Greek election - January 25th 2015

[Sir John Johns]

More to come.

[Sir John Johns]

Great maps.

Sparta is really pro-ND and pro-Golden Dawn. Also pro-ANEL ?

Not really, ANEL only got 2.73% in Laconia and 2.43% in Sparta itself, less than its national result. LAOS also underperformed there.



To Potami seems to have its best results with the urban voters. In Attica, its best result is in the wealthy suburb of Filothei-Psychiko which is also New Democracy's second best municipality in whole Greece. Good results also in Rhodope (they seems to really hate ND there) and in Crete, especially in westernmost part (birthplace of its leader).

On a relate note, a general (and not really surprising) pattern I noticed while making the ND map: in a good chunk of regional units, ND tends to have its worst result in the most populated municipality.



Rhodope and Xanthis really aren't huge fans of KKE: these are the party's two worst regional units and two of the only four ones where its share of vote decreased (down from already very low results).

[Sir John Johns]

ANEL map.


The municipality over 19% is Nisyros in Dodecanese.

PASOK map.


Three municipalities over 19%, all in Dodecanese: Chalki, Agathonisi, and Kasos.

[Sir John Johns]

I'm still interested in what's going on in Achaea. Is it more just non-Nazi anti-austerity than anything else?

Achaia used to be a PASOK stronghold. As mentioned earlier in the thread, the Papandreou family originated from the Achaian town of Kalentzi. Patras (Greece's third most populated municipality) has been almost exclusively ruled either by the PASOK or by KKE mayors; if I trusted the Greek Wikipedia, it only had a right-wing (ND) mayor between 1999 and 2002.

From at least 1996 to 2009, PASOK had always topped the polls in Achaia. In 2009, it won 52.65% against only 28.99% for ND. PASOK's support collapsed to 14.11% and then 13.49% in the two 2012 elections with many of its voters going to SYRIZA. This year, PASOK's voters seems to have continued to flow toward SYRIZA but at a slower pace; the combined result of PASOK (3.89%) and KIDISO (5.87%, its best national result) is 9.76%.

KIDISO map:



Best national result (20.41%) in Erymanthos, where Kalentzi is located (as noted in a previous post, KIDISO got 53.65% there!). KIDISO had its best results in some of the old PASOK strongholds like Achaia, Crete, and Elis. On the other side, like PASOK, it failed badly in Athens, Piraeus and Thessaloniki.

Union of Centrists map: