2019 Crete regional elections

The 2019 Cretan regional election took place on 26 May 2019, simultaneously with the rest of Greece. The election was for all 51 elected seats of the Regional Council of Crete as well as the Regional Governor.

2019 Crete regional elections

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All 51 seats to the Regional Council of Crete
Turnout	65.14%
First party Second party Third party   Candidate Stavros Arnaoutakis Alexandros Markogiannakis Emmanouil Syntychakis Party Crete our Life Crete Forward Popular Convolution of Crete Alliance PASOK–SYRIZA New Democracy KKE Seats won 31 14 3 Seat change 2 Popular vote 202.802 88,448 21,164 Percentage 60.82% 26.52% 6,35% Swing 19.69pp (first round) 0.31pp (first round) 0.64pp
Regional Governor before election Stavros Arnaoutakis PASOK Elected Regional Governor Stavros Arnaoutakis PASOK

This was the third Cretan regional election and the incumbent Governor (Stavros Arnaoutakis, PASOK) ran for a third consecutive term.

The ballot resulted in the election of Stavros Arnaoutakis, the incumbent Governor, as Regional Governor with 61% of the votes. The center-right candidate, Alexandros Markogiannakis, came in second with 27 percent. The KKE candidate, Emmanouil Syntychakis, received 6 percent of the vote. The socialist list supported by LAE, the far-right list supported by Golden Dawn and the anti-capitalist list supported by Antarsya also gained representation in the council.^[1]

Electoral system

According to the new electoral system introduced by the SYRIZA government, to become a Mayor or Regional Governor, one of the candidates must receive 50% + 1 of the votes. In areas where no candidate achieved the required percentage in the first round, a second round of elections was held between the two leading candidates one week later, on June 2. For the seat distribution in the council, the system of simple proportional representation was applied.^[2]

Results

Party		Votes	%	Seats
	Crete our Life	202,802	60.82	31
	Crete Forward	88,448	26.52	14
	Popular Convolution of Crete	21,164	6.35	3
	Xasteria! Turnaround for Crete	7,386	2.21	1
	Hellenic Dawn for Crete	6,922	2.08	1
	Insubordinate Crete Anticapitalist Leftist Interference	6,751	2.02	1
Total		333,473	100.00	51
Valid votes		333,473	96.72
Invalid/blank votes		11,308	3.28
Total votes		344,781	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		546,099	63.14
Source: https://ekloges-prev.singularlogic.eu/2019/p/home/en/regions/13/