Greek legislative election, 1915 (May)

The elections took place 31 May 1915. Eleftherios Venizelos

Eleftherios Venizelos

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and his Liberal Party

Liberal Party (Greece)

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achieved a landslide victory. At stake were 316 seats and the Liberals took 187 of them. Nevertheless and despite the victory of Liberals, Venizelos' dispute with King Constantine I

Constantine I of Greece

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remained. The resulting parliament was superseded by new elections in following December from which Venizelos and his party abstained, but was resurrected by Venizelos in June 1917, when King Constantine was forced to abdicate and leave the country (see National Schism). As a result, it was popularly nicknamed the "Parliament of the Lazaruses

Lazarus of Bethany

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" (Βουλή των Λαζάρων), and continued until the general election

Greek legislative election, 1920

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of October 1920.

These are the official results (686.990 votes):

rowspan=2 colspan=3 valign=top|Summary of the 31 May 1915 Greek Parliament

Hellenic Parliament

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election results

Greek legislative election, 1910

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Liberal Party (Greece)

|Eleftherios Venizelos

Eleftherios Venizelos

Dimitrios Gounaris

Dimitrios Gounaris was the Prime Minister of Greece from March 10, 1915 to August 23, 1915 and April 8, 1921 to May 16, 1922...

Socialist Workers' Federation

The Socialist Workers' Federation , led by Avraam Benaroya, was an attempt at union of different nationalities' workers in Ottoman Thessaloniki within a single labor movement.-The Federation in the Ottoman Empire:...

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|colspan="3"|No. of valid votes
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|colspan=8|Source: National Research Foundation "Eleftherios K. Venizelos" http://www.venizelos-foundation.gr/endocs/bio06-10.jsp, Texts of Constitutional History (Greek Institute of Constitutional History)
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