Country: | Greece |
Type: | parliamentary |
Previous Election: | 1981 Greek_legislative_election |
Previous Year: | 1981 |
Next Election: | June 1989 Greek legislative election |
Next Year: | June 1989 |
Seats For Election: | All 300 seats in the Hellenic Parliament |
Majority Seats: | 151 |
Election Date: | 2 June 1985 |
Leader2: | Constantine Mitsotakis |
Party2: | New Democracy (Greece) |
Last Election2: | 35.88%, 115 seats |
Seats2: | 126 |
Seat Change2: | 11 |
Popular Vote2: | 2,599,681 |
Percentage2: | 40.85% |
Swing2: | 4.97pp |
Image1: | Andreas Papandreou.jpg |
Leader1: | Andreas Papandreou |
Party1: | PASOK |
Last Election1: | 48.07%, 172 seats |
Seats1: | 161 |
Seat Change1: | 11 |
Popular Vote1: | 2,916,735 |
Percentage1: | 45.82% |
Swing1: | 2.25pp |
Image4: | Charilaos Florakis.JPG |
Leader4: | Charilaos Florakis |
Party4: | Communist Party of Greece |
Last Election4: | 10.94%, 13 seats |
Seats4: | 12 |
Seat Change4: | 1 |
Popular Vote4: | 629,525 |
Percentage4: | 9.89% |
Swing4: | 1.05pp |
Image5: | LeonKyrkos.jpg |
Leader5: | Leonidas Kyrkos |
Party5: | Communist Party of Greece (Interior) |
Last Election5: | 1.35%, 0 seats |
Seats5: | 1 |
Seat Change5: | 1 |
Popular Vote5: | 117,135 |
Percentage5: | 1.84% |
Swing5: | 0.49pp |
Prime Minister | |
Posttitle: | Prime Minister after election |
Before Election: | Andreas Papandreou |
Before Party: | PASOK |
After Election: | Andreas Papandreou |
After Party: | PASOK |
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).