IFES Election Guide | Country Profile: Greece

Name	Official Name	Type
Greek Parliament	Vouli ton Ellinon	Assembly
Presidency of Greece	None	Head of State

Chief of State: President Prokopis PAVLOPOULOS
Head of Government: Prime Minister Alexis TSIPRAS
Assembly: Greece has a unicameral Parliament (Vouli ton Ellinon) with 300 seats.

The President is elected by parliament to serve a 5-year term.
The Prime Minister is appointed by the President.
In the Parliament (Vouli ton Ellinon), 250 members are elected through an open-list proportional representation system to serve 4-year terms and 50 members are allocated for the party that wins a plurality of votes.
- There is a national threshold of 3 percent. The party winning a plurality of votes automatically is awarded 50 seats , and the remaining seats are allocated proportionally among all parties clearing the threshold. The 250 regular seats are divided among 56 constituencies: 48 multi-member and 8 single-member. If an election was held during the previous 18 months, the list is closed instead of open.

Election For	Date	Votes	Registered Voters	Turn Out
Greek Parliament	2000-04-09	7,020,626	9,364,900	74.97%
Greek Parliament	2004-03-07	7,544,291	9,865,440	76.47%
Presidency of Greece	2005-02-08	279	300	93.0%
Greek Parliament	2007-09-16	7,355,026	9,918,917	74.15%
Greek Parliament	2009-10-04	7,044,479	9,933,385	70.92%
Presidency of Greece	2010-02-03	300	300	100.0%
Greek Parliament	2012-05-06	6,476,751	9,949,401	65.1%
Greek Parliament	2012-06-17	6,216,798	9,947,876	62.49%
Presidency of Greece	2014-12-17	300	300	100.0%
Presidency of Greece	2014-12-23	300	300	100.0%
Presidency of Greece	2014-12-29	300	300	100.0%
Greek Parliament	2015-01-25	6,330,786	9,911,495	63.87%
Presidency of Greece	2015-02-18	295	300	98.33%
Referendum	2015-07-05	6,161,140	9,858,508	62.5%
Greek Parliament	2015-09-20	5,566,295	9,840,525	56.57%
Greek Parliament	2019-07-07	5,769,542	9,962,261	57.91%
Greek Parliament	2023-06-08	-	-	-