Greek legislative election, 1985
Greek legislative election, 1985
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All 300 seats to the Greek Parliament
151 seats were needed for a majority |
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First party |
Second party |
Third party |
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| 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% |
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Distribution of parliament seats after the 1985 elections.
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 |
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Seats |
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| 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 |
| 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 |
| Fighting Socialist Party of Greece (ASKE) | 1,369 | 0.0 | 0 | New |
| 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 | 30,263 | 0.3 | 0 | 0 |
| Invalid/blank votes | 57,372 | – | – | – |
| Total | 6,422,466 | 100 | 300 | 0 |
| Registered voters/turnout | 8,008,647 | 80.2 | – | – |
| Source: Nohlen & Stöver |
| Popular vote |
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| PASOK |
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45.82% |
| ND |
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40.85% |
| KKE |
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9.89% |
| KKE-ES |
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1.84% |
| Others |
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1.60% |
| Parliament seats |
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| PASOK |
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53.67% |
| ND |
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42.00% |
| KKE |
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4.00% |
| KKE-ES |
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0.33% |
References
- ↑ Nohlen, D & Stöver, P (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p830 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7