1985 Greek legislative election

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1985 Greek legislative election
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All 300 seats in the Greek Parliament
151 seats were needed for a majority
  First party Second party Third party
  Andreas Papandreou.jpg Constantine Mitsotakis.jpg Charilaos Florakis.JPG
Leader Andreas Papandreou Constantine Mitsotakis Charilaos Florakis
Party PASOK ND KKE
Leader since 3 September 1974 1984 1974
Last election 172 seats, 48.07% 115 seats, 35.87% 13 seats, 10.93%
Seats won 161 126 12
Seat change Decrease 11 Increase 11 Decrease 1
Popular vote 2,916,735 2,599,681 629,525
Percentage 45.8% 40.8% 9.9%
Swing Decrease 2.3% Increase 4.9% Decrease 1.8%
Prime Minister before election

Andreas Papandreou
PASOK

Prime Minister after election

Andreas Papandreou
PASOK

Distribution of parliament seats after the 1985 elections.
  Panhellenic Socialist Movement: 161 seats
  New Democracy: 126 seats
  Communist Party of Greece: 12 seats
  Communist Party of Greece (Interior): 1 seats

Parliamentary elections were held in Greece on 3 June 1985.[1] The ruling Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK) of Andreas Papandreou, was re-elected, defeating the conservative New Democracy party of Constantine Mitsotakis (Mitsotakis succeeded Evangelos Averoff as ND leader in 1984).

Results[]

Party Votes % Seats +/–
Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK) 2,916,735 45.8 161 –11
New Democracy (ND) 2,599,681 40.8 126 +11
Communist Party of Greece (KKE) 629,525 9.9 12 –1
Communist Party of Greece (Interior) (KKE Interior) 117,135 1.8 1 +1
National Political Union (EPEN) 37,965 0.6 0 New
Liberal Party 10,551 0.2 0 0
Fighting Socialist Party of Greece (ASKE) 10,369 0.2 0 New
Revolutionary Communist Movement of Greece (EKKE) 6,951 0.1 0 0
Communist Left 5,383 0.1 0 New
Liberals 5,212 0.1 0 New
EDE-Trotskyists 3,685 0.1 0 0
Hellenic Christian Social Union 251 0.0 0 New
Patriotic Right 172 0.0 0 New
Olympic Democracy 162 0.0 0 0
Enlighten Movement 49 0.0 0 New
Greens-Ecological Party of Greece-Hellenic Alternative Green Movement 5 0.0 0 New
Independents 10,365 0.2 0 0
Individual candidates 10,898 0.2 0 0
Invalid/blank votes 57,372 – – –
Total 6,422,466 100 300 0
Registered voters/turnout 8,008,647 80.2 – –
Sources: Ministry of the Interior, Nohlen & Stöver[2]
Popular vote
PASOK
 
 45.82%
ND
 
 40.85%
KKE
 
 9.89%
KKE-ES
 
 1.84%
Others
 
 1.60%
Parliament seats
PASOK
 
 53.67%
ND
 
 42.00%
KKE
 
 4.00%
KKE-ES
 
 0.33%

References[]

  1. ^ 1986 IPU
  2. ^ Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, pp847–862 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
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