1928 Greek legislative election

Greek legislative election, 1928

19 August 1928
250 126 seats needed for a majority
First party Second party Third party   Leader Eleftherios Venizelos Panagis Tsaldaris Alexandros Papanastasiou Party Liberal People's Party AEK Seats won 178 19 20 Popular vote 477,502 243,543 68,278 Percentage 46.94% 23.94% 6.71%

Parliamentary elections were held in Greece on 19 August 1928. The result was a victory for the Liberal Party, which won 178 of the 250 seats.

Background

The Venizelists entered the elections as a coalition of five "parties of the liberals" under the leadership of Eleftherios Venizelos. These were the Democratic Union (later the Agricultural and Labour Party) under the leadership of Alexandros Papanastasiou, the National Democratic Party led by Georgios Kondylis, the Conservative Democratic Party under Andreas Michalakopoulos and the Progressive Union under the leadership of Konstantinos Zavitsanos. Because he wanted to follow an independent line from Venizelos, Georgios Kafantaris together with some personal friends and various dissatisfied liberals founded the Progressive Party.

The anti-Venizelist movement went into the elections divided as the People's Party, the Freethinkers' Party and a few independent royalists who put themselves up for election. The former dictator, Theodoros Pangalos, stood for election in Athens as chief of the National Union. In addition there were a large number of unaligned and independent candidates. Finally, the Communist Party of Greece entered the elections as the United Front.

Results

Party	Votes	%	Seats	+/–
Liberal Party	477,502	46.9	178	+70
People's Party	243,543	23.9	19	–41
Agricultural and Labour Party	68,278	6.7	20	New
Freethinkers' Party	53,958	5.3	1	–51
Independent Royal Supporters	38,556	3.8	4	New
National Democratic Party	27,603	2.7	9	New
Progressive Party	25,729	2.5	3	New
Independent Democrats	18,069	1.8	6	New
Farmers' Party	17,042	1.7	0	New
Conservative Democratic Party	15,852	1.6	5	New
United Front	14,352	1.4	0	New
Progressive Union	13,452	1.3	5	New
National Union of Greece	1,958	0.2	0	New
Independents	1,387	0.1	0	New
Invalid/blank votes	4,153	–	–	–
Total	1,021,434	100	250	–36
Registered voters/turnout			–	–
Source: Nohlen & Stöver

Popular vote KF   46.94% LK   23.94% AEK   6.71% KE   5.30% AB   3.79% KED   2.71% PK   2.53% AS   1.78% AK   1.68% KSD   1.56% EM   1.41% KPE   1.32% Others   0.33%

Parliament seats KF   71.20% AEK   8.00% LK   7.60% KED   3.60% AS   2.40% KSD   2.00% KPE   2.00% AB   1.60% PK   1.20% KE   0.40%