Greek European Parliament election, 1999
The European Parliament election of 1999 in Greece for the election of the delegation from Greece to the European Parliament took place on June 13. The election system used in Greece was a party-list proportional representation with a 3% threshold for any party. The number of seats allocated to Greece was 25.
Results [ edit ] 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 Panhellenic Socialist Movement 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
Leader
Votes
Seats
No.
%
+− %
No.
+−
New Democracy Kostas Karamanlis 2,314,371
36.00
+3.3
9
-
Panhellenic Socialist Movement Costas Simitis 2,115,844
32.91
-4.7
9
-1
Communist Party of Greece Aleka Papariga 557,365
8.67
+2.38
3
+1
Democratic Social Movement Dimitris Tsovolas 440,191
6.85
-
2
-
Coalition of the Left and Progress Nikos Konstantopoulos 331,928
5.16
-1.2
2
-
Political Spring Antonis Samaras 146,512
2.28
-6.3
0
-2
The Liberals Stefanos Manos 103,962
1.62
+1.6
0
-
Party of Greek Hunters Georgios Aramatzis 64,194
1.00
0
-
Union of Centrists Vassilis Leventis 52,512
0.82
0
-
Front Line Konstantinos Plevris 48,532
0.75
0
-
Ecological Greek (Kollatos) Οικολογικό Ελληνικό Dimitrios Kollatos 48,532
0.75
0
-
Greek Ecologists Dimosthenis Vergis 30,684
0.48
0
-
Radical Anti-Prohibitory Movement Ριζοσπαστική Αντιαπαγορευτική Κίνηση Kleanthis Grivas 21,274
0.33
0
-
Marxist-Leninist Communist Party of Greece Iosif Stavridis 16,782
0.26
0
-
Party of Hellenism Sotirios Sofianopoulos 16,608
0.26
0
-
Alternative Ecologists (Chatzipanagiotou) Dimitrios Chatzipanagiotou 14,335
0.22
0
-
Popular Unions of Bipartisan Social Groups (Lefko)Konstantinos Dalios 14,266
0.22
0
-
Radical Left Front Dimitrios Desillas 10,884
0.17
0
-
Militant Socialist Party of Greece Nikolaos Kargopoulos 9,840
0.15
0
-
Socialist Worker's Party Panos Garganas 8,049
0.13
0
-
Hellenic Front Makis Voridis 7,693
0.12
0
-
Rainbow Pavlos Boskopoulos 4,951
0.08
0
-
Organization for the Reconstruction of the Communist Party of Greece Ilias Zafeiropoulos 4,600
0.07
0
-
Human Rights Christos Antonopoulos 1,201
0.02
0
-
Alternative Ecologists (Shizas) Ioannis Shizas 832
0.01
0
-
Others
57,219
0.89
0
-
No. of valid votes 6,429,036
100,00
25
-
Invalid votes
283,648
Total 6,712,684
Registered voters 9,555,326
Sources: [ 2] [ 3]
References [ edit ] 
