Greece 1981 parliamentary election
Final results from ParlGov, read : PASOK won 172 of 300 seats with 48.1% of the vote; 81.5% of registered voters cast a ballot, up 0.4 points on 1977.
- Greece
- Held
Result
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | ± seats | % | ± points | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PASOKwith United Democratic Left | 172 | +79 | 48.1 | +22.8 | 2,726,309 |
| New Democracy | 115 | −56 | 35.9 | −5.9 | 2,034,496 |
| Communist Party of Greece | 13 | +2 | 10.9 | +1.5 | 620,302 |
| Progressive Party | 0 | 1.7 | 95,799 | ||
| Communist Party of Greece (Interior) | 0 | −1 | 1.3 | −1.4 | 76,404 |
± is the change against the Greece 1977 parliamentary election, party by party.
Votes by party
- PASOK 2,726,309
- New Democracy 2,034,496
- Communist Party of Greece 620,302
- Progressive Party 95,799
- Communist Party of Greece (Interior) 76,404
ParlGov lists parties with at least 1 percent of the vote or 2 seats, so the rows do not add up to the valid votes. How we read it.
ParlGov counts an alliance's votes and seats under its first party: such a row names the allies it counts.
Share of the vote
Turnout
81.5% of the 7,059,778 registered voters cast a ballot (5,753,478 ballots), up 0.4 points on 1977. 5,671,057 of them were valid votes. How turnout is counted.
Votes and seats
- PASOK48.1% of votes57.3% of seats
- New Democracy35.9% of votes38.3% of seats
- Communist Party of Greece10.9% of votes4.3% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 8.3 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 2.7 by votes and 2.1 by seats; PASOK led New Democracy by 12.2 points of the vote. How these are computed.
On the same day
Sources and licence
Sources and licence
- ParlGov 2024 Release (Döring and Manow), Harvard Dataverse (source). Licence: CC0 1.0 Universal
- Wikidata, party colours (P465) (source). Licence: CC0 1.0 Universal
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