Javascript live poll tracker for Greek elections
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this is actually the 2nd time they're having elections because the previous time didn't manage to form a strong enough coalition.
what surprises me is the 37% abstaining in an election which from what i hear will decide the long-term future of Greece and the Eurozone. it must really mean greeks are fed up with their politics or lost hope that there's a solution to their crisis.
But anyone who needs an explanation of who the parties are might also need an explanation of how the voting system works. From the map it looks like all constituencies were won by blue or purple, with the vast majority going to the blue. But the "distribution of seats" looks like a bunch of different parties are getting seats. On the third hand, it can't possibly just be a proportional representation thing either, because (for instance) the blue party got just over 30% of the vote but appears to be getting almost half the seats.
So am I right in guessing that the parliament is selected by some combination of first-past-the-post winners in constituencies and a bunch of other seats allocated by nationwide proportional representation?
250 of the 300 seats are allocated proportionally among the parties that got over 3% of the vote. The remaining 50 go to the first party.
In fact, because the allocation of parliament seats is calculated on the basis of the total vote and because of the adjustments that this entails for the allocation of constituency seats, you can be the first party in a constituency and yet get fewer seats in that constituency than the second party.