1946 Greek legislative election

Parliamentary elections were held in Greece on 31 March 1946. The result was a victory for the United Alignment of Nationalists, an alliance that included the People's Party, the National Liberal Party, the Reform Party, which won 206 of the 354 seats in Parliament. As a result Konstantinos Tsaldaris became Prime Minister leading a right-wing coalition. Nonetheless, he soon decided to resign in favor of Themistoklis Sophoulis, who led a government of national unity (conservative and centre-liberal forces) during the entire second phase of the civil war (1946–1949). One of the priorities of the new government was the proclamation of a plebiscite for the restoration of the Greek monarchy.

The elections were marked by the boycott of the Communist Party of Greece in protest against the unfolding, state-tolerated White Terror against the former members of EAM-ELAS. One of the reasons for the defeat of the centre-liberal parties was the division of the Liberal Party, founded by Eleftherios Venizelos. One faction remained loyal to the leadership of Themistoklis Sophoulis, while another faction followed Sophoklis Venizelos, who formed a coalition with Georgios Papandreou and Panayiotis Kanellopoulos.

Results

Party	Votes	%	Seats
United Alignment of Nationalists[a]	610,995	55.12	206
National Political Union[b]	213,721	19.28	68
Liberal Party	159,525	14.39	48
National Party of Greece	66,027	5.96	20
Union of Nationalists	32,538	2.94	9
List of Independents	12,036	1.08	2
Union of Agrarian Parties	7,447	0.67	1
Party X	1,848	0.17	0
Civil and Agricultural Party	1,114	0.10	0
Parataxis of Orthodox Christian Greeks	298	0.03	0
Patriotic Party of Reservists	63	0.01	0
Party for the National Union	15	0.00	0
Socialist Party	13	0.00	0
Independents	2,833	0.25	0
Invalid/blank votes	13,223	–	–
Total	1,121,696	100	354
Source: Nohlen & Stöver, Global Elections Database

^a Within the United Alignment the People's Party won 156 seats, the National Liberal Party 34, the Reform Party five and others 11.

^b Within the National Political Union the Party of Venizelian Liberals won 31 seats, the National Unionist Party 27, the Democratic Socialist Party 7 seats and others three.

Popular vote HPE   55.12% EPE   19.28% KF   14.39% EKE   5.96% EE   2.94% Others   2.32%

Parliament seats HPE   58.19% EPE   19.21% KF   13.56% EKE   5.65% EE   2.54% Others   0.85%