1926 Greek legislative election

Parliamentary elections were held in Greece on 7 November 1926.[1] The Liberal Union emerged as the largest faction in Parliament with 108 of the 286 seats.[2] The composition of the new parliament meant that the parties and factions had to work together to form a viable parliamentary government. On Kafandaris' initiative, negotiations began among the main parties, leading to the swearing-in on the 4 December of a government under the premiership of Alexandros Zaimis who was not a member of parliament. The coalition consisted of the Liberal Union, the Democratic Union, the People's Party and the Freethinkers' Party. This government came to be known as the "Ecumenical government".

1926 Greek legislative election

7 November 1926
All 286 seats of the Greek Parliament 144 seats were needed for a majority
Leader Eleftherios Venizelos Panagis Tsaldaris Ioannis Metaxas Party Liberal People's Party KE Leader since 1910 1922 1922 Last election 250 seats Did not participate New Seats won 108 60 52 Seat change 142 Did not participate New Popular vote 303,140 194,243 151,044 Percentage 33.13% 21.23% 16.51%   Leader Alexandros Papanastasiou Collective Leadership Party DE EMEAP AKE Leader since 1923 1926 Last election 120 seats New New Seats won 17 10 4 Seat change 103 New New Popular vote 62,086 41,982 28,318 Percentage 6.79% 4.59% 3.10%
Prime Minister before election Georgios Kondylis DE Elected Prime Minister Alexandros Zaimis Independent

Results

Party	Votes	%	Seats
Liberal Union	303,140	31.6	108
People's Party	194,243	20.3	60
Freethinkers' Party	151,044	15.8	52
Democratic Union	62,086	6.5	17
United Electoral Front of Workers, Farmers and Refugees	41,982	4.4	10
Hellenic Agricultural Party	28,318	3.0	4
Party of Independents and Refugees	17,410	1.8	2
Liaison of United Anti-Venizelists	14,088	1.5	4
Liberal Refugee Party	13,798	1.4	4
Conservative Union	12,661	1.3	3
Provincial Party	9,728	1.0	2
Co-operation Agricultural Party	8,530	0.9	3
Party of Democratic Liberals	7,475	0.8	3
Liaison of Independent Democrat-Venizelists	5,942	0.6	3
Hebrew Political Union	5,846	0.6	2
Liaison of Independent Liberals	5,846	0.6	1
Liaison of Moderate Conservatives	5,463	0.6	1
Liaison of Independent Anti-Venizelists	5,367	0.6	1
Agricultural Refugee Liaison	5,079	0.5	1
Macedonian OMAS Liaison	5,079	0.5	2
National Believers Popular Party	4,888	0.5	1
Liaison of Independents (Trikala Prefecture)	3,450	0.4	1
Liaison of Popular-Free Believers	3,450	0.4	1
Invalid/blank votes	3,912	–	–
Total	918,825^[a]	100	286
Registered voters/turnout	1,567,378	61.4	–
Source: Nohlen & Stöver

^a The Electoral Committees reported a total votes figure of 962,304. However, this was due to a flaw in their minutes.[3]

References

1. Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p829 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
2. Nohlen & Stöver, p857
3. Nohlen & Stöver, p840