Greece 1985 parliamentary election
Final results from ParlGov, read : PASOK won 161 of 300 seats with 45.8% of the vote; 80.2% of registered voters cast a ballot, down 1.3 points on 1981.
- Greece
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Result
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | ± seats | % | ± points | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PASOKwith United Democratic Left | 161 | −11 | 45.8 | −2.3 | 2,916,735 |
| New Democracy | 126 | +11 | 40.8 | +4.9 | 2,599,681 |
| Communist Party of Greece | 12 | −1 | 9.9 | −1.0 | 629,525 |
| Communist Party of Greece (Interior) | 1 | +1 | 1.8 | +0.5 | 117,135 |
± is the change against the Greece 1981 parliamentary election, party by party.
Votes by party
- PASOK 2,916,735
- New Democracy 2,599,681
- Communist Party of Greece 629,525
- Communist Party of Greece (Interior) 117,135
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
80.2% of the 8,008,647 registered voters cast a ballot (6,422,466 ballots), down 1.3 points on 1981. 6,365,094 of them were valid votes. The lowest turnout since 1974 in our data. How turnout is counted.
Votes and seats
- PASOK45.8% of votes53.7% of seats
- New Democracy40.8% of votes42.0% of seats
- Communist Party of Greece9.9% of votes4.0% of seats
- Communist Party of Greece (Interior)1.8% of votes0.3% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 7.1 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 2.6 by votes and 2.1 by seats; PASOK led New Democracy by 5.0 points of the vote. How these are computed.
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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