2009 Elections

Legislative election 2009 results map. Green denotes those won by PASOK.

A political rally organized by the Panhellenic Socialism Movement in Thessaloniki

In June 2009, the PA.SO.K. won the 2009 European Parliament election in Greece . Four months later, the Party enjoyed a resounding victory in the October 2009 general elections with 43.92% of the popular vote to ND's 33.48%, and 160 parliament seats to 91. Due to a number of defections and expulsions since 2009, PA.SO.K. (from 1 November 2011) helda slim majority of 152 of the parliament's 300 seats.
A poll in October 2011 on behalf of the Greek TV channel Skai TV and the newspaper Kathimerini(after the necessary austerity measures that were taken to tackle the financial crisis) however, revealed that of the people asked, 92% felt disappointed by the government while only 5% believe that a PA.SO.K. government would be best for the country in the next elections.In the same survey, when asked about whether people have a positive or negative opinion of the various Greek political Parties, the PA.SO.K. scored as the lowest, with 76% answering "negative" .It should be acknowledged that all the Parties had strongly negative assessments.The same survey showed that the support on the PA.SO.K. if elections were to be held, would be 22.5%, the lowest since 1977, while gaining only 53–77 seats.