1985 Greek legislative election|
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| 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 | 11 | 11 | Popular vote | 2,916,735 | 2,599,681 | Percentage | 45.82% | 40.85% | Swing | 2.25pp | 4.97pp | | | 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 | 1 | 1 | Popular vote | 629,525 | 117,135 | Percentage | 9.89% | 1.84% | Swing | 1.05pp | 0.49pp | |
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Parliamentary elections were held in Greece on 2 June 1985.[1] The ruling PASOK of Andreas Papandreou, was re-elected, defeating the liberal conservative New Democracy party of Constantine Mitsotakis (Mitsotakis succeeded Evangelos Averoff as ND leader in 1984).
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Party | Votes | % | Seats | +/– |
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| PASOK | 2,916,735 | 45.82 | 161 | –11 |
| New Democracy | 2,599,681 | 40.84 | 126 | +11 |
| Communist Party of Greece | 629,525 | 9.89 | 12 | –1 |
| Communist Party of Greece (Interior) | 117,135 | 1.84 | 1 | +1 |
| National Political Union | 37,965 | 0.60 | 0 | New |
| Liberal Party | 10,551 | 0.17 | 0 | 0 |
| Fighting Socialist Party of Greece | 10,369 | 0.16 | 0 | New |
| Revolutionary Communist Movement | 6,951 | 0.11 | 0 | 0 |
| Communist Left | 5,383 | 0.08 | 0 | New |
| Free | 5,212 | 0.08 | 0 | New |
| International Workers' Union – Trotskyists | 3,685 | 0.06 | 0 | 0 |
| Hellenic Christian Social Union | 251 | 0.00 | 0 | New |
| Patriotic Right | 172 | 0.00 | 0 | New |
| Olympic Democracy | 162 | 0.00 | 0 | 0 |
| Enlighten Movement | 49 | 0.00 | 0 | New |
| Greens–Ecological Party–Hellenic Alternative Green Movement | 5 | 0.00 | 0 | New |
| Independents | 21,263 | 0.33 | 0 | 0 |
Total | 6,365,094 | 100.00 | 300 | 0 |
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Valid votes | 6,365,094 | 99.11 | |
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Invalid/blank votes | 57,372 | 0.89 | |
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Total votes | 6,422,466 | 100.00 | |
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Registered voters/turnout | 8,008,647 | 80.19 | |
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Source: Ministry of the Interior, Nohlen & Stöver[2] |