Greek legislative election, 1990
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Legislative elections were held in the Hellenic Republic
Greece
Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....

 on 8 April 1990. At stake were 300 seats in the Greek parliament, the Voule.

The conservative New Democracy
New Democracy (Greece)
New Democracy is the main centre-right political party and one of the two major parties in Greece. It was founded in 1974 by Konstantinos Karamanlis and formed the first cabinet of the Third Hellenic Republic...

 party of Constantine Mitsotakis
Constantine Mitsotakis
Constantine Mitsotakis , a Greek politician, was born in Chania, Crete. He came from a political family: his father and grandfathers were members of parliament, and the great liberal leader Eleftherios Venizelos was his uncle...

, was elected, defeating the Panhellenic Socialist Movement
Panhellenic Socialist Movement
The Panhellenic Socialist Movement , known mostly by its acronym PASOK , is one of the two major political parties in Greece. Founded on 3 September 1974 by Andreas Papandreou, in 1981 PASOK became Greece's first social democratic party to win a majority in parliament.The party is a socialist party...

 (PASOK) of Andreas Papandreou
Andreas Papandreou
Andreas G. Papandreou ; 5 February 1919 – 23 June 1996) was a Greek economist, a socialist politician and a dominant figure in Greek politics. The son of Georgios Papandreou, Andreas was a Harvard-trained academic...

.


rowspan=2 colspan=2 valign=top|Summary of the 8 April 1990 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
!colspan="3" cellpadding="8" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|Votes
!colspan="2" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|Seats
|- style="background-color:#E9E9E9"
!No.
!% 
!align="center"|+− %
!align="center"|No.
!align="center"|+−
|-
|New Democracy
New Democracy (Greece)
New Democracy is the main centre-right political party and one of the two major parties in Greece. It was founded in 1974 by Konstantinos Karamanlis and formed the first cabinet of the Third Hellenic Republic...


|Constantine Mitsotakis
Constantine Mitsotakis
Constantine Mitsotakis , a Greek politician, was born in Chania, Crete. He came from a political family: his father and grandfathers were members of parliament, and the great liberal leader Eleftherios Venizelos was his uncle...


|align="right"|3,088,137
|align="right"|46.9%
|align="center"|
|align="center"|150
|align="center"|
|-
|Panhellenic Socialist Movement
Panhellenic Socialist Movement
The Panhellenic Socialist Movement , known mostly by its acronym PASOK , is one of the two major political parties in Greece. Founded on 3 September 1974 by Andreas Papandreou, in 1981 PASOK became Greece's first social democratic party to win a majority in parliament.The party is a socialist party...


|Andreas Papandreou
Andreas Papandreou
Andreas G. Papandreou ; 5 February 1919 – 23 June 1996) was a Greek economist, a socialist politician and a dominant figure in Greek politics. The son of Georgios Papandreou, Andreas was a Harvard-trained academic...


|align="right"|2,543,042
|align="right"|38.6%
|align="center"|
|align="center"|123
|align="center"|
|-
|Coalition of the Left and Progress
|Charilaos Florakis
Charilaos Florakis
Charilaos Florakis was a leader of the Communist Party of Greece .Florakis was born on 20 July 1914 in the village of Paliozoglopi, located near Agrafa in the Itamos municipality, prefecture of Karditsa, Greece. He joined KKE, in 1941...


|align="right"|677,059
|align="right"|10.3%
|align="center"|
|align="center"|19
|align="center"|
|-
|Joint Panhellenic Socialist Movement
Panhellenic Socialist Movement
The Panhellenic Socialist Movement , known mostly by its acronym PASOK , is one of the two major political parties in Greece. Founded on 3 September 1974 by Andreas Papandreou, in 1981 PASOK became Greece's first social democratic party to win a majority in parliament.The party is a socialist party...

-Left Coalition
|
|align="right"|66,861
|align="right"|1.0%
|align="center"|
|align="center"|4
|align="center"|
|-
|Alternative Ecologists
Alternative Ecologists
The Alternative Ecologists , officially the Federation of Ecologists and Alternative Groups, was a federation of several groups created after the good performance of an autonomous electoral platform also called Alternative Ecologists in the 1989 European Parliament elections in Greece...


|
|align="right"|50,686
|align="right"|0.8%
|align="center"|
|align="center"|1
|align="center"|
|-
|Independent Muslim List
|
|align="right"|45,981
|align="right"|0.7%
|align="center"|
|align="center"|2
|align="center"|
|-
|Democratic Renewal
Democratic Renewal
Democratic Renewal was a Greek political party founded by Konstantinos Stephanopoulos on September 6, 1985. It continued to exist until June 1994....


|Konstantinos Stefanopoulos
|align="right"|44,077
|align="right"|0.7%
|align="center"|
|align="center"|1
|align="center"|
|-
|Other Green Lists
|
|align="right"|20,041
|align="right"|0.3%
|align="center"|-
|align="center"|-
|align="center"|-
|-
|New Left Current-People's Opposition
|Kostas Kappos
Kostas Kappos
Kostas Kappos was an important Greek communist.During the military junta he was arrested and sent to Lakki in Leros, where he was tortured. He was set free in 1971. In 1972 he became a member of the Office of the Central Secretariat of the Communist Youth of Greece, and in 1973 a member of the...


|align="right"|14,365
|align="right"|0.2%
|align="center"|-
|align="center"|-
|align="center"|-
|-
|Communist Party of Greece (Interior)
Communist Party of Greece (Interior)
The Communist Party of Greece, Interior , usually abbreviated as KKE Interior was a communist political party in Greece. The party was formed after a major split of the Communist Party of Greece in 1968...

-Renewal Left
|
|align="right"|8,827
|align="right"|0.1%
|align="center"|-
|align="center"|-
|align="center"|-
|-
|National Party
|
|align="right"|6,641
|align="right"|0.1%
|align="center"|-
|align="center"|-
|align="center"|-
|-
|Party of Greek Hunters
Party of Greek Hunters
The Party of Greek Hunters, , is a minor Greek political party.Led by Giorgos Tsagkanelias, it advocates the rights of hunters.-Electoral results:...


|
|align="right"|5,060
|align="right"|0.1%
|align="center"|-
|align="center"|-
|align="center"|-
|-
|Nationalist Alignment
|
|align="right"|2,079
|align="right"|0.0%
|align="center"|-
|align="center"|-
|align="center"|-
|-
|Autonomous Movement Workers Politics
|Antonios Halaris
|align="right"|1,174
|align="right"|0.0%
|align="center"|-
|align="center"|-
|align="center"|-
|-
|Olympism Party
|
|align="right"|691
|align="right"|0.0%
|align="center"|-
|align="center"|-
|align="center"|-
|-
|Others
|
|align="right"|11,487
|align="right"|0.0%
|align="center"|-
|align="center"|-
|align="center"|-
|-
|colspan="2"|No. of valid votes
|align="right"|6,586,040
|align="center"|100.00
|align="center" bgcolor="white"| 
|align="center"|300
|align="center" bgcolor="white"| 
|-
|colspan="2"|Invalid votes
|align="right"|112,551
|colspan="4" rowspan="2" bgcolor="white"| 
|-
|colspan="2"|Total
|align="right"|6,698,591
(83.2%)
|-
|colspan=8|Source:
|}


In order to be able to command a majority of 151 in the 300-seat Parliament, New Democracy had to secure the fealty of Theodoros Katsikis, Democratic Renewal's sole MP. Shortly after Mitsotakis was given a confidence vote, Surpreme Special Court, after a mistake in seat calculation was detected, gave New Democracy an 152nd seat.
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