{ "data": { "id": "greece-legislative-2027", "country": "GR", "country_name": "Greece", "date": "2027-07-25", "date_status": "tentative", "kind": "legislative", "conditional": null, "timezone": "Europe/Athens", "status": "scheduled", "last_verified_at": "2026-09-25T12:00:00Z", "stale": false, "stale_reason": null, "provenance": { "from": "researcher agent 2026-09-25: Constitution of Greece arts. 37, 41, 51, 53, 58 (hellenicparliament.gr English text); P.D. 26/2012 (Government Gazette A 57/2012 on hellenicparliament.gr; consolidated text on e-nomothesia.gr) arts. 2, 49, 50, 98, 101, 103; ekloges.ypes.gr and the ekloges-prev.singularlogic.eu June 2023 archive; ypes.gr results downloads; Areios Pagos decisions 89/2023 and 174/2023 and its June 2023 elections page; press: ieidiseis.gr 19 Jun 2023, mixanitouxronou.gr 26 Jun 2023, GreekReporter 3 Jul 2023, Euronews 4 Mar 2026, libre.gr 31 Aug 2026", "licence": "CC BY 4.0 (Election Index)" }, "url": "https://electionindex.org/election/greece-legislative-2027", "races": [ { "id": "vouli", "key": "greece-legislative-2027/vouli", "name": "Hellenic Parliament", "body": "legislature-unicameral", "seats": 300, "polls_close_utc": "2027-07-25T16:00:00Z", "authority": { "id": "gr-ypes", "name": "Ministry of the Interior", "name_local": "Υπουργείο Εσωτερικών", "role": "ministry", "homepage": "https://www.ypes.gr/", "results_index": "https://ekloges.ypes.gr/", "open_data": "https://www.ypes.gr/lipsi-archeion-apotelesmaton-ethnikon-eklogon/" }, "status": "scheduled", "expected_stage_now": null, "observed": false, "final_observed": null, "final_expected": { "from": "2027-07-26T06:00:00Z", "by": "2027-08-06T20:59:59Z", "confidence": "precedent", "basis": "P.D. 26/2012 art. 98: the first-instance court of each constituency starts collating the results the day after the vote and sends its table to the Ministry. Art. 101(2): the Supreme Electoral Committee (chaired by the President of the Areios Pagos and seated at the Ministry of the Interior) draws up the general final table and allocates the seats. The elected MPs are then proclaimed (art. 103), in 2023 by the Areios Pagos A1 Civil Section. No statutory deadline for these steps was found. Precedent, from the court's own decisions: June 2023 (vote 25 Jun), decision 174/2023 proclaimed all MPs at a public sitting on Friday 30 Jun 2023 at 17:45, on the basis of Supreme Electoral Committee decision 2/2023 (areiospagos.gr/ekloges_2023_june/174_2023_merged_signed.pdf). May 2023 (vote 21 May), decision 89/2023 did the same on Friday 26 May 2023 at 18:15, based on decision 1/2023 (areiospagos.gr/ekloges_2023_may/anakirixi_89_2023_areios_pagos_final.pdf). Both came on day 5. For 2027, day 5 is Friday 30 Jul. The opening (09:00 EEST Monday 26 Jul, when collation starts under art. 98(1)) is a floor, not an expected time: nothing official can come before it. The window closes at the end of Friday 6 Aug 2027, EEST, one week past precedent: August falls in the courts' vacation, and postal votes from abroad would be new in 2027. The Ministry's live page is not overwritten with an 'official' mark; it keeps updating (June 2023: last update 12 Jul 2023), so no replacedBy is set. Challenges go to the Supreme Special Court (Constitution arts. 58 and 100), but that is not a confirmation step, so there is no court-validation stage. The new Parliament must convene within 30 days of the election (art. 53(1)); in 2023 the MPs were sworn in on Monday 3 Jul (GreekReporter, 3 Jul 2023)." }, "stages": [ { "stage": "election-night", "from": "2027-07-25T16:00:00Z", "by": "2027-07-26T06:00:00Z", "replacedAt": null, "confidence": "precedent", "citation": "Polls close at 19:00 local (P.D. 26/2012 art. 50(1)). On 25 Jul 2027 Greece is on EEST (UTC+3), so that is 16:00 UTC; exit polls are embargoed until then (art. 49(2)). The Ministry of the Interior publishes polling-station tallies on ekloges.ypes.gr as they come in. Precedent: before the 25 Jun 2023 vote, the results contractor (Singular Logic) expected over 10% counted by 20:30 and 80-90% between 21:00 and 22:00 (ieidiseis.gr, 19 Jun 2023). Results with 99.6% counted were reported the next morning (mixanitouxronou.gr, 26 Jun 2023). No timestamped capture of the 2023 page could be read (the Wayback Machine was unreachable from this environment). The window closes at 09:00 EEST Monday. These are provisional tallies, not the official result. From the first 2027 national election, voters abroad may vote by post (Minister of the Interior on ERTnews, reported by libre.gr, 31 Aug 2026; the law was passed in March 2026 per Euronews, 4 Mar 2026). How and when those votes are added to the count has not been checked.", "source": null, "observedAt": null, "observedSource": null }, { "stage": "final-result", "from": "2027-07-26T06:00:00Z", "by": "2027-08-06T20:59:59Z", "replacedAt": null, "confidence": "precedent", "citation": "P.D. 26/2012 art. 98: the first-instance court of each constituency starts collating the results the day after the vote and sends its table to the Ministry. Art. 101(2): the Supreme Electoral Committee (chaired by the President of the Areios Pagos and seated at the Ministry of the Interior) draws up the general final table and allocates the seats. The elected MPs are then proclaimed (art. 103), in 2023 by the Areios Pagos A1 Civil Section. No statutory deadline for these steps was found. Precedent, from the court's own decisions: June 2023 (vote 25 Jun), decision 174/2023 proclaimed all MPs at a public sitting on Friday 30 Jun 2023 at 17:45, on the basis of Supreme Electoral Committee decision 2/2023 (areiospagos.gr/ekloges_2023_june/174_2023_merged_signed.pdf). May 2023 (vote 21 May), decision 89/2023 did the same on Friday 26 May 2023 at 18:15, based on decision 1/2023 (areiospagos.gr/ekloges_2023_may/anakirixi_89_2023_areios_pagos_final.pdf). Both came on day 5. For 2027, day 5 is Friday 30 Jul. The opening (09:00 EEST Monday 26 Jul, when collation starts under art. 98(1)) is a floor, not an expected time: nothing official can come before it. The window closes at the end of Friday 6 Aug 2027, EEST, one week past precedent: August falls in the courts' vacation, and postal votes from abroad would be new in 2027. The Ministry's live page is not overwritten with an 'official' mark; it keeps updating (June 2023: last update 12 Jul 2023), so no replacedBy is set. Challenges go to the Supreme Special Court (Constitution arts. 58 and 100), but that is not a confirmation step, so there is no court-validation stage. The new Parliament must convene within 30 days of the election (art. 53(1)); in 2023 the MPs were sworn in on Monday 3 Jul (GreekReporter, 3 Jul 2023).", "source": null, "observedAt": null, "observedSource": null }, { "stage": "government", "from": "2027-07-26T06:00:00Z", "by": null, "replacedAt": null, "confidence": "precedent", "citation": "Constitution art. 37(2): 'The leader of the party having the absolute majority of seats in Parliament shall be appointed Prime Minister.' Failing that, the President gives exploratory mandates to the leaders of the first, second and third parties in turn, each in force for three days (art. 37(3)); if all fail, a caretaker cabinet holds new elections. That happened after 21 May 2023, which led to the repeat election of 25 Jun 2023. In the elections that did produce a government, a cabinet followed within two days, before the formal proclamation of MPs (see precedentDays). The floor (09:00 EEST Monday 26 Jul) is an ESTIMATE. There is no statutory deadline, so no closing date is given.", "source": null, "observedAt": null, "observedSource": null } ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://ekloges.ypes.gr/", "role": "results-live", "kind": "emb_home", "kindReason": "site root: cannot answer a results question", "resolvable": false, "origin": "race", "note": "Ministry of the Interior results site (index), not a page for this election. On 25 Sep 2026 it listed past elections only, linking each to an archive host: June 2023 at ekloges-prev.singularlogic.eu/2023/june/v/home/index.html, May 2023 at .../2023/may/v/home/index.html, 2019 at .../2019/v/home/index.html. The page for 2027 is not known; do not predict it. The live figures are the polling-station tallies collected by the Ministry; they are not the official result, which is the Supreme Electoral Committee's final table and the Areios Pagos proclamation (see final-result). The June 2023 page kept updating after the proclamation: on 25 Sep 2026 it showed 'Τελευταία ενημέρωση 12/07/2023 14:51', 100% of 21,869 polling stations. The site blocks non-Greek IP ranges to plain HTTP clients (Akamai 'Access Denied' from this environment); read through a text proxy.", "check": null }, { "url": "https://www.ypes.gr/lipsi-archeion-apotelesmaton-ethnikon-eklogon/", "role": "results-final", "kind": "other", "kindReason": "no election or results marker", "resolvable": false, "origin": "race", "note": "Ministry of the Interior downloads of national-election results (xlsx per constituency). The June 2023 files are dated 2024/01 in their paths, so this is a months-later archive, not an election-week source.", "check": null }, { "url": "https://www.hellenicparliament.gr/UserFiles/f3c70a23-7696-49db-9148-f24dce6a27c8/THE%20CONSTITUTION%20OF%20GREECE.pdf", "role": "timetable", "kind": "other", "kindReason": "no election or results marker", "resolvable": false, "origin": "race", "note": "Constitution of Greece (English text, Hellenic Parliament, as revised 2019). DATE WORKING (tentative): art. 53(1) 'The Members of Parliament shall be elected for a term of four consecutive years, commencing on the day of the general elections. Upon expiration of the parliamentary term, there shall be proclaimed by presidential decree ... general parliamentary elections to be held within thirty days and the convocation of the new Parliament in regular session within another thirty days.' The last general election was Sunday 25 Jun 2023, so the term expires on 25 Jun 2027 and the election must be held by 25 Jul 2027. P.D. 26/2012 art. 50(1) requires a Sunday, and 25 Jul 2027 is a Sunday, so it is the latest lawful polling day and the date used here. Any Sunday from 27 Jun 2027 onward also fits the 30-day window, and the decree can fix an earlier day. Early dissolution is possible under art. 41 (the May 2023 and June 2023 elections both followed dissolutions). Art. 37 governs the appointment of the prime minister, and art. 58 sends challenges to the Supreme Special Court.", "check": null }, { "url": "https://www.hellenicparliament.gr/UserFiles/f3c70a23-7696-49db-9148-f24dce6a27c8/PD%2026-2012.pdf", "role": "timetable", "kind": "other", "kindReason": "election page without a results marker", "resolvable": false, "origin": "race", "note": "P.D. 26/2012 (Government Gazette A 57, 15 Mar 2012), the codified law on the election of MPs, as originally published. Art. 2(1): 300 MPs. Art. 50(1): voting on a Sunday, 07:00 to 19:00. Art. 49(2): exit polls may not be published before 19:00. Art. 98(1): the first-instance courts start collating the results the day after the vote. Art. 101(2): the Supreme Electoral Committee (Ανώτατη Εφορευτική Επιτροπή) draws up the general final table of results and allocates the seats. Art. 103: the elected MPs are proclaimed on the basis of that decision. The consolidated text at e-nomothesia.gr/kat-bouli-bouleutes/ekloges/pd-26-2012.html has the same art. 50, 98 and 101. The seat-allocation articles have been amended since 2012, including by Law 4804/2021, which applied in June 2023; they are not needed for the timings here.", "check": null }, { "url": "https://www.areiospagos.gr/ekloges_2023_june/ekloges_support_june_23.htm", "role": "timetable", "kind": "other", "kindReason": "election page without a results marker", "resolvable": false, "origin": "race", "note": "Areios Pagos (Supreme Civil and Criminal Court) page for the 25 Jun 2023 election. It says the court's A1 Civil Section is competent under P.D. 26/2012 and Law 4648/2019 for, among other things, 'την ανακήρυξη των βουλευτών του Κοινοβουλίου μετά τις εκλογές'. Its proclamation decisions for 2023 are the precedent for the final-result stage. The page for 2027 does not exist yet.", "check": null }, { "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Next_Greek_parliamentary_election", "role": "see-also", "kind": "other", "kindReason": "no election or results marker", "resolvable": false, "origin": "race", "note": "Infobox on 25 Sep 2026: 'By 25 July 2027' (agrees with the working above). Previous: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_2023_Greek_parliamentary_election", "check": null }, { "url": "https://www.ypes.gr/", "role": "authority-home", "kind": "emb_home", "kindReason": "site root: cannot answer a results question", "resolvable": false, "origin": "authority", "check": null } ], "page_activity": [], "government": { "earliestUtc": "2027-07-26T06:00:00Z", "precedentDays": [ 1, 1, 2, 2 ], "note": "Days from election to cabinet formation: Jan 2015 (25 Jan to 26 Jan, 1), Sep 2015 (20 Sep to 21 Sep, 1), 2019 (7 Jul to 9 Jul, 2), Jun 2023 (25 Jun to 27 Jun, 2). The May 2023 election produced no government: exploratory mandates failed and a repeat election followed on 25 Jun 2023. Dates are from the Wikipedia cabinet articles, not yet checked against primeminister.gr or the Government Gazette. A government market needs a clause for the no-majority case (a repeat election about a month later)." }, "url": "https://electionindex.org/election/greece-legislative-2027#vouli" } ] }, "meta": { "dataset_version": "2026-09-25.d023cc13", "built_at": "2026-09-25T21:25:00Z", "generated_at": "2026-09-25T22:29:21.544Z", "licence": "CC BY 4.0: credit \"Election Index (electionindex.org)\" and link to https://electionindex.org", "docs": "https://electionindex.org/docs" } }