Greece’s Syriza Party is said to have won Sunday’s snap elections, leading by 35 per cent to the New Democracy’s 28 per cent, according to the Interior Ministry.

New Democracy Leader, Cangelis Meimarakis, said that the electoral result appeared to be concluding with Syriza and Mr. Tsipras in the lead.

Syriza supporters at the party’s main electoral headquarters in Athens earlier cheered and clapped as exit polls were announced.

The former Prime Minister later said that there was hard work and struggle ahead for the Greek people.

Mr. Tsipras seemed to lose popularity when signing the bailout deal, shortly after holding a referendum in which more than 60 per cent of voters rejected the austerity measures creditors wanted to impose.

Before the election, Tsipras said that he had put his country above his party, adding that had he not agreed to the three-year bailout, Greece would probably have had to leave the Eurozone.