New Democracy leadership election, 2009
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29 November 2009 (first round) not present (second round) |
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The 2009 New Democracy leadership election was held on 29 November 2009, following the official announcement of the resignation of Kostas Karamanlis, after more than 12 years (since 21 March 1997) as leader of New Democracy, the main centre-right political party and one of the two major parties in Greece (at that time, the other of the two major parties was PASOK, the social democratic and center-left political party).
Karamanlis announced that he would start procedures for the election of a new president on 4 October 2009, after the defeat of majority party New Democracy in the 2009 Greek legislative election, which was held in the same day.[1] Antonis Samaras succeeded Karamanlis as the party's leader having won 50.06 percent of the votes at first round: for this reason, no second round was required and Samaras took office in 30 November 2009 as ND party President and Leader of Opposition (against PASOK and George Papandreou's cabinet).
Results
The results of the election.[2]
Candidate |
Main political office |
Votes |
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Antonis Samaras |
Minister for Culture and Sport from 8 January 2009 to 6 October 2009 in the second cabinet of Kostas Karamanlis |
386,400 |
50.06 |
Dora Bakoyannis |
elected Mayor of Athens in October 2002 local election, she took office from 1 January 2003 to 14 February 2006, first female Mayor of Athens. |
306,625 |
39.72 |
Panagiotis Psomiadis |
MP elected in 1990, 1993, 1996, 2000 general election and Businessman elected Prefect of Salonicco in October 2002 and October 2006 local election |
78,870 |
10.22 |
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Total |
771,895 |
100.00 |
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Valid votes |
771,895 |
98.69 |
Invalid ballots |
10,241 |
1.31 |
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Votes cast / turnout |
782,136 |
100.00 |
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