Athens A

Athens A
Electoral constituency for the Hellenic Parliament
Athens A within Attica
Attica within Greece
Regional unit	Central Athens
Administrative region	Attica
Electorate	477.440 (January 2014)
Current Electoral constituency
Created	1958
Number of members	14 Members of Parliament
Created from	Athens

Athens A (Greek: Α΄ Αθηνών) is a parliamentary constituency^[1] in Attica represented in the Hellenic Parliament. In its present form it dates to 1958, when the Athens B constituency was split off, leaving Athens A with the Municipality of Athens. It elects fourteen Members of Parliament (MPs) by reinforced proportional representation.

Its most high-profile MP is the Prime Minister of Greece since 2015, Alexis Tsipras of Syriza.

Election results

Legislative election

Athens A constituency results Election 1st party 2nd party 3rd party 4th party 5th party source 1990 New Democracy 51.33% PASOK 31.54% SYN 12.95% OIKOL 1.60% DIANA 1.06% 1993 New Democracy 42.75% PASOK 38.06% POLAN 6.44% SYN 6.41% KKE 4.96% 1996 New Democracy 38.83% PASOK 35.34% SYN 9.13% KKE 6.08% DIKKI 4.44% [2] 2000 New Democracy 42.36% PASOK 39.76% KKE 6.54% SYN 5.65% DIKKI 2.70% [3] 2004 New Democracy 44.56% PASOK 36.43% KKE 6.86% SYRIZA 5.74% LAOS 2.86% [4] 2007 New Democracy 40.16% PASOK 29.96% KKE 10.52% SYRIZA 9.27% LAOS 5.39% [5] 2009 PASOK 35.52% New Democracy 31.75% KKE 9.55% SYRIZA 7.98% LAOS 7.59% [6] May 2012 SYRIZA 19.12% New Democracy 15.79% PASOK 9.71% ANEL 8.98% XA 8.77% [7] June 2012 New Democracy 30.92% SYRIZA 26.96% PASOK 8.72% XA 7.81% DEMAR 7.37% [8] January 2015 SYRIZA 33.61% New Democracy 30.07% The River 7.23% XA 7.05% KKE 6.04% [9] September 2015 SYRIZA 31.55% New Democracy 31.12% XA 6.91% KKE 5.83% The River 5.73% [10]

Members of Parliament

Current members

The following fourteen MPs have been elected in the Greek legislative election, September 2015:

Name[11]	Parliamentary Group
Alexandros Flampouraris	SYRIZA
Nikos Voutsis	SYRIZA
Nikos Filis	SYRIZA
Christophoros Vernardakis [12]	SYRIZA
Olga Kefalogianni	ND
Vassilis Kikilias	ND
Dora Bakoyannis	ND
Nikitas Kaklamanis	ND
Nikolaos Michaloliakos	XA
Konstantinos Skandalidis	PASOK
Liana Kanelli	Communist Party of Greece
Spyros Lykoudis	The River
Elena Kountoura	Independent Greeks
Marios Georgiadis	Enosi Kentroon

Members of Parliament (January 2015- August 2015)

In the Greek legislative election, January 2015, Athens A elected 14 members of parliament:

Alexis Tsipras SYRIZA Nikos Filis SYRIZA Zoe Konstantopoulou SYRIZA Gabriel Sakellaridis SYRIZA Nikos Voutsis SYRIZA Dora Bakoyannis ND Nikitas Kaklamanis ND

Olga Kefalogianni ND Vassilis Kikilias ND Spyros Lykoudis The River Nikolaos Michaloliakos XA Liana Kanelli Communist Party of Greece Elena Kountoura Independent Greeks Konstantinos Skandalidis PASOK

Members of Parliament (June 2012-2015)

In 2012 Election Athens A elected 17 members of parliament:

Olga Kefalogianni ND Dimitris Avramopoulos ND Nikitas Kaklamanis ND Foteini Pipili ND Vassilis Kikilias ND Panagiotis Mitarakis ND Prokopis Pavlopoulos ND Andreas Psycharis ND Alexis Tsipras SYRIZA

Zoi Konstantopoulou SYRIZA Nikolaos Voutsis SYRIZA Maria Bolari SYRIZA Kostas Skandalidis PASOK Elena Kountoura ANEL Nikolaos Michaloliakos XA Ioannis Panousis DIMAR Liana Kanelli KKE

Notes and references

1. "MPs Per Constituency (electoral map)". Hellenic Parliament. Retrieved 12 November 2012.
2. "Results 1996". Ministry of Interior. Retrieved 26 January 2015.
3. "Results 2000". Ministry of Interior. Retrieved 26 January 2015.
4. "Results 2004". Ministry of Interior. Retrieved 26 January 2015.
5. "Results 2007". Ministry of Interior. Retrieved 26 January 2015.
6. "Results 2009". Ministry of Interior. Retrieved 26 January 2015.
7. "Results 2012 May". Ministry of Interior. Retrieved 26 January 2015.
8. "Results 2012 June". Ministry of Interior. Retrieved 26 January 2015.
9. "Results 2015". Ministry of Interior. Retrieved 26 January 2015.
10. "Election 2015 September". Ministry of Interior. Retrieved 26 September 2015.
11. Sorting by Name and then by Parliamentary Group will provide an alphabetical ordering of MPs inside each Parliamentary Group/Party.
12. Since 19 November 2015 when Gabriel Sakellaridis resigned; Sakellaridis had been elected second after Flampouraris.

External links

• Results and Elected MPs for the September 2015 Election in Athens A constituency (from the website of the Hellenic Ministry of Interior)
• List of Athens A MPs on the website of the Hellenic Parliament