Country: | Greece |
Type: | parliamentary |
Previous Election: | November 1989 Greek legislative election |
Previous Year: | November 1989 |
Next Election: | 1993 Greek legislative election |
Next Year: | 1993 |
Seats For Election: | All 300 seats in the Hellenic Parliament |
Majority Seats: | 151 |
Election Date: | 8 April 1990 |
Image1: | Mitsotakis 1992.jpg |
Party1: | New Democracy (Greece) |
Last Election1: | 46.19%, 148 seats |
Seats1: | 150 |
Seat Change1: | 2 |
Popular Vote1: | 3,088,137 |
Percentage1: | 46.89% |
Swing1: | 0.70pp |
Leader2: | Andreas Papandreou |
Party2: | PASOK |
Last Election2: | 40.68%, 128 seats |
Seats2: | 123 |
Seat Change2: | 5 |
Popular Vote2: | 2,543,042 |
Percentage2: | 38.61% |
Swing2: | 2.07pp |
Image3: | Charilaos Florakis.JPG |
Leader3: | Charilaos Florakis |
Party3: | Synaspismos |
Last Election3: | 10.97%, 21 seats |
Seats3: | 19 |
Seat Change3: | 2 |
Popular Vote3: | 677,059 |
Percentage3: | 10.28% |
Swing3: | 0.69pp |
Prime Minister | |
Posttitle: | Prime Minister after election |
Before Election: | Xenophon Zolotas |
Before Party: | Independent (politics) |
After Election: | Constantine Mitsotakis |
After Party: | New Democracy (Greece) |
Early parliamentary elections were held in Greece on 8 April 1990.[1] The conservative New Democracy party of Constantine Mitsotakis, was elected, defeating PASOK of Andreas Papandreou. In order to be able to command a majority of 151 in the 300-seat Parliament, New Democracy had to secure the support of Theodoros Katsikis, Democratic Renewal's sole MP. Shortly after Mitsotakis was given a confidence vote, the Supreme Special Court, after a mistake in seat calculation was detected, gave a 152nd seat to the coalition of New Democracy and Democratic Renewal.