Country: | Second Hellenic Republic |
Type: | parliamentary |
Previous Election: | 1933 Greek legislative election |
Previous Year: | 1933 |
Next Election: | 1936 Greek legislative election |
Next Year: | 1936 |
Seats For Election: | All 300 seats in the Hellenic Parliament |
Majority Seats: | 151 |
Election Date: | 9 June 1935 |
Image1: | PnagiotisTsaldaris1932.jpg |
Leader1: | Panagis Tsaldaris |
Party1: | LK–ERK |
Last Election1: | 42.16%, 129 seats |
Seats1: | 287 |
Seat Change1: | 158 |
Popular Vote1: | 669,434 |
Percentage1: | 65.04% |
Swing1: | 22.88pp |
Leader2: | Ioannis Metaxas |
Party2: | EV |
Last Election2: | 2.26%, 6 seats |
Seats2: | 7 |
Seat Change2: | 1 |
Popular Vote2: | 152,285 |
Percentage2: | 14.80% |
Swing2: | 12.54pp |
Color2: | 00008b |
Prime Minister | |
Posttitle: | Prime Minister after election |
Before Election: | Panagis Tsaldaris |
Before Party: | People's Party (Greece) |
After Election: | Panagis Tsaldaris |
After Party: | People's Party (Greece) |
Parliamentary elections were held in Greece on 9 June 1935.[1] The result was a victory for the People's Party–National Radical Party alliance, which won 287 of the 300 seats in Parliament.
The elections were held in a climate of tension between the liberal Republicans, represented by the Venizelist parties, and the pro-royalist People's Party, following the failed Venizelist coup attempt in March. In protest at the execution of two prominent Venizelist generals, the continued function of special courts, and at the new electoral law, which they had not approved, all Venizelist parties decided not to participate. Without opponents, the right-wing parties had no problem in dominating the Parliament, whose role would be to adopt a new constitution and decide about the restoration of monarchy in the person of the exiled King George II.