	2	New
	Communist Party of Greece	410,741	6.29	2	–
	Synaspismos	408,066	6.25	2	–
	Democratic Renewal	182,522	2.79	0	0
	Union of Centrists	77,951	1.19	0	New
	National Party–National Political Union	50,748	0.78	0	0
	Kollatos	45,870	0.70	0	New
	Party of Greek Hunters	41,157	0.63	0	New
	Union of Ecologists	22,790	0.35	0	New
	Popular European Social Group	18,648	0.29	0	New
	Political Ecologists	17,017	0.26	0	0
	Left Movement Against the EEC	14,007	0.21	0	New
	Marxist–Leninist Communist Party of Greece	9,639	0.15	0	New
	Ecological Renaissance	9,233	0.14	0	New
	Citizens Movement	8,902	0.14	0	New
	Democratic Party	7,908	0.12	0	New
	Golden Dawn	7,264	0.11	0	New
	Organization for the Reconstruction of the Communist Party of Greece	5,956	0.09	0	New
	European Federation Vision	4,834	0.07	0	New
	Nationalist Support	3,601	0.06	0	New
	Olympism	3,153	0.05	0	New
	Autonomous Revolutionary Political Movement	79	0.00	0	0
	Other parties	25,736	0.39	0	–
Total		6,532,591	100.00	25	+1
Valid votes		6,532,591	96.01
Invalid/blank votes		271,293	3.99
Total votes		6,803,884	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		9,550,596	71.24
Source: Ikaria