- Greek Senate election, 1929
The Senate was a new institution introduced with the
Greek Constitution of 1927 . In 1929 the first elections for the Senate took place and resulted in a triumph for the Liberal Party,Eleftherios Venizelos and the other venizelist parties.Nevertheless, this result was expected after the victory of
Eleftherios Venizelos in the legislative elections of 1928 and it was regarded as a public approval of Venizelos' policies.Notably, this new institution, the Senate, did not last long.
election-table rowspan=2 colspan=3 valign=top|Summary of
21 April 1929 Greek Senate 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"|+−
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Liberal Party "Komma Fileleftheron"Eleftherios Venizelos
align="right"
align="right"|54.58
align="center"
align="center"|64
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Democratic Union "Demokratiki Enosis"Alexandros Papanastasiou
align="right"
align="right"|6.58
align="center"
align="center"|4
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-|
People's Party "Laikon Komma"Panayotis Tsaldaris
align="right"
align="right"|19.05
align="center"
align="center"|10
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-|
Independent RoyalistsCharalampos Vozikis
align="right"
align="right"|4.28
align="center"
align="center"|-
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Conservative Democratic Party "Syntiritiko Demokratikon Komma"Andreas Michalakopoulos
align="right"
align="right"|2.81
align="center"
align="center"|5
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-|
Progressive Union "Proodeftiki Enosis"Konstantinos Zavitsanos
align="right"
align="right"|1.19
align="center"
align="center"|2
align="center"
-|
Progressive Party "Proodeftikon Komma"Georgios Kafantaris
align="right"
align="right"|4.2
align="center"
align="center"|3
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Freethinkers' Party "Komma Eleftherofronon"Ioannis Metaxas
align="right"
align="right"|2.73
align="center"
align="center"|2
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Agrarian Party "Agrotikon Komma"|
align="right"
align="right"|1.66
align="center"
align="center"|2
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United Front (Communist Party of Greece "Kommunistikon Komma Ellados")|
align="right"
align="right"|1.7
align="center"
align="center"|-
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Independent Democrats
align="right"
align="right"|1.2
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align="center"|-
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Others |
align="right"
align="right"|0.02
align="center"
align="center"|-
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-
colspan="3"
align="right"
align="center"|100
align="center" bgcolor="white"|
align="center"|92
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colspan="3"|Constituencies
align="right"
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align="center"|37
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colspan="3"|No. of valid votes
align="right"|825,655
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colspan="3"|Invalid votes
align="right"|11,262
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colspan="3"|Total
align="right"|836,917
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colspan="3"|Turnout
align="right"|%
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colspan="3"|Electorate
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colspan=9|Source: "Texts of Constitutional History", Volume II (1924-1974), page 370
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