Greek legislative election, 1936
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The 26 January 1936 Greek legislative elections were the first held in the restored monarchy
. At stake were 300 seats in the Greek parliament, the Vouli.
rowspan=2 colspan=2 valign=top|Summary of 26 January 1936 Greek Parliament
(Vouli ton Ellinon) election results
!colspan="3" cellpadding="10" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|Votes
!colspan="2" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|Seats
|- style="background-color:#E9E9E9"
!No.
!%
!align="center"|+− %
!align="center"|No.
!align="center"|+−
|-
|Liberal Party
Komma Fileleftheron
|Themistoklis Sophoulis
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|align="right"|37.3
|align="center"|
|align="center"|126
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|-
|People's Party
Laikon Komma
|Panagis Tsaldaris
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|align="right"|22.1
|align="center"|
|align="center"|72
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|-
|General People's Radical Union Geniki Laiki Rizospastiki Enosis
|
|align="right"|
|align="right"|19.9
|align="center"|
|align="center"|60
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|-
|Communist Party of Greece
Kommunistiko Komma Ellados
|Nikolaos Zachariadis
|align="right"|
|align="right"|5.8
|align="center"|
|align="center"|15
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|-
|Democratic Coalition Dimokratikos Sinaspismos
* Democratic Socialist Party
Dimokratiko Sosialistiko Komma
* Progressive Party Proodeftiko Komma
* Farmers’ and Workers’ Party Agrotergatiko Komma
|
George Papandreou
Georgios Kafantaris
Alexandros Papanastasiou
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|align="right"|4.2
|align="center"|
|align="center"|7
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|-
|Freethinkers' Party
Komma Eleftherofronon
|Ioannis Metaxas
|align="right"|
|align="right"|3.9
|align="center"|
|align="center"|7
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|-
|Metarrythmistikon Komma
|Sotirios Gotzamanis
|align="right"|
|align="right"|1.4
|align="center"|
|align="center"|4
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|-
|Democratic Agrarian Party Agrotiko Dimokratiko Komma
|Alexandros Mylonas
|align="right"|
|align="right"|0.9
|align="center"|
|align="center"|4
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|-
|Agrarian Party Agrotiko Komma
|
|align="right"|
|align="right"|1.0
|align="center"|
|align="center"|1
|align="center"|
|-
|National Unionist Party Ethniko Enotiko Komma
|Panayotis Kanellopoulos
|align="right"|505
|align="right"|0.04
|align="center"|
|align="center"|0
|align="center"|
|-
|National People's Party
Ethniko Laiko Komma
|Ioannis Theotokis
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|align="right"|
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|-
|National Radical Party Ethniko Rizospastiko Komma
|Georgios Kondylis
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|Others
|
|align="right"|
|align="right"|2.5
|align="center"|
|align="center"|4
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|colspan="2"|No. of valid votes
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|align="center"|300
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|colspan="2"|Invalid votes
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|colspan="2"|Total
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|colspan="2"|Turnout
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|colspan="2"|Electorate
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|colspan=8|Source: Lar's Election website, "Τα ξυρισμένα «μυαλά» του νεοφασισμού", To Vima
, 26 July 1998;
|}
Kingdom of Greece
The Kingdom of Greece was a state established in 1832 in the Convention of London by the Great Powers...
. At stake were 300 seats in the Greek parliament, the Vouli.
rowspan=2 colspan=2 valign=top|Summary of 26 January 1936 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....
(Vouli ton Ellinon) election results
!colspan="3" cellpadding="10" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|Votes
!colspan="2" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|Seats
|- style="background-color:#E9E9E9"
!No.
!%
!align="center"|+− %
!align="center"|No.
!align="center"|+−
|-
|Liberal Party
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...
Komma Fileleftheron
|Themistoklis Sophoulis
Themistoklis Sophoulis
Themistoklis Sofoulis or Sophoulis was a prominent centrist Greek politician from Samos Island, belonging to the centre-left wing of the Liberal Party, which he led for many years.-Early life:...
|align="right"|
|align="right"|37.3
|align="center"|
|align="center"|126
|align="center"|
|-
|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....
Laikon Komma
|Panagis Tsaldaris
Panagis Tsaldaris
Panagis Tsaldaris was a revered conservative politician and leader for many years of the conservative People's Party in the period before World War II...
|align="right"|
|align="right"|22.1
|align="center"|
|align="center"|72
|align="center"|
|-
|General People's Radical Union Geniki Laiki Rizospastiki Enosis
|
|align="right"|
|align="right"|19.9
|align="center"|
|align="center"|60
|align="center"|
|-
|Communist Party of Greece
Communist Party of Greece
Founded in 1918, the Communist Party of Greece , better known by its acronym, ΚΚΕ , is the oldest party on the Greek political scene.- Foundation :...
Kommunistiko Komma Ellados
|Nikolaos Zachariadis
Nikolaos Zachariadis
Nikolaos Zachariadis was the General Secretary of the Communist Party of Greece from 1931 to 1956.-Early life:Born in Adrianopole in 1903, the son of an employee of the Ottoman tobacco monopoly. He worked as a seaman on the Black Sea, where he came under the influence of the Bolshevik Revolution...
|align="right"|
|align="right"|5.8
|align="center"|
|align="center"|15
|align="center"|
|-
|Democratic Coalition Dimokratikos Sinaspismos
* Democratic Socialist Party
Democratic Socialist Party of Greece
The Democratic Socialist Party of Greece was a political party founded by George Papandreou in 1935.The party emerged from a split in the Liberal Party.The party was replaced in 1950 with the formation of the Georgios Papandreou Party....
Dimokratiko Sosialistiko Komma
* Progressive Party Proodeftiko Komma
* Farmers’ and Workers’ Party Agrotergatiko Komma
|
George Papandreou
George Papandreou (senior)
Georgios Papandreou was a Greek politician, the founder of the Papandreou political dynasty. He served three terms as Prime Minister of Greece...
Georgios Kafantaris
Georgios Kafantaris
Georgios Kafantaris was a Greek politician, born in Anatoliki Fragkista, Evrytania....
Alexandros Papanastasiou
Alexandros Papanastasiou
Alexandros Papanastasiou was a Greek politician, sociologist and Prime Minister.- Early years :Papanastasiou was the son of Member of Parliament Panagiotis Papanastasiou. He spent part of his childhood in Kalamata and Piraeus...
|align="right"|
|align="right"|4.2
|align="center"|
|align="center"|7
|align="center"|
|-
|Freethinkers' Party
Freethinkers' Party (Greece)
The Freethinkers' Party was a royalist party established by Ioannis Metaxas in 1922.The first programmatic declaration of the party was published in the daily Nea Imera on 13 October 1922.- Electoral results :...
Komma Eleftherofronon
|Ioannis Metaxas
Ioannis Metaxas
Ioannis Metaxas was a Greek general, politician, and dictator, serving as Prime Minister of Greece from 1936 until his death in 1941...
|align="right"|
|align="right"|3.9
|align="center"|
|align="center"|7
|align="center"|
|-
|Metarrythmistikon Komma
|Sotirios Gotzamanis
|align="right"|
|align="right"|1.4
|align="center"|
|align="center"|4
|align="center"|
|-
|Democratic Agrarian Party Agrotiko Dimokratiko Komma
|Alexandros Mylonas
|align="right"|
|align="right"|0.9
|align="center"|
|align="center"|4
|align="center"|
|-
|Agrarian Party Agrotiko Komma
|
|align="right"|
|align="right"|1.0
|align="center"|
|align="center"|1
|align="center"|
|-
|National Unionist Party Ethniko Enotiko Komma
|Panayotis Kanellopoulos
|align="right"|505
|align="right"|0.04
|align="center"|
|align="center"|0
|align="center"|
|-
|National People's Party
National People's Party
National People's Party may refer to:* National Peoples Party* Rashtriya Janata Dal* Rashtriya Lok Dal* National People's Party...
Ethniko Laiko Komma
|Ioannis Theotokis
Ioannis Theotokis
Ioannis Theotokis was a Greek politician. He was born in Athens 1880, he was the son of Georgios Theotokis.He was elected a member of the Hellenic Parliament seven times and served as Minister for Agriculture three times, before being shortly Prime Minister of a caretaker government in 1950. He...
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|align="right"|
|align="center"|
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|National Radical Party Ethniko Rizospastiko Komma
|Georgios Kondylis
Georgios Kondylis
Georgios Kondylis was a general of the Greek army and Prime Minister of Greece. He was nicknamed Keravnos, Greek for "Thunder" or "Thunderbolt".-Military career:...
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|align="right"|
|align="center"|
|align="center"|
|align="center"|
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|Others
|
|align="right"|
|align="right"|2.5
|align="center"|
|align="center"|4
|align="center"|
|-
|colspan="2"|No. of valid votes
|align="right"|
|align="center"|
|align="center" bgcolor="white"|
|align="center"|300
|align="center" bgcolor="white"|
|-
|colspan="2"|Invalid votes
|align="right"|
|colspan="4" rowspan="2" bgcolor="white"|
|-
|colspan="2"|Total
|align="right"|
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|colspan="2"|Turnout
|align="right"|
|colspan="4" rowspan="2" bgcolor="white"|
|-
|colspan="2"|Electorate
|align="right"|
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|colspan=8|Source: Lar's Election website, "Τα ξυρισμένα «μυαλά» του νεοφασισμού", To Vima
To Vima
To Vima is a Greek daily newspaper first published in 1922 by Dimitris Lambrakis, the father of Christos Lambrakis. It is owned by Lambrakis Press Group, a group which also publishes the newspaper Ta Nea, amongst others in its fold of publications...
, 26 July 1998;
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