Presented at the 61st Political Studies Association Annual Conference "Transforming Politics: New Synergies", 19 - 21 April 2011, London, UK, Panel: “GPSG Panel 3 – Contemporary Challenges: Greece beyond the Crisis”. Paper available at http://www.polres.gr/en/sites/default/files/PSA2011-GPSG.pdf

1. The 2010 Elections for the Greek Regional Authorities Andreadis I., Chadjipadelis Th. Department of Political Sciences, Aristotle University Thessaloniki Greece

6. Most important criterion used

7. Correspondence analysis: party attachment and main criterion Party Support Honesty Manifesto Other

8. Distribution of voting behaviour by main criterion

9. Distribution of voting behaviour by party attachment

10. Distribution of voting behaviour by Region (voters attached to PASOK)

12. 2009-2010 comparison (Attica) - Independent (Left) 2.2% Alavanos 0.5% ANTARSYA 2.3% Hagios - Democratic Left 3.8% Psarianos 4.0% Greens 4.0% Diakos 6.8% SYRIZA 6.2% Mitropoulos 7.5% LAOS 6.6% Georgiadis 10.2% KKE 14.4% Pafilis - Independent (PASOK) 16.0% Dimaras 28.0% ND 20.5% Kikilias 40.3% PASOK 24.0% Sgouros % 2009 Supporting Party % 2010 Candidate

13. Voting behaviour by p arty attachment (Attica)

14. VTR estimates for ND and PASOK voters (Attica) *: Rates calculated among voters who have gone to the regional polls 9.6% 7.9% 6.6% 7.1% Other & Blank 3.4% 1.0% 2.3% 0.9% Mitropoulos 0.4% 2.5% 0.2% 2.3% Georgiadis 3.9% 0.8% 2.7% 0.8% Pafilis 32.0% 11.3% 21.8% 10.2% Dimaras 1.9% 61.0% 1.3% 55.4% Kikilias 47.3% 12.0% 32.3% 10.9% Sgouros 31.6% 9.1% Abstention PASOK 2009 * ND 2009 * PASOK 2009 ND 2009