1999 European Parliament election in Greece

13 June 1999
25 seats in the European Parliament
Majority party Minority party Third party   130x130px 130x130px 130x130px Leader Kostas Karamanlis Costas Simitis Aleka Papariga Party ND PASOK KKE Last election 32.66%, 9 seats 37.64%, 10 seats 6.29%, 2 seats Seats won 9 9 3 Seat change 1 1 Popular vote 2,314,371 2,115,844 557,365 Percentage 36.00% 32.91% 8.67% Swing 3.34pp 4.73pp 2.38pp   Fourth party Fifth party   Leader Dimitris Tsovolas Nikos Konstantopoulos Party DIKKI Synaspismos Last election – 6.25%, 2 seats Seats won 2 2 Seat change New Popular vote 440,191 331,928 Percentage 6.85% 5.16% Swing New 1.09pp

European Parliament elections were held in Greece on 13 June 1999 to elect the 25 Greek members to the European Parliament. Members were elected by party-list proportional representation with a 3% threshold for any party.

Results

The 1999 European election was the fifth election to the European Parliament. The opposition conservative New Democracy party made gains as did the Communist Party of Greece, while the ruling PASOK lost ground. Two parties on the left, the relatively new Democratic Social Movement and the Coalition of the Left and Progress elected two MEPs each. Political Spring, which had elected 2 MEPs in 1994, was unsuccessful in passing the 3% threshold and did not elect any members.