1985 Greek legislative election

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1985 Greek legislative 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 Decrease 11 Increase 11
Popular vote 2,916,735 2,599,681
Percentage 45.82% 40.85%
Swing Decrease2.25pp Increase4.97pp
  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 Decrease 1 Increase 1
Popular vote 629,525 117,135
Percentage 9.89% 1.84%
Swing Decrease1.05pp Increase0.49pp
Prime Minister before election

Andreas Papandreou
PASOK

Prime Minister after election

Andreas Papandreou
PASOK

Parliamentary elections were held in

Constantine Mitsotakis (Mitsotakis succeeded Evangelos Averoff
as ND leader in 1984).

Results

PartyVotes%Seats+/–
PASOK2,916,73545.82161–11
New Democracy2,599,68140.84126+11
Communist Party of Greece629,5259.8912–1
Communist Party of Greece (Interior)117,1351.841+1
National Political Union37,9650.600New
Liberal Party10,5510.1700
Fighting Socialist Party of Greece10,3690.160New
Revolutionary Communist Movement6,9510.1100
Communist Left5,3830.080New
Free5,2120.080New
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[2]

References

  1. ^ 1986 IPU
  2. ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
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