Greek legislative election, 1946

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Parliamentary elections were held in Greece on 31 March 1946.^[1] The result was a victory for the United Alignment of Nationalists, an alliance that included the People's Party, the National Liberal Party, the Reform Party,^[2] which won 206 of the 354 seats in Parliament.^[3] As a result Konstantinos Tsaldaris became Prime Minister leading a right-wing coalition. Nonetheless, he soon decided to resign in favor of Themistoklis Sophoulis, who led a government of national unity (conservative and centre-liberal forces) during the entire second phase of the civil war (1946–1949). One of the priorities of the new government was the proclamation of a plebiscite for the restoration of the Greek monarchy.

The elections were marked by the boycott of the Communist Party of Greece in protest against the unfolding, state-tolerated White Terror against the former members of EAM-ELAS. One of the reasons for the defeat of the centre-liberal parties was the division of the Liberal Party, founded by Eleftherios Venizelos. One faction remained loyal to the leadership of Themistoklis Sophoulis, while another faction followed Sophoklis Venizelos, who formed a coalition with Georgios Papandreou and Panayiotis Kanellopoulos.

Results

Party	Votes	%	Seats
United Alignment of Nationalists^[a]	610,995	55.12	206
National Political Union^[b]	213,721	19.28	68
Liberal Party	159,525	14.39	48
National Party of Greece	66,027	5.96	20
Union of Nationalists	32,538	2.94	9
List of Independents	12,036	1.08	2
Union of Agrarian Parties	7,447	0.67	1
Party X	1,848	0.17	0
Civil and Agricultural Party	1,114	0.10	0
Parataxis of Orthodox Christian Greeks	298	0.03	0
Patriotic Party of Reservists	63	0.01	0
Party for the National Union	15	0.00	0
Socialist Party	13	0.00	0
Independents	2,833	0.25	0
Invalid/blank votes	13,223	–	–
Total	1,121,696	100	354
Source: Nohlen & Stöver, Global Elections Database

^a Within the United Alignment the People's Party won 156 seats, the National Liberal Party 34, the Reform Party five and others 11.

^b Within the National Political Union the Party of Venizelian Liberals won 31 seats, the National Unionist Party 27, the Democratic Socialist Party 7 seats and others three.

Popular vote

HPE			55.12%
EPE			19.28%
KF			14.39%
EKE			5.96%
EE			2.94%
Others			2.32%

Parliament seats

HPE			58.19%
EPE			19.21%
KF			13.56%
EKE			5.65%
EE			2.54%
Others			0.85%

References

↑ Nohlen, D & Stöver, P (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p830 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
↑ Nohlen & Stöver, p843
↑ Nohlen & Stöver, p859

Elections and referendums in Greece

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Greek Civil War

Background	4th of August Regime Axis occupation of Greece Greek Resistance National Liberation Front Greek People's Liberation Army National Republican Greek League Collaborationist governments Security Battalions Greek government-in-exile Red Terror Lebanon Conference Caserta Agreement Dekemvriana Treaty of Varkiza White Terror 1946 general elections 1946 monarchy referendum

Events	Litochoro attack Truman Doctrine Battle of Konitsa Thessaloniki bombing Operation Charavgi Operation Koronis Operation Peristera Operation Pyravlos Tito–Stalin split Operation Pyrsos

Communists	Communist Party of Greece National Liberation Front Provisional Democratic Government Democratic Army of Greece Popular Civil Guard Nikos Zachariadis Markos Vafiadis

National Government	George II of Greece Paul of Greece Archbishop Damaskinos of Athens Themistoklis Sofoulis Konstantinos Tsaldaris Alexandros Papagos Konstantinos Ventiris Dimitrios Giatzis Thrasyvoulos Tsakalotos James Van Fleet Hellenic Army Royal Hellenic Air Force Greek Gendarmerie Rural Security Units

Impact and aftermath	Refugees of the Greek Civil War Makronisos Sacred Bond of Greek Officers Centrist Interlude Greek military junta of 1967–74 Metapolitefsi

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