Greek legislative election, 1961

Greek legislative election, 1961
Kingdom of Greece
29 October 1961

All 300 seats to the Greek Parliament
151 seats were needed for a majority
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Konstantinos Karamanlis Georgios Papandreou Ioannis Passalidis
Party ERE ΕΚ PAME
Leader since 1955 1961 1951
Last election 171 seats, 41.16% - -
Seats won 176 100 24
Seat change +5 +100 -
Percentage 50.81% 33.66% 14.63%
Swing +9.65% - -

PM before election

Konstantinos Karamanlis
ERE

Subsequent PM

Konstantinos Karamanlis
ERE

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Parliamentary elections were held in Greece on 29 October 1961.[1] The result was a third consecutive victory for Constantine Karamanlis and his National Radical Union party, which won 176 of the 300 seats in Parliament.

Nevertheless, the leader of the newly formed Center Union (an alliance of all liberal and centrist parties), Georgios Papandreou and the leaders of the left-wing Pandemocratic Agrarian Front questioned the legality of the results, claiming that Karamanlis, the army and the palace rigged the vote. Papandreou announced an "uncompromising struggle" (ανένδοτος αγών) against Karamanlis' government, demanding new elections. Karamanlis denied all the allegations of Papandreou, although the opposition parties insisted in them. Eventually, the elections of 1961 became known in the Greek political history as the "elections of violence and fraud" (εκλογές της βίας και νοθείας).

Results

Party Votes % Seats +/–
National Radical Union2,347,82450.8176+5
Centre Union-Progressive Party1,555,44233.7100New
All-Democratic Agricultural Front675,86714.624New
List of Independents41,5500.900
Invalid/blank votes20,803
Total4,641,4861003000
Registered voters/turnout5,688,29881.6
Source: Nohlen & Stöver
Popular vote
ERE
 
50.81%
EK-KP
 
33.66%
PAME
 
14.63%
Others
 
0.90%
Parliament seats
ERE
 
58.67%
EK-KP
 
33.33%
PAME
 
8.00%

References

  1. Nohlen, D & Stöver, P (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p830 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
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