Greek legislative election, 1961
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The Greek legislative election of the 19 February 1961 resulted in the third in a row victory for Constantine Karamanlis and his National Radical Union party.
Nevertheless, the leader of the newly formed Center Union (an alliance of all liberal and centrist parties), Georgios Papandreou and the leaders of the left-wing Pandemocratic Agrarian Front questioned the legality of the results, supporting that Karamanlis, the army and the palace rigged the vote. Papandreou announced an "uncompromising struggle" against Karamanlis' government, demanding new elections. Karamanlis denied all the allegations of Papandreou, although the opposition parties insisted in them. Eventually, the elections of 1961 became known in the Greek political history as the elections of "violence and fraud".
| Summary of the 29 October 1961 Greek Parliament election results | Votes | Seats | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. | % | +− % | No. | +− | |||
| National Radical Union (ERE) | Constantine Karamanlis | 50.80 | 152 | ||||
| Center Union (EK) Progressive Party |
Georgios Papandreou Spiros Markezinis |
33.65 | 101 | ||||
| Pandemocratic Agrarian Front | Ioannis Passalidis | 14.62 | 44 | ||||
| Lists of Independents and others | 0.89 | 3 | |||||
| Totals | 100.00 | 300 | |||||
| Constituencies | 55 | 300 | |||||
| Valid votes | 4,620,683 | ||||||
| Invalid votes | 20,803 | (0.44%) | |||||
| Total number of votes | 4,641,486 | (81,6%) | |||||
| Valid electorate | 5,688,298 | ||||||
| Population | 7,643,888 | ||||||
| Sources: Texts of Constitutional History, vol. 2, p. 845. Archives of Constantine Karamanlis |
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