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 Konstantinos 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]

By constituency

Constituency	PASOK		ND		KKE		KKE-ES
	%	±	%	±	%	±	%	±
Achaea	52.53	3.39	36.14	5.52	8.84	0.35	1.42	0.38
Aetolia-Akarnania	46.27	2.06	41.67	1.77	9.90	0.59	1.11	0.46
Argolis	43.50	1.03	48.86	2.03	5.12	0.17	1.05	0.36
Arkadia	44.85	0.06	45.13	2.23	7.37	0.08	1.28	0.51
Arta	41.82	0.59	45.93	0.59	9.91	0.65	1.26	0.50
Athens A	39.76	4.68	44.05	9.63	10.64	1.99	4.37	1.11
Athens B	44.99	3.74	34.79	8.43	15.51	2.53	3.56	0.81
Attica	43.54	6.04	44.10	9.25	9.66	1.07	1.49	0.62
Boeotia	47.60	5.26	40.01	4.96	9.26	0.10	1.71	0.64
Cephalonia	44.07	1.51	37.33	4.37	15.63	1.69	1.74	0.53
Chalkidiki	44.70	1.27	47.82	1.97	5.45	0.05	1.01	0.20
Chania	54.96	0.30	31.16	6.05	10.44	1.52	1.29	0.49
Chios	52.33	3.36	39.09	3.59	5.91	0.27	1.65	0.64
Corfu	51.05	0.27	34.66	0.62	11.15	0.47	1.97	0.52
Corinthia	47.34	3.57	45.50	5.19	4.34	0.27	1.40	0.64
Cyclades	48.12	1.10	45.39	0.36	4.31	0.25	1.14	0.47
Dodecanese	56.67	1.52	36.10	5.81	5.08	0.19	1.12	0.32
Drama	47.69	0.78	46.31	2.57	3.71	0.80	0.99	0.25
Elis	50.22	1.98	41.61	1.17	5.99	0.28	1.03	0.51
Euboea	50.31	4.74	40.19	8.12	7.29	0.21	1.07	0.44
Evros	44.56	1.26	47.67	6.82	5.39	0.01	0.94	0.21
Evrytania	49.88	3.28	43.23	2.00	5.08	0.85	0.83	0.47
Florina	42.79	3.28	47.72	0.97	6.88	0.25	0.90	0.27
Grevena	46.55	1.37	39.17	5.00	11.56	0.75	1.26	0.30
Heraklion	64.32	1.58	26.02	6.82	7.38	1.08	1.19	0.35
Imathia	47.82	2.41	40.51	4.45	9.13	1.08	1.28	0.44
Ioannina	44.60	1.21	38.25	1.63	13.92	2.24	1.67	0.54
Karditsa	44.20	0.35	40.89	0.08	12.22	0.08	1.18	0.43
Kastoria	38.95	0.83	53.81	1.45	4.31	0.13	0.99	0.36
Kavala	47.45	1.13	42.79	3.93	7.30	1.51	1.17	0.13
Kilkis	41.90	1.24	46.37	4.52	9.23	1.98	0.98	0.10
Kozani	45.65	0.56	44.28	0.17	7.72	0.26	1.24	0.42
Laconia	34.87	0.55	56.92	3.12	5.46	0.04	1.02	0.44
Larissa	44.00	1.06	39.21	3.01	14.15	1.15	1.42	0.40
Lasithi	61.59	1.65	31.14	1.89	5.93	0.19	0.65	0.23
Lefkada	41.15	1.29	35.53	2.06	19.06	0.02	3.06	0.84
Lesbos	44.48	4.58	30.23	1.16	22.58	3.46	1.62	0.19
Magnesia	45.41	0.98	39.02	3.75	12.96	1.52	1.39	0.16
Messenia	40.86	1.25	48.70	2.90	7.83	0.37	1.12	0.51
Pella	49.13	1.56	43.08	3.66	5.49	0.61	0.93	0.31
Phocis	42.41	3.89	48.11	4.88	6.73	0.19	1.23	0.59
Phthiotis	45.45	2.89	45.06	5.17	6.90	0.54	1.26	0.50
Pieria	46.22	1.84	44.73	3.94	6.62	1.09	0.99	0.21
Piraeus A	44.08	4.09	42.54	8.37	9.55	2.65	2.66	0.74
Piraeus B	49.33	1.83	29.70	6.61	17.13	4.15	2.64	0.55
Preveza	42.96	3.22	42.73	1.60	11.60	1.30	1.22	0.31
Rethymno	57.20	6.05	34.33	9.66	6.03	0.45	0.97	0.38
Rhodope	30.42	20.41	49.92	10.06	2.90	1.21	0.65	0.13
Samos	40.99	7.20	36.20	5.01	19.30	1.82	2.48	0.02
Serres	43.04	2.26	47.75	3.70	6.68	0.86	1.03	0.31
Thesprotia	49.37	6.31	39.11	4.35	8.61	1.34	1.58	0.67
Thessaloniki A	44.67	2.96	41.21	8.39	10.31	2.79	2.66	0.58
Thessaloniki B	44.47	2.28	44.14	5.58	9.14	1.39	1.06	0.23
Trikala	45.31	2.71	38.31	3.27	13.61	0.12	1.04	0.19
Xanthi	32.22	2.62	45.97	9.15	2.35	0.43	0.85	0.12
Zakynthos	43.84	0.72	38.80	1.71	14.97	0.86	1.58	0.18

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