1946 Greek parliamentary election

none Kingdom of Greece state parliamentary 1936 Greek parliamentary election 1936 1950 Greek parliamentary election 1950 All 354 seats in the Hellenic Parliament 178 31 March 1946 80-G-702560 cropped tsaldaris.png Konstantinos Tsaldaris NPE 22.10%, 72 seats 206 134 610,995 55.12% 33.02 pp 0000FF Sophoklis_Venizelos,_1921.png Sofoklis Venizelos EPE 11 seats, 5.01% 68 57 213,721 19.28% 14.27 pp 90EE90 Themistoklis_Sofoulis.jpg Themistoklis Sofoulis Liberal Party (Greece) 37.26%, 126 seats 48 78 159,525 14.39% 22.87 pp Napoleon_Zervas.JPG 350 110 150 20 95 center Napoleon Zervas National Party of Greece – 20 New 66,027 5.96% New 6600FF Prime Minister Prime Minister after election Themistoklis Sofoulis Liberal Party (Greece) Konstantinos Tsaldaris People's Party (Greece) Parliamentary elections were held in Greece on 31 March 1946.Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p830 978-3-8329-5609-7 The result was a victory for the United Alignment of Nationalists, an alliance that included the People's Party, the National Liberal Party, and the Reform Party,Nohlen & Stöver, p843 which won 206 of the 354 seats in Parliament.Nohlen & Stöver, p859 As a result, Konstantinos Tsaldaris became Prime Minister leading a right-wing coalition. Nonetheless, he soon decided to resign in favor of Themistoklis Sofoulis, 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 claiming in protest against the unfolding, state-tolerated White Terror against the former members of EAM-ELAS. The night before the elections, a communist band attacked a police station in Litochoro. This event is considered the beginning of the three years civil war. 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 Sofoulis, while another faction followed Sofoklis Venizelos, who formed a coalition with Georgios Papandreou and Panagiotis Kanellopoulos. The American, French and British governments sent election monitors to observe the election.Jessen Raymond J. Kempthorne Oscar Daly Joseph F. Deming W. Edwards 1949 Observations on the 1946 Elections in Greece https://www.jstor.org/stable/2086440 American Sociological Review 14 1 11–16 10.2307/2086440 0003-1224 subscription Prévost Jean-Guy 2018 The 1946 Allied Mission to Observe Greek Elections https://journals.openedition.org/histoiremesure/8146 Histoire & mesure en XXXIII 2 163–192 10.4000/histoiremesure.8146 0982-1783 subscription Results United Alignment of NationalistsIncluded the People's Party (156 seats), the National Liberal Party (34), the Reform Party (5) and others (11) 610995 206 #0000FF National Political UnionIncluded the Party of Venizelist Liberals (31 seats), the National Unionist Party (27), the Democratic Socialist Party (7) and others (3) 213721 68 #90EE90 Liberal Party 159525 48 National Party of Greece 66027 20 Union of Nationalists 32538 9 List of Independents 12036 2 Union of Agrarian Parties 7447 1 Party X 1848 0 Civil and Agricultural Party 1114 0 Parataxis of Orthodox Christian Greeks 298 0 Patriotic Party of Reservists 63 0 Party for the National Union 15 0 Socialist Party 13 0 Independents 2833 0 13223 +54 Nohlen & Stöver, Global Elections Database References Category:Parliamentary elections in Greece Parliamentary Category:1940s in Greek politics Greece Category:Greek Civil War Greece Category:Election and referendum articles with incomplete results Parliamentary