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UNCOVERED: Greek conservatives take commanding lead in new vote exit poll | History Defined

The vote is overshadowed by a June 14 boat wreck in which hundreds of refugees and migrants either died or went missing off the coast of western Greece [Alexandros Avramidis/Reuters]

Greece’s conservative New Democracy party has won the country’s parliamentary elections, with voters giving reformist Kyriakos Mitsotakis another four-year term as prime minister.

Official results from nearly 90 percent of voting centres nationwide on Sunday showed Mitsotakis’s party with just over 40 percent of the vote, with his main rival, the left-wing Syriza party, suffering a crushing defeat with just under 18 percent, even worse than its 20 percent in the last elections in May.

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