2004 Greek parliamentary election

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2004 parliamentary elections 300 seats on the Helene Council 151 seats required for absolute majority
Date						Sunday, 7 March 2004
Type						Parliamentarians
Period						2004-2008
Electoral demography
Population					11,042,011
Registered						9,899,472
Voters						7.573,368
Participation
							76.50 %1.5 %
Valid votes						7,406,619
Null vote						166.749
Results
			ND
			Votes			3,359,68214.4 %
			Collections						16540
									45.36 %
			PASOK
			Votes			3,003,2750.1 %
			Collections						11741
									40.55 %
			KKE
			Votes			436.70615%
			Collections						121
									5.52 %
			SYRIZA
			Votes			241,6379.9 %
			Collections						60
									3.26 %
Winning Party by District
Distribution of seats in the Council of the Helenes
12KKE6SYRIZA						117PASOK165ND
Prime Minister of the Hellenic Republic
Owner Kostas Simitis						Elect Kostas Karamanlis

The Greek legislative elections took place on March 7, 2004. The 300 seats in the Greek Parliament, or Voule, were contested. Costas Caramanlis's New Democracy party won a decisive victory in the elections, thus ending 11 years of rule of the Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK).

PASOK candidate George Papandreou had succeeded Prime Minister Costas Simitis as party leader in February.

The leaders

The politics of Greece are very dynastic. Costas Caramanlis is the nephew of Constantinos Caramanlis, who was three times Prime Minister and twice President of Greece. On the other hand, George Papandreou is the son of Andreas Papandreou, twice prime minister and founder of PASOK, and grandson of George Papandreou, a liberal who had also been prime minister twice. The Greek newspaper Kathemerini quoted a Greek voter during the campaign: We Greeks like to know where our leaders come from. We feel like we know those families as well as our own."

Results