2010 Greek local elections

The 2010 Greek local elections were held on 7 November 2010 (first round) and 14 November 2010 (second round) to elect representatives to Greece's restructured local authorities, comprising 13 regions and 325 municipalities.

2010 Greek local elections

7 & 14 November 2010

Regions won by

– PASOK

– Nea Dimokratia
The ballot boxes for the 2010 elections: for the regions (left) and the municipalities (right)

Background

Traditionally, candidates at local elections do not run under the official name of any party as the constitution only foresees the participation of electoral lists (or "combinations") and not parties. Despite this theoretical independence and distinction, for all practical purposes most candidates run as local front organisations for political parties.[1]

The election also comes at a time of increasing unrest in Greece following numerous bombs being sent to foreign embassies,[2] as well protests against austerity measures forced by the EU and IMF in order for Greece to receive external financial support.

Issues

With the economy being touted as the mandate sought in the election Prime Minister George Papandreou said he would dissolve the national parliament should the candidates of his Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK) fail to win an unspecified threshold. "Citizens will decide in today's election if we will hold steady on the path of salvation... or if we will go back to decay and to the Greece of bankruptcy."[3]

Election results

Major municipalities

In the municipalities, as well as the regions, any candidate can participate in the first round. If the leading candidate doesn't have the required 50%+1 of the votes, then a second round is held between the two leading candidates of the first round.

Athens

CandidateSupporting Party1st round %2nd round %Seats
Georgios Kaminis  Panhellenic Socialist Movement -  Ecologist Greens -  Democratic Left-  Portokali (Drasi & Liberal Alliance)28.2851.9529
Nikitas Kaklamanis  New Democracy -  Popular Orthodox Rally34.9748.0511
Nikolaos Sofianos  Communist Party of Greece13.743
Georgios Amyras  Independent7.372
Eleni Portaliou  Coalition of Radical Left5.82
Nikolaos Michaloliakos  Golden Dawn5.291
Petros Konstantinou  Anticapitalist Left Cooperation for the Overthrow2.871
Michail Iliadis  Koinonia1.68

Thessaloniki

CandidateSupporting Party1st Round %2nd Round %Seats
Ioannis Boutaris  Panhellenic Socialist Movement -  Democratic Left-  Drasi33.5850.1629
Konstantinos Gioulekas  New Democracy37.9149.8413
Sotirios Zarianopoulos  Communist Party of Greece9.52
Stelios Papathemelis  Independent6.042
Triantafyllos Mitafidis  Coalition of Radical Left3.671
Armodios Stergiou  Popular Orthodox Rally3.581
Christos Matis  Ecologist Greens3.451
Zisis Klisiaris  Anticapitalist Left Cooperation for the Overthrow1.28
Konstantinos Vasilikos  Golden Dawn1.0

Heraklion

CandidateSupporting Party1st Round %2nd Round %Seats
Ioannis Kourakis  Panhellenic Socialist Movement71.8235
Emmanouil Sintichakis  Communist Party of Greece12.136
Anastasios Iliadakis  Independent9.555
Konstantinos Kabitakis  Coalition of Radical Left &   Ecologist Greens6.53

Patras

CandidateSupporting Party1st Round %2nd Round %Seats
Ioannis Dimaras (Patras)  Coalition of Radical Left -  Democratic Left21.1353.6329
Dimitrios Katsikopoulos  Panhellenic Socialist Movement35.0746.379
Konstantinos Christopoulos  New Democracy17.74
Konstantinos Peletidis  Communist Party of Greece16.524
Christos Patouchas  Anticapitalist Left Cooperation for the Overthrow4.481
Andreas Tzouramanis  Independent2.641
Dimitrios Aivalis  Independent2.461

Piraeus

CandidateSupporting Party1st Round %2nd Round %Seats
Vasilios Michaloliakos  New Democracy23.0851.7629
Ioannis Michas  Panhellenic Socialist Movement29.6148.248
Petros Mantouvalos  Popular Orthodox Rally18.735
Elpida Pantelaki  Communist Party of Greece14.774
List of candidates entitled "Alliance for Piraeus"  Coalition of Radical Left -  Democratic Left -  Ecologist Greens7.582
Antonios Kalogerogiannos  Independent3.441
Athanasios Diavolakis  Anticapitalist Left Cooperation for the Overthrow2.71

Peristeri

CandidateSupporting Party1st Round %2nd Round %Seats
Andreas Pachatouridis  Independent49.7665.6227
Dimitrios Kelafas  Democratic Left14.5434.389
Konstantinos Lalenis  Panhellenic Socialist Movement12.623
Grigoris Timplalexis  Communist Party of Greece12.543
Sofia Alexopoulou  Coalition of Radical Left3.851
Athanasios Vathiotis  Independent3.731
Antonia Athanasopoulou  Anticapitalist Left Cooperation for the Overthrow2.961

Regions

Source: Hellenic Ministry of the Interior

Attica

CandidateSupporting Party1st Round %Seats2nd Round %SeatsTotal seats
Ioannis Sgouros  Panhellenic Socialist Movement342,55524.0512522,83852.874961
Vasileios Kikilias  New Democracy292,11320.4411466,13447.13112
Ioannis Dimaras (Athens)  Independent †227,31415.9688
Thanasis Pafilis  Communist Party of Greece205,74214.4588
Adonis Georgiadis  Popular Orthodox Rally93,5806.5733
Alexios Mitropoulos  Coalition of Radical Left §88,7036.2833
Konstantinos Diakos  Ecologist Greens57,5284.0422
Grigoris Psarianos  Democratic Left54,2483.8122
Aggelos Hagios  Anticapitalist Left Cooperation for the Overthrow32,5472.2911
Alekos Alavanos  Independent ‡30,8162.1611

Notes:
† Ioannis Dimaras was elected a parliament member with Panhellenic Socialist Movement in the National Elections of 2009.

§ Alexios Mitropoulos is a member of the National Council of the Panhellenic Socialist Movement.

‡ Alekos Alavanos is a prominent member of the Coalition of Radical Left, and although his party didn't support him officially, some fractions such as KOE, DEA and KEDA did.

Central Greece

CandidateSupporting Party1st Round %Seats2nd Round %SeatsTotal seats
Klearchos Pergantas  Panhellenic Socialist Movement126,02039.0210130,18952.932131
Athanasios Cheimaras  New Democracy116,39935.29115,76647.07413
Georgios Marinos  Communist Party of Greece35,95410.8733
Nikolaos Papandreou  Popular Orthodox Rally26,3247.9622
Nikolaos Stoupis  Coalition of Radical Left12,3193.711
Despoina Spanoudi  Ecologist Greens-  Democratic Left10,7533.2511

Central Macedonia

CandidateSupporting Party1st Round %Seats2nd Round %SeatsTotal seats
Panagiotis PsomiadisNew Democracy421,85943.1916406,89052.562743
Markos BolarisPanhellenic Socialist Movement299,63330.6811367,27247.44819
Theodosios KonstantinidisCommunist Party of Greece88,7399.0933
Kyriakos VelopoulosPopular Orthodox Rally64,2366.5822
Anastasios KourakisCoalition of Radical Left35,5363.6411
Michael TremopoulosEcologist Greens30,3583.1111
Asimina Xyrotyri-AsimakiDemocratic Left19,7242.0211
Ioannis KoutrasAnticapitalist Left Cooperation for the Overthrow16,6441.7011

Crete

CandidateSupporting Party1st Round %Seats
Stavros Arnaoutakis  Panhellenic Socialist Movement165,72650.331
Dimitrios Giannoulakis  Independent †57,73517.527
Ioannis Plakiotakis  New Democracy49,02514.886
Stylianos Orfanos  Communist Party of Greece22,8636.933
Georgios Stathakis  Coalition of Radical Left16,2244.922
Antonios Anipsitakis  Ecologist Greens-  Democratic Left12,6163.831
Serafeim Rizos  Anticapitalist Left Cooperation for the Overthrow5,3021.611

Notes:
† Dimitrios Giannoulakis was independent at the time of the elections, but was supported by Dora Bakoyannis and is closely related to her newly founded Democratic Alliance party

Eastern Macedonia and Thrace

CandidateSupporting Party1st Round %Seats2nd Round %SeatsTotal seats
Aris Giannakidis  Panhellenic Socialist Movement150,25741.7511158,26251.492031
Giorgos Pavlidis  New Democracy147,84541.0811149,10148,51516
Christos Trellis  Communist Party of Greece27,8527.7422
Dimitris Charitou  Coalition of the Radical Left16,6094.6211
Athanasios Makris  Ecologist Greens10,7873.0011
Georgios Botsidis  Anticapitalist Left Cooperation for the Overthrow6,5231.81

Epirus

CandidateSupporting Party1st Round %Seats2nd Round %SeatsTotal seats
Alexandros KachrimanisNew Democracy & Popular Orthodox Rally100,46544.761297,66755.041931
Evangelos ArgyrisPanhellenic Socialist Movement86,89338.71079,77544.96616
Konstantinos KonstantisCommunist Party of Greece18,7668.3622
Ioannis PapadimitriouCoalition of Radical Left8,0543.5911
Nikolos ZikosAnticapitalist Left Cooperation for the Overthrow5,9152.6311
Georgios ZapsasEcologist Greens-Democratic Left4,4071.96

Ionian Islands

CandidateSupporting Party1st Round %Seats2nd Round %SeatsTotal seats
Spyridon SpyrouNew Democracy34,30230.4643,33050.801925
Ilias BeriatosPanhellenic Socialist Movement28,83225.55541,96649.2016
Giorgos KaloudisIndependent22.29019.7644
Theodoros GoulisCommunist Party of Greece17,22615.333
Theodoros GalatsiatosCoalition of Radical Left & Ecologist Greens4,9404.3811
Sotirios VlachosDemocratic Left2,6912.3911
Antonia LachaniotiAnticapitalist Left Cooperation for the Overthrow2,5092.2211

North Aegean

CandidateSupporting Party1st round %Seats2nd round %SeatsTotal seats
Athanasios GiakalisPanhellenic Socialist Movement38,95236.32843,15150.771725
Pavlos VogiatzisNew Democracy & Popular Orthodox Rally41,05438.28841,84249.23311
Efstratios KorakasCommunist Party of Greece16,87715.7433
Vasileios TentomasCoalition of Radical Left4,5174.2111
Ilias GiannirisEcologist Greens3,4533.2211
Ignatios TsirpelisAnticapitalist Left Cooperation for the Overthrow2,3932.23

Peloponnese

CandidateSupporting Party1st Round %Seats2nd Round %SeatsTotal seats
Petros TatoulisPanhellenic Socialist Movement & Popular Orthodox Rally157,59741.7111156,96052.532031
Dimitrios DrakosNew Democracy154,69140.9411141,86347.47516
Nikolaos GontikasCommunist Party of Greece25,6696.7922
Athanasios PetrakosCoalition of Radical Left14,8353.9322
Lambros BouklisEcologist Greens7,2121.9111
Panagiotis KatsarisAnticapitalist Left Cooperation for the Overthrow6,4431.71
Georgios TsogasDemocratic Left5,9201.57
Theodoros SabaziotisGolden Dawn5,4681.45

South Aegean

CandidateSupporting Party1st round %Seats
Ioannis MachairidisPanhellenic Socialist Movement86,73550.931
Charalambos KokkinosNew Democracy52,97331.0813
Efthalia KafantariCommunist Party of Greece15,4019.044
Nikolaos SyrmaleniosCoalition of Radical Left8,7515.142
Nikolaos ChrysogelosEcologist Greens6,5583.851

Thessaly

CandidateSupporting Party1st Round %Seats2nd Round %SeatsTotal seats
Konstantinos AgorastosNew Democracy170,32338.5910174,13450.562131
Apostolos PapatoliasPanhellenic Socialist Movement153,82134.859170,27349.44413
Evangelos BoutasCommunist Party of Greece57,83113.13
Asterios RondoulisPopular Orthodox Rally19,5924.441
Konstantinos PoulakisCoalition of Radical Left13,5713.081
Dimitrios KouretasEcologist Greens12,0152.721
Theofanis GenikomsiouAnticapitalist Left Cooperation for the Overthrow7,4441.691
Athanasios ZacharopoulosDemocratic Left6,7201.52

West Greece

CandidateSupporting Party1st Round %Seats2nd Round %SeatsTotal seats
Apostolos KatsifarasPanhellenic Socialist Movement169,00243.3211142,89156.632031
Georgios PapanastasiouNew Democracy104,14826.77109,41843.37512
Nikolaos KarathanasopoulosCommunist Party of Greece43,45511.1433
Konstantinos PapakonstantinouEcologist Greens15,9694.0911
Nikolaos TsoukalisDemocratic Left15,0773.8611
Vasilis ChatzilambrouCoalition of Radical Left14,4153.711
Alexandros ChrysanthakopoulosPopular Orthodox Rally11.8423.0411
Dimitrios DesyllasAnticapitalist Left Cooperation for the Overthrow8,8922.2811
Christos RigasGolden Dawn7,3181.88

West Macedonia

CandidateSupporting Party1st Round %Seats2nd Round %SeatsTotal seats
Konstantinos DakisNew Democracy89,27346.31279,21651.811931
Ioannis PapaiordanidisPanhellenic Socialist Movement74,05038.41073,67548.19616
Antonios TsakonasCommunist Party of Greece15,8518.2222
Antonis KyrinasCoalition of Radical Left & Ecologists Greens6,2833.2611
Pavlos AltinisPopular Orthodox Rally4,6192.411
Spyridon KonstantinidisAnticapitalist Left Cooperation for the Overthrow2,7551.43

Councils and Councillors of the regions

Party Councils Councillors
Gain Loss Change Total Gain Loss Change Total
PASOK 7 n/a n/a 7 342 n/a n/a 342
ND 3 n/a n/a 3 180 n/a n/a 180
New Democracy/
Popular Orthodox Rally
2 n/a n/a 2 80 n/a n/a 80
Panhellenic Socialist Movement/
Popular Orthodox Rally
1 n/a n/a 1 31 n/a n/a 31
KKE 0 n/a n/a 0 42 n/a n/a 42
Coalition of the Radical Left 0 n/a n/a 0 15 n/a n/a 15
LAOS 0 n/a n/a 0 10 n/a n/a 10
OP 0 n/a n/a 0 9 n/a n/a 9
Anticapitalist Left Cooperation for the Overthrow 0 n/a n/a 0 7 n/a n/a 7
DIMAR 0 n/a n/a 0 5 n/a n/a 5
Coalition of Radical Left
Ecologist Greens
0 n/a n/a 0 2 n/a n/a 2
Ecologist Greens/
Democratic Left
0 n/a n/a 0 2 n/a n/a 2
Summary 13 725

Nationwide percentage results

Party Nationwide
results
Change from the
2009 parliamentary elections
PASOK 34.7 -9.3
ND 32.8 -0.7
KKE 10.9 +3.4
Coalition of the Radical Left 5.0 +0.4
LAOS 4.0 -1.6
OP 2.8 +0.3
DIMAR 2.2 +2.2
Anticapitalist Left Cooperation for the Overthrow 1.8 +1.4
All others 5.9

Reaction

The government saw its share of vote drop by 9% but it remained the largest party. Prime Minister Papandreou said that he would continue with tough austerity measures to alleviate Greece's debt burden following a narrow victory in the election.[4]

References

  1. "Making sense of the ballot Archived 2010-11-10 at the Wayback Machine", Athens News, 5 November 2010, p. 8.
  2. "Greek police defuse another bomb". www.aljazeera.com.
  3. "Greece votes in local polls". www.aljazeera.com.
  4. "George Papandreou risks sparking class war over austerity cuts". the Guardian. December 19, 2010.
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