1985 Greek parliamentary election

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1985 Greek parliamentary election
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All 300 seats in the Hellenic Parliament
151 seats needed for a majority
 First partySecond party
  Andreas Papandreou.jpg Mitsotakis 1992.jpg
Leader Andreas Papandreou Constantine Mitsotakis
Party PASOK ND
Last election48.07%, 172 seats35.88%, 115 seats
Seats won161126
Seat changeDecrease2.svg 11Increase2.svg 11
Popular vote2,916,7352,599,681
Percentage45.82%40.85%
SwingDecrease2.svg2.25 pp Increase2.svg4.97 pp
 Third partyFourth party
  Charilaos Florakis.JPG LeonKyrkos.jpg
Leader Charilaos Florakis Leonidas Kyrkos
Party KKE KKE Interior
Last election10.94%, 13 seats1.35%, 0 seats
Seats won121
Seat changeDecrease2.svg 1Increase2.svg 1
Popular vote629,525117,135
Percentage9.89%1.84%
SwingDecrease2.svg1.05 pp Increase2.svg0.49 pp
Prime Minister before election

Andreas Papandreou
PASOK

Prime Minister after election

Andreas Papandreou
PASOK

Parliamentary elections were held in Greece on 2 June 1985. [1] [2] The ruling PASOK of Andreas Papandreou, was re-elected, defeating the liberal conservative New Democracy party of Constantine Mitsotakis (Mitsotakis succeeded Evangelos Averoff as ND leader in 1984).

Results

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PartyVotes%Seats+/–
PASOK 2,916,73545.82161–11
New Democracy 2,599,68140.84126+11
Communist Party of Greece 629,5259.8912–1
Communist Party of Greece (Interior) 117,1351.841+1
National Political Union 37,9650.600New
Liberal Party 10,5510.1700
Fighting Socialist Party of Greece 10,3690.160New
Revolutionary Communist Movement 6,9510.1100
Communist Left5,3830.080New
Free 5,2120.080New
International Workers' Union – Trotskyists3,6850.0600
Hellenic Christian Social Union2510.000New
Patriotic Right1720.000New
Olympic Democracy1620.0000
Enlighten Movement490.000New
Greens–Ecological Party–Hellenic Alternative Green Movement50.000New
Independents21,2630.3300
Total6,365,094100.003000
Valid votes6,365,09499.11
Invalid/blank votes57,3720.89
Total votes6,422,466100.00
Registered voters/turnout8,008,64780.19
Source:  Ministry of the Interior, Nohlen & Stöver [3]

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References

  1. ↑ 1986 IPU
  2. ↑ Dimitras, Panayote Elias (1985). "The Greek parliamentary election of 1985". Electoral Studies. 4 (3): 261–265. doi:10.1016/0261-3794(85)90019-8. ISSN   0261-3794.
  3. ↑ Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, pp847–862 ISBN   978-3-8329-5609-7
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