1928 Greek parliamentary election Hellenic Parliament
Parliamentary elections were held inGreece on 19 August 1928.[ 1] Liberal Party , which won 178 of the 250 seats.[ 2]
The Venizelists entered the elections as a coalition of five "parties of the liberals" under the leadership of Eleftherios Venizelos. These parties were theDemocratic Union (later theAgricultural and Labour Party ) under the leadership ofAlexandros Papanastasiou , theNational Democratic Party led byGeorgios Kondylis , theConservative Democratic Party underAndreas Michalakopoulos and theProgressive 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 theProgressive Party .
The anti-Venizelist movement went into the elections divided as thePeople's Party , theFreethinkers' 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 theNational Union . In addition there were a large number of unaligned and independent candidates. Finally, theCommunist Party of Greece entered the elections as the United Front.
Party Votes % Seats +/– Liberal Party 477,502 46.94 178 +70 People's Party 243,543 23.94 19 –41 Agricultural and Labour Party 68,278 6.71 20 New Freethinkers' Party 53,958 5.30 1 –51 Independent Royal Supporters 38,556 3.79 4 New National Democratic Party 27,603 2.71 9 New Progressive Party 25,729 2.53 3 New Independent Democrats 18,069 1.78 6 New Farmers' Party 17,042 1.68 0 New Conservative Democratic Party 15,852 1.56 5 New United Front 14,352 1.41 0 New Progressive Union 13,452 1.32 5 New National Union of Greece 1,958 0.19 0 New Independents 1,387 0.14 0 New Total 1,017,281 100.00 250 –36 Valid votes 1,017,281 99.59 Invalid/blank votes 4,153 0.41 Total votes 1,021,434 100.00 Source: Nohlen & Stöver
