GREEK communists labelled the country’s election “rigged” as right-wing leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis secured a crushing victory in Sunday’s general election.

Mr Mitsotakis’s New Democracy party took around 40.55 per cent of the vote. This was more than twice the main opposition Syriza’s 17.84 per cent. 

It was the largest margin of victory in half a century.

Held under a new electoral law that boosts the first party, Sunday’s vote gives ND a comfortable majority of 158 seats in the 300-member parliament, with Syriza getting 48.

Centre-left Pasok elected 32 lawmakers and the Communist Party (KKE) 20.

The Communist Party of Greece said the right-wing victory came a result of “a rigged electoral system, which rewards the first party with a bonus of up to 50 seats.”

But the party’s general secretary, Dimitris Koutsoumbas, saluted the “thousands of voters who strengthened the KKE with their votes.

“The MPs elected by the KKE will be where they promised to be the next day; at the forefront of the struggles against the problems faced by the workers and the people, at the side of the workers, the popular forces and the youth.”

Voter turnout was just under 53 per cent, down on the 61 per cent in the May vote.