1985 Greek legislative election

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).

1985 Greek legislative election

2 June 1985
All 300 seats in the Greek Parliament 151 seats were needed for a majority
Leader Andreas Papandreou Constantine Mitsotakis Charilaos Florakis Party PASOK ND KKE Leader since 3 September 1974 1984 1974 Last election 172 seats, 48.07% 115 seats, 35.87% 13 seats, 10.93% Seats won 161 126 12 Seat change 11 11 1 Popular vote 2,916,735 2,599,681 629,525 Percentage 45.8% 40.8% 9.9% Swing 2.3% 4.9% 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

Results

Party	Votes	%	Seats	+/–
Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK)	2,916,735	45.8	161	–11
New Democracy (ND)	2,599,681	40.8	126	+11
Communist Party of Greece (KKE)	629,525	9.9	12	–1
Communist Party of Greece (Interior) (KKE Interior)	117,135	1.8	1	+1
National Political Union (EPEN)	37,965	0.6	0	New
Liberal Party	10,551	0.2	0	0
Revolutionary Communist Movement of Greece (EKKE)	6,951	0.1	0	0
Communist Left	5,383	0.1	0	New
Liberals	5,212	0.1	0	New
EDE-Trotskyists	3,685	0.1	0	0
Fighting Socialist Party of Greece (ASKE)	1,369	0.0	0	New
Hellenic Christian Social Union	251	0.0	0	New
Patriotic Right	172	0.0	0	New
Olympic Democracy	162	0.0	0	0
Enlighten Movement	49	0.0	0	New
Greens-Ecological Party of Greece-Hellenic Alternative Green Movement	5	0.0	0	New
Independents	30,263	0.3	0	0
Invalid/blank votes	57,372	–	–	–
Total	6,422,466	100	300	0
Registered voters/turnout	8,008,647	80.2	–	–
Source: Nohlen & Stöver[2]

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%

References

1. 1986 IPU
2. Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, pp847–862 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7