All 300 seats in the Hellenic Parliament 151 seats needed for a majority
First party
Second party
Third party
Leader
Andreas Papandreou
Georgios Rallis
Charilaos Florakis
Party
PASOK
ND
KKE
Last election
25.34%, 93 seats
41.84%, 171 seats
9.36%, 11 seats
Seats won
172
115
13
Seat change
79
56
2
Popular vote
2,726,309
2,034,496
620,302
Percentage
48.07%
35.88%
10.94%
Swing
22.73pp
5.96pp
1.58pp
Prime Minister before election
Georgios Rallis
ND
Prime Minister after election
Andreas Papandreou
PASOK
Parliamentary elections were held in Greece on Sunday, 18 October 1981.[1][2] PASOK, led by Andreas Papandreou, faced New Democracy, led by Georgios Rallis. Papandreou achieved a landslide and PASOK formed the first socialist government in the history of Greece (in 1963 Centrists had formed a government under the leadership of George Papandreou, Andreas' father, but their party, Center Union, was not a socialist party but a centrist, social-liberal one).
Observers had expected a PASOK victory but were surprised by the size of the victory.[2]
185 of the 300 seats were won by PASOK or the Communist Party: both openly eurosceptic. This was the high point of Greek euroscepticism, coming just months after the country's accession to the European Communities.[3]
^Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p830 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
^ abClogg, Richard (1982). "The greek elections of 1981". Electoral Studies. 1 (1): 95–99. doi:10.1016/0261-3794(82)90132-9. ISSN 0261-3794.
^Verney, Susannah (March 2011). "An exceptional case? Party and popular Euroscepticism in Greece, 1959–2009". South European Society and Politics. 16 (1): 51–79. doi:10.1080/13608746.2010.538960. S2CID 154573367.
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