April 2009 Constantinopolitan general election (Queen of Cities)

Legislative elections in Greece on Sunday April 12, 2009 to elect all 200 members of the Parliament after the previous 18th legislature had completed its term. The election was held in the midst of the Great Recession and thus was marked by the rise of anti-austerity leftist parties that opposed the policies of the previous Asatryan governments. The good performance of the anti-neoliberal left led to the formation of a coalition between the two major parties under the independent economist Bagrat Akopyan. However, the new prime minister's radical austerity plan led to the downfall of his government and the dissolution of the Parliament, resulting in early elections in October.

Electoral system
The 200 deputies of Parliament were chosen from a single nationwide electoral district via closed-list proportional representation with a 5% threshold.