There will be 600 voters on average per polling station. Of the new voters, men outnumber women by 666, although women voters make up 51.2 percent of the total electorate. Reinforced proportional representation gives the first party bonus seats, ensuring that it gets a solid parliamentary majority even if it wins by a slim margin. Parties must receive at least three percent of the vote to get into parliament. Parties slates in each district include candidates equal to the number of seats to be filled in the constituency.
Voters choose candidates by placing a cross next to their names in black or blue ink.
Ballots marked with more crosses than allowed are not invalid but are considered as a vote for the party. The Coalition of the Left and Progress and the Democratic and Social Movement. Conservative New Democracy has been out of power since 1993 when the then-government collapsed after losing its parliamentary majority. Its president Costas Karamanlis is 43 years old and the nephew of Constantine Karamanlis, who served as prime minister for 13 years as well as president for another 10 years. New Democracy has 103 seats in the old Parliament.