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1928 Greek parliamentary election

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Field	Value
country	Second Hellenic Republic
type	parliamentary
previous_election	1926 Greek parliamentary election
previous_year	1926
next_election	1932 Greek parliamentary election
next_year	1932
seats_for_election	All 250 seats in the Hellenic Parliament
majority_seats	126
election_date	19 August 1928
image_size	130x130px
image1	Eleftherios_Venizelos,_portrait_1935.jpg
leader1	Eleftherios Venizelos
party1	Liberal Party (Greece)
last_election1	108 seats
seats1	178
seat_change1	70
popular_vote1	477,502
percentage1	46.94%
image2	AlexandrosPapanastasiu.jpeg
leader2	Alexandros Papanastasiou
party2	Agricultural and Labour Party
last_election2	17 seats
seats2	20
seat_change2	3
popular_vote2	68,278
percentage2	6.71%
image3	PnagiotisTsaldaris1932.jpg
leader3	Panagis Tsaldaris
party3	People's Party (Greece)
last_election3	60 seats
seats3	19
seat_change3	41
popular_vote3	243,543
percentage3	23.49%
image4	Georgios_Kondylis.jpg
leader4	Georgios Kondylis
party4	National Democratic Party (Greece)
last_election4	–
seats4	9
seat_change4	New
popular_vote4	27,603
percentage4	2.71%
party5	AD
last_election5	3 seats
seats5	6
seat_change5	3
popular_vote5	18,069
percentage5	1.78%
swing5	1.13%
colour5	FFFF99
image6	Andreas_Michalakopoulos_1927.jpg
leader6	Andreas Michalakopoulos
party6	Conservative Democratic Party (Greece)
last_election6	3 seats
seats6	5
seat_change6	2
popular_vote6	15,852
percentage6	1.56%
title	Prime Minister
posttitle	Prime Minister after election
before_election	Eleftherios Venizelos
before_party	Liberal Party (Greece)
after_election	Eleftherios Venizelos
after_party	Liberal Party (Greece)

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 parties 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

References

[[Dieter Nohlen]] & Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p829 {{ISBN. 978-3-8329-5609-7
Nohlen & Stöver, p858

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