Greek legislative election, 1958

Greek legislative election, 1958

The Greek legislative election of the 19 February 1958 resulted in the second consecutive victory for Constantine Karamanlis and his National Radical Union party.

Constantine Karamanlis took the decision to call for early elections, after some of the most prominent members of the National Radical Union defected from the party, including George Rallis and Panagis Papaligouras. Although Karamanlis could have a parliamentary majority, he preferred to go for elections, in order to achieve a renewed public support.

The pretext of the defection was a new electoral law that Karamanlis passed. Rallis was opposed to the law, thinking that it is going to be extremely favorable for EDA, a party believed to be linked with the outlaw during this period Communist Party of Greece.

The outcome of the results proved that Rallis' "fears" were justified. EDA became the second biggest party, outvoting a divided centre.

Just after the elections Karamanlis formed a new government, taking back in his party the defectors.election-table rowspan=2 colspan=3 valign=top|Summary of the 11 May 1958 Greek Parliament election results!colspan="3" cellpadding="10" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|Votes!colspan="2" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|Seats
- style="background-color:#E9E9E9"!No.!% !align="center"|+− %!align="center"|No.!align="center"|+−
-|
|National Radical Union
Constantine Karamanlis
align="right"
align="right"|41.46
align="center"
align="center"|124
align="center"
-

United Democratic Left
Ioannis Passalidis
align="right"
align="right"|24.42
align="center"
align="center"|73
align="center"
-

Liberal Party
Sophoklis Venizelos
align="right"
align="right"|20.67
align="center"
align="center"|62
align="center"
-

Progressive Rural Democratic Union
Georgios Papandreou
align="right"
align="right"|10.62
align="center"
align="center"|32
align="center"
-

Union of the People's Party
Konstantinos Tsaldaris
align="right"
align="right"|2.94
align="center"
align="center"|9
align="center"
-

Lists of Independents|
align="right"
align="right"|0.1
align="center"
align="center"
align="center"
-

Others|
align="right"
align="right"|0.06
align="center"
align="center"|-
align="center"
-
colspan="3"|Totals
align="right"
align="right"|100.00
align="center" bgcolor="white"|
align="center"|300
align="center" bgcolor="white"|
-
colspan="3"|Constituencies
align="right"
align="right"|55
align="center" bgcolor="white"|
align="center"|300
align="center" bgcolor="white"|
-
colspan="3"|Valid votes
align="right"|3,847,785
align="center"
align="center" bgcolor="white"|
align="center"
align="center" bgcolor="white"|
-
colspan="3"|Invalid votes
align="right"|16,197
align="left"|(0.32%)
align="center" bgcolor="white"|
align="center"
align="center" bgcolor="white"|
-
colspan="3"|Total number of votes
align="right"|3,863,982
align="left"|(75,4%)
align="center" bgcolor="white"|
align="center"
align="center" bgcolor="white"|
-
colspan="3"|Valid electorate
align="right"|5,119,148
align="center"
align="center" bgcolor="white"|
align="center"
align="center" bgcolor="white"|
-
colspan="3"|Population
align="right"|7,395,219
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align="center" bgcolor="white"|
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-
colspan=3|Source: "Texts of Constitutional History", vol. 2, p. 835.
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