Official projections in Greek election show landslide win for New Democracy party

Kyriakos Mitsotakis votes at a polling station in Athens, Greece (Yorgos Karahalis/AP)

Greece’s conservative New Democracy party won a landslide victory in the country’s second election in five weeks, official projections based on early returns showed, gaining enough parliamentary seats to form a government for a second four-year term.

Kyriakos Mitsotakis’ party is projected to win 40.5% of the vote, with his main rival, the left-wing Syriza party, suffering a crushing defeat with just under 18% projected support, even worse than its 20% in the last elections in May.