Greek legislative election, 1985

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Greek legislative election, 1985
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  1981 2 June 1985 June 1989  

All 300 seats to the Greek Parliament
151 seats were needed for a majority

 First partySecond partyThird party
  Andreas Papandreou.jpg Constantine Mitsotakis.jpg Charilaos Florakis.JPG
Leader Andreas Papandreou Constantine Mitsotakis Charilaos Florakis
Party PASOK ND KKE
Leader since3 September 197419841974
Last election172 seats, 48.07%115 seats, 35.87%13 seats, 10.93%
Seats won16112612
Seat changeDecrease2.svg 11Increase2.svg 11Decrease2.svg 1
Popular vote2,916,7352,599,681629,525
Percentage45.8%40.8%9.9%
SwingDecrease2.svg 2.3%Increase2.svg 4.9%Decrease2.svg 1.8%

Prime Minister before election

Andreas Papandreou
PASOK

Subsequent Prime Minister

Andreas Papandreou
PASOK

Distribution of parliament seats after the 1985 elections.
Panhellenic Socialist Movement: 161 seats
New Democracy: 126 seats
Communist Party of Greece: 12 seats
Communist Party of Greece (Interior): 1 seats Greek legislative election 1985.svg
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).

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Andreas Papandreou Greek politician

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The New Democracy, also referred to as ND (ΝΔ) by its initials, is a liberal-conservative political party in Greece. In modern Greek politics, New Democracy has been the main centre-right political party and one of the two major parties along with its historic rival, the Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK). Having spent two and a half years in government under the presidency of Antonis Samaras, New Democracy lost its majority in the Hellenic Parliament and became the major opposition party after the January 2015 legislative election.

Results

PartyVotes%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 Party 10,5510.200
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%

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References

  1. Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p830 ISBN   978-3-8329-5609-7