Greek legislative election, 1985

Greek legislative election, 1985
Greece
2 June 1985

All 300 seats to the Greek Parliament
151 seats were needed for a majority
  First party Second party Third party
 
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 −11 +11 −1
Popular vote 2,916,735 2,599,681 629,525
Percentage 45.8% 40.8% 9.9%
Swing −2.3% +4.9% −1.8%

PM before election

Andreas Papandreou
PASOK

Subsequent PM

Andreas Papandreou
PASOK

Distribution of parliament seats after the 1985 elections.
  New Democracy: 126 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)2,916,73545.8161–11
New Democracy (ND)2,599,68140.8126+11
Communist Party of Greece (KKE)629,5259.912–1
Communist Party of Greece (Interior) (KKE Interior)117,1351.81+1
National Political Union (EPEN)37,9650.60New
Liberal Party10,5510.200
Revolutionary Communist Movement of Greece (EKKE)6,9510.100
Communist Left5,3830.10New
Liberals5,2120.10New
EDE-Trotskyists3,6850.100
Fighting Socialist Party of Greece (ASKE)1,3690.00New
Hellenic Christian Social Union2510.00New
Patriotic Right1720.00New
Olympic Democracy1620.000
Enlighten Movement490.00New
Greens-Ecological Party of Greece-Hellenic Alternative Green Movement50.00New
Independents30,2630.300
Invalid/blank votes57,372
Total6,422,4661003000
Registered voters/turnout8,008,64780.2
Source: Nohlen & Stöver
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. Nohlen, D & Stöver, P (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p830 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
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