GREEK LOCAL ELECTIONS, 2006

The '2006 Greek local elections' will elect representatives to Greece's 3 super-prefectures, 54 prefectures, provinces, and approximately 1,033 communities and municipalities.
The elections took place on Sunday, 15 October, 2006 from 7am to 7pm.
According to the New Code for Municipalities and Communities, a platform gains the absolute majority of the seats if it has more than 42% of the votes. If no platform achieves that, then there is a second round, one week later. The ballot in the second round includes the two platforms which garnered the most votes in the 1st week.
Traditionally, candidates at local elections do not run under the official name of the party they belong, but form electoral platforms with different names for the purpose.

Contents

Elections

Municipal mayoralties

Notes

Elections

Municipal mayoralties

Municipality of Athens

Candidate	Supporting parties[1]		Platform	1st Round	%	Seats
Nikitas Kaklamanis		New Democracy/ Popular Orthodox Rally		126,877	46.05	27
Costas Skandalidis		Panhellenic Socialist Movement		79,463	28.84	11
Alexis Tsipras		Coalition of the Radical Left / Communist Organization of Greece		28,964	10.51	4
Spyros Halvatzis		Communist Party of Greece/ Democratic Social Movement/ Communist Renewal/ Intervention of Left Citizens		24,169	8.77	3
Dimosthenis Vergis		Greek Ecologists		3,935	1.43	0
Tasos Krommydas		Ecologist Greens		3,822	1.39	0
Dimitrios Zaphiropoulos		Patriotic Alliance		3,705	1.34	0
Aggelos Hagios		Radical Left Front/ Communist Party of Greece (Marxist-Leninist)		3,107	1.13	0
Emmanouil Kalligiannis		Independent		1,458	0.53	0
'No. of valid votes'				275,500	100.00	45
Invalid votes				21,504
'Total'				297,004 (57.77%)

Municipality of Piraeus

Candidate	Supporting parties1		Platform	1st Round	%	Seats
Panagiotis Fasoulas		Panhellenic Socialist Movement		44,936	45.17	25
Christos Agrapidis		New Democracy	‎	32,562	32.02	10
Thodoris Dritsas		Coalition of the Radical Left/ Ecologist Greens		6,540	6.43	2
Elpida Pantelaki		Communist Party of Greece		6,231	6.13	2
Panagiotis Melas		Popular Orthodox Rally		5,698	5.60	1
Nikolaos Legakis				3,478	3.42	1
Antonis Tsiknas		Radical Left Front/ Communist Party of Greece (Marxist-Leninist)		1,246	1.23	0
'No. of valid votes'				101,691	100.00	41
Invalid votes				6.936
'Total'				108.627 (64.20%)

Municipality of Thessaloniki

Candidate	Supporting parties1		Platform	1st Round	%	Seats	2nd Round	%	Seats
Vassilis Papageorgopoulos		New Democracy	Thessaloniki Renewal	68,319	41.43	9	72,696	52.62	16 (25)
Chrysa Arapoglou		Panhellenic Socialist Movement	‎	35,623	21.60	5	65,455	47.38	4 (9)
Yannis Boutaris		Ecologist Greens	Initiative for Thessaloniki	26,334	15.97	3
Georgios Karatzaferis		Popular Orthodox Rally		12,371	7.50	2
Agapios Sahinis		Communist Party of Greece		12,249	7.43	1
Tassos Kourakis		Coalition of the Radical Left		8,349	5.06	1
Thannasis Agapitos		Radical Left Front/ Communist Party of Greece (Marxist-Leninist)		1,657	1.00	0
'No. of valid votes'				164,902	100.00	21	138,151	100.00	20 (41)
Invalid votes				12,624			14,213
'Total'				177,526 (72.30%)			152,364 (62.03%)

===Super-Prefectural elections

Athens-Piraeus

Candidate	Supporting parties1		Platform	1st Round	%	Seats
Fofi Gennimata		Panhellenic Socialist Movement		647,027	43.39	46
Argyris Dinopoulos		New Democracy		504,104	33.81	18
George Mavrikos		Communist Party of Greece/ Democratic Social Movement/ Left Renewal/ Intervention of Left Citizens		157,633	10.57	6
Yannis Panousis		Coalition of the Left, of Movements and Ecology		85,162	5.71	2
Evangelos Papadopoulos		Popular Orthodox Rally		57,299	3.84	2
Thanasses Tsirigotis		M-L KKE		19,974	1.34	0
Kostas Spanopoulos		Socialist Workers' Party		19,857	1.33	0
'No. of valid votes'				1,491,092	100.00	74
Invalid votes				147,815
'Total'				1,638,907 (69.23%)

Drama-Kavala-Xanthi

Candidate	Supporting parties1		Platform	1st Round	%	Seats
Constantine Tatsis		New Democracy		141,142	56.31	45
Gülbeyaz Karahasan		Panhellenic Socialist Movement		83,195	33.19	27
Dimitris Fotiadis		Communist Party of Greece/ Democratic Social Movement/ Communist Renewal/ Intervention of Left Citizens		11,740	4.68	3
Dimitris Kollatos		Popular Orthodox Rally		8,160	3.26	0
Dimitris Proedrou		Coalition of the Left, of Movements and Ecology		6,426	2.56	0
'No. of valid votes'				250,663	100.00	75
Invalid votes				15,521
'Total'				266,184 (70.74%)

Evros-Rhodope

Candidate	Supporting parties1		Platform	1st Round	%	Seats
Georgios Minopoulos		Panhellenic Socialist Movement		90,004	49.97	30
Stefanos Spasis		New Democracy		74,297	41.25	20
Georgios Botrotsos		Communist Party of Greece		7,260	4.03	0
Stavros Tsagkos		Coalition of the Left, of Movements and Ecology		4,450	2.47	0
Kiriakos Kozaris		Popular Orthodox Rally		4,097	2.27	0
'No. of valid votes'				180,108	100.00	50
Invalid votes				10,417
'Total'				190,525 (67.30)%)

===Prefectural elections

Athens Prefecture

Candidate	Supporting parties1		Platform	Seats
Yiannis Sgouros		Panhellenic Socialist Movement
Fotini Pipili		New Democracy
Spyros Likoudis		Coalition of the Left, of Movements and Ecology
Adonis Georgiadis		Popular Orthodox Rally
Hristos Katsikas		M-L KKE
Niki Argiri		Socialist Workers' Party

''Note: There was no separate election for the position of prefect (nomarch); the nomarchs was appointed according to the results of the election in the super-prefecture.)''

Piraeus Prefecture

Candidate	Supporting parties1		Platform	Seats
Yiannis Michas		Panhellenic Socialist Movement
Spiros Spyridon		New Democracy
Evi Karakosta		Coalition of the Left, of Movements and Ecology
Panagiotis Theodorakidis		Popular Orthodox Rally
Antonis Fotiadis		M-L KKE
Yannis Sifakakis		Socialist Workers' Party

''Note: There was no separate election for the position of prefect (nomarch); the nomarchs was appointed according to the results of the election in the super-prefecture.)''

Thessaloniki Prefecture

Candidate	Supporting parties1		Platform	1st Round	%	Seats
Panagiotis Psomiadis		New Democracy	Power for the Perfecture	269,349	48,20	23
Voula Patoulidou		Panhellenic Socialist Movement	For Thessaloniki - Voula Patoulidou / Together for the Perfecture	171,345	30.66	9
Yiannis Ziogas		Communist Party of Greece		32,706	5.85	2
Michalis Tremopoulos		Ecologist Greens/ Socialist Workers' Party	Ecology - Solidarity	25,661	4.59	2
Stratis Plomaritis		Coalition of the Left, of Movements and Ecology		19,385	3.47	1
Dimitrios Tsipidis		Popular Orthodox Rally		15,017	2.69	0
Marianna Brekasi		Communist Organization of Greece	Left Perfectural Movement of Thessaloniki	12,859	2.30	0
Harilaos Papageorgiou		Independent		12,481	2.23	0
'No. of valid votes'				558,805	100.00	37
Invalid votes				45,006
'Total'				603,811 (79.79%)

Notes

1. When more than one parties support the same candidate, this does not necessarily mean there is an official alliance between the supporting parties or even that candidates themselves approve of all the parties that endorse them.