1985 Greek parliamentary election

1985 Greek parliamentary election

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All 300 seats in the Hellenic Parliament 151 seats needed for a majority
First party Second party   Leader Andreas Papandreou Constantine Mitsotakis Party PASOK ND Last election 48.07%, 172 seats 35.88%, 115 seats Seats won 161 126 Seat change 11 11 Popular vote 2,916,735 2,599,681 Percentage 45.82% 40.85% Swing 2.25pp 4.97pp   Third party Fourth party   Leader Charilaos Florakis Leonidas Kyrkos Party KKE KKE Interior Last election 10.94%, 13 seats 1.35%, 0 seats Seats won 12 1 Seat change 1 1 Popular vote 629,525 117,135 Percentage 9.89% 1.84% Swing 1.05pp 0.49pp
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). The election campaign was polarised by the constitutional crisis.

Results

Party		Votes	%	Seats	+/–
	PASOK	2,916,735	45.82	161	–11
	New Democracy	2,599,681	40.84	126	+11
	Communist Party of Greece	629,525	9.89	12	–1
	Communist Party of Greece (Interior)	117,135	1.84	1	+1
	National Political Union	37,965	0.60	0	New
	Liberal Party	10,551	0.17	0	0
	Fighting Socialist Party of Greece	10,369	0.16	0	New
	Revolutionary Communist Movement	6,951	0.11	0	0
	Communist Left	5,383	0.08	0	New
	Free	5,212	0.08	0	New
	International Workers' Union – Trotskyists	3,685	0.06	0	0
	Hellenic Christian Social Union	251	0.00	0	New
	Patriotic Right	172	0.00	0	New
	Olympic Democracy	162	0.00	0	0
	Enlighten Movement	49	0.00	0	New
	Greens–Ecological Party–Hellenic Alternative Green Movement	5	0.00	0	New
	Independents	21,263	0.33	0	0
Total		6,365,094	100.00	300	0
Valid votes		6,365,094	99.11
Invalid/blank votes		57,372	0.89
Total votes		6,422,466	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		8,008,647	80.19
Source:  Ministry of the Interior, Nohlen & Stöver [3]

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