Greek legislative election, 1952 - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

The Greek legislative election of 16 November 1952 resulted in victory for General Alexander Papagos

Alexander Papagos

Field Marshal Alexander Papagos , was a Greek General who led the Greek Army in the Greco-Italian War and the later stages of the Greek Civil War and became the country's Prime Minister...

and the party he had founded the previous year, the Greek Rally

Greek Rally

Greek Rally , Ellinikos Synagermos ) was a Greek political party founded on 6 August 1951 by former general Alexandros Papagos. The party encompassed a broad spectrum of the royalist conservative right in Greek society and was modeled on the Charles de Gaulle's Rassemblement du Peuple Français...

party.

Papagos won by unifying most of the conservative forces under his leadership, and taking advantage of a weakened centre

Centrism

In politics, centrism is the ideal or the practice of promoting policies that lie different from the standard political left and political right. Most commonly, this is visualized as part of the one-dimensional political spectrum of left-right politics, with centrism landing in the middle between...

.

The electorate of Konstantinos Tsaldaris

Konstantinos Tsaldaris

Konstantinos Tsaldaris was a Greek politician and twice Prime Minister of Greece.Tsaldaris was born in Alexandria, Egypt. He studied law at the University of Athens as well as Berlin, London and Florence...

' People's Party

People's Party (Greece)

The People's Party of Greece was a conservative and pro-monarchist political party founded by Dimitrios Gounaris, the main political rival of Eleftherios Venizelos and his Liberal Party. The party existed from 1920 until 1958....

, the leading conservative party in the 1950 election, shrunk to only 1%.

rowspan=2 colspan=3 valign=top|Summary of the 16 November 1952 Greek Parliament

Hellenic Parliament

The Hellenic Parliament , also the Parliament of the Hellenes, is the Parliament of Greece, located in the Parliament House , overlooking Syntagma Square in Athens, Greece....

election results
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||Greek Rally

Greek Rally

|Alexander Papagos

Alexander Papagos

Field Marshal Alexander Papagos , was a Greek General who led the Greek Army in the Greco-Italian War and the later stages of the Greek Civil War and became the country's Prime Minister...

Liberal Party (Greece)

The Liberal Party was one of the major Greek political parties of the early 20th century.- History :Founded as the Xipoliton party in Crete , its early leaders were Kostis Mitsotakis and Eleftherios Venizelos...

Socialist Party-Democratic Popular Union
|Georgios Papandreou
Sophoklis Venizelos

Sophoklis Venizelos

Sofoklis Venizelos was a prominent Greek politician who three times served as Prime Minister of Greece .He was born in Chania. The second-born son of Eleftherios Venizelos, Sofoklis served with distinction in the Greek Army during the First World War and the initial phases of the Asia Minor...

Alexandros Svolos

Alexandros Svolos was a prominent Greek legal expert, who also served as president of the Political Committee of National Liberation, a Resistance-based government during the Axis Occupation of Greece.- Early life :...

United Democratic Left

The United Democratic Left was a political party in Greece, active mostly before the Greek military junta of 1967-1974.-Foundation:...

People's Party (Greece)

|Konstantinos Tsaldaris

Konstantinos Tsaldaris

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|align="right"|1,05
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|align="center"|3
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|Rally of Farmers and Workers
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|align="right"|0,66
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|align="center"|2
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|Party of Farmers
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|align="right"|0,04
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|Lists of independents
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|align="right"|3,57
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|align="center"|11
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|Others
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|align="right"|1,69
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|align="center"|5
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|colspan="3"|Total number of seats
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|align="center"|300
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|colspan="3"|Population
|align="right"|7.395.219
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|colspan="3"|Subscribed voters
|align="right"|2.123.150
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|colspan="3"|Total number of votes
|align="right"|1.600.172
|align="center"|(21,61% of the
population
75,36% of the
subscribed voters)
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|colspan="3"|Abstention
|align="right"|522.978
|align="center"|24,64%
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|colspan="3"|Valid votes
|align="right"|1.591.807
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|colspan="3"|Invalid votes
|align="right"|8.365
|align="center"|0,52%
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|colspan="3"|Constituencies
|align="right"|99
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|colspan=7|Sources: Richard Clogg, A Concise History of Greece, Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1992, p. 234.
Antonis Pantelis, Stefanos Koutsoumpinas, Triantafyllos Gerozisis: Texts of Constitutional History, Volume II, pages 830-831
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