By Antonis Anzoletou

The “pollsters” of the parties have for months been making “leaf and feather” the districts in which they should focus their attention.

The “derbies” are expected to be quite based on the data they have in their hands, but also with the data available from the 2019 match.

Crete has been in the hands of SYRIZA since June 2012. In two cases four years ago the victory was decided by a few votes.

In Rethymno, the current official opposition gathered a percentage of 36.99% and came first in the prefecture against New Democracy (36.55%) with a 205 vote difference.

Correspondingly, in Lassithi, SYRIZA’s first came by receiving 103 crosses more.

In island Greece, the race in Corfu was inconclusive with the majority faction winning with 35.14% (19,525 votes) and SYRIZA following with 34.41% (19,119 votes).

In North, Central Corfu and Paxos the “blue” color prevailed and in the south of Corfu “pink”.

Going further north, the movements of the parties show that there will be a very tough battle for A’ Thessaloniki. It is no coincidence that in Koumoundourou they have greatly strengthened this particular ballot.

It’s a district he won in September 2015 by a 10% margin and four years ago lost by four points. The registered ones are estimated to be over half a million, so the size of this region is not negligible at all. And in Epirus, election night will be of great interest.

In the region of Ioannina, N.D. came first with 37.42% (although it lost the municipality of Ioannito) electing four deputies.

SYRIZA received 36.30%. In Arta, the hometown of Alexis Tsipras, SYRIZA prevailed with 39.94%, followed by ND. with 38.99%.

The result of 2019 in Evia, where the blue faction prevailed with 1.7% of Koumoundouros taking the four seats, promises a difficult evening.

Out of the eight municipalities, the current majority prevailed in five and it is characteristic that in the municipality of Chalkideon it won with only 131 votes.

It is certain that the official opposition is counting on the damage the government has suffered from the fires of 2021. “Thriller” was recorded four years ago and in Ilia where there are many special features.

PASOK is traditionally strong, New Democracy prevailed by 1.2% but still lost in the municipality of Pyrgos (SYRIZA 38.14% – ND 34.66%).

Western Athens is considered the “castle” of SYRIZA, with New Democracy, however, having set a bow to cut the thread first and the participation of Kyriakos Mitsotakis in the party’s lists is not accidental.

In any case, he was traditionally elected in the unified Athens B.

In Thrace, SYRIZA won Xanthi by a margin of 2.82% and there New Democracy will attempt to paint the prefecture “blue”, as it was the only prefecture in Northern Greece that it failed to win in 2019.

In Macedonia, the region where SYRIZA managed to get closer to the blue faction was Florina, with a difference of 3.52%. The two parties shared the two available seats.

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Election 2019

ND SYRIZA DIFFERENT

Lasithi 34.32% 34.57% 0.25%

Rethymnon 36.55% 36.99% 0.44%

Corfu 35.14% 34.41% 0.73%

Arta 38.99% 39.94% 0.94%

Ioannina 37.42% 36.30% 1.11%

Ilia 36.03% 34.82% 1.22%

Evia 36.61% 34.91% 1.70%

Western Attica 34.28% 36.24% 1.96%