1.
LV WOMEN OUTSIDE POLLING STATION.
0.07

2.
MV DITTO.
0.14

3.
CU WOMEN AND GUARD AT ENTRANCE TO POLLING STATION.
0.17

4.
CU OFFICIALS IN STATION.
0.21

5.
CU WOMAN PLACE VOTE IN BALLOT BOX.
0.27

6.
LV MEN OUTSIDE POLLING STATION.
0.42

7.
MV MARKEZINIS ARRIVES.
0.45

8.
MV OFFICIALS.
0.48

9.
MV MARKEZINIS VOTING.
0.50

10.
MV M. VENIZELOS ARRIVES.
0.52

11.
CU GREEK SIGN.
0.54

12.
CU VENIZELOS VOTING.
1.00

13.
MV M. PAPANDREOUS ARRIVES.
1.15



Initials PGR/S/BHH/LW


EDITORS: SEE ALSO PROD 8742/63 NOV 2 KARAMANLIS IS ELECTION RALLY.

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Background: GREECE WENT TO THE POLLS TODAY (SUNDAY) TO ELECT A NEW 300-MEMBER PARLIAMENT. VOTING WAS ORDERLY AND NO INCIDENTS WERE REPORTED THROUGHOUT THE DAY. THE GREEK GOVERNMENT HAS WARNED THAT VOTING IS COMPULSORY, SO THE PERCENTAGE OF ABSTENTION AMONG THE 5 1/2-MILLION ELIGIBLE VOTERS IS EXPECTED TO BE A RECORD LOW.

THE THREE CHIEF POLITICAL PARTIES CONTESTING THE ELECTION ARE THE RIGHT-WING NATIONAL RADICAL UNION (NRU), LED BY FORMER PRIME MINISTER MR. CONSTANTINE KARAMANLIS; THE MIDDLE OF THE ROAD OF THE CENTRE (UC), LED BY 75-YEAR-OLD MR. GEORGE PAPANDREOU, FILMED CASTING HIS VOTE; AND THE PROGRESSIVE PARTY LED BY GREECE'S YOUNGEST POLITICAL LEADER, MR. SPYROS MARKENZINIS, ALSO FILMED AT THE POLLS.

OTHER PARTIES ARE THE PRO-COMMUNIST UNITED DEMOCRATIC LEFT, AND THE LIBERAL PARTY, WHOSE JOINT LEADER, MR. SOPHOCIES VENIZELOS, IS SEEN ARRIVING AT A POLLING STATION.

OUTCOME OF THE ELECTION IS LIKELY TO BE KNOWN BY EARLY TOMORROW, BUT FINAL RESULTS WILL NOT BE KNOWN NEXT TUESDAY WHEN ABSENTEE VOTES ARE COUNTED.