1974 Greek legislative election

1974 Greek legislative election
All 300 seats in the Hellenic Parliament; 151 seats needed for a majority
Prime Minister before election; Konstantinos Karamanlis; ND	Prime Minister after election ; Konstantinos Karamanlis; ND

Parliamentary elections were held in Greece on 17 November 1974.^[1] They were the first after the end of the military junta of 1967–1974, and took place during the metapolitefsi era. The winner was Konstantinos Karamanlis and his newly formed conservative party, New Democracy. Karamanlis had already formed a government of national unity just after the fall of the dictatorship. The second-largest party was the centrist Center Union – New Forces. The third party in the Parliament became the newly formed PASOK, a radical socialist party led by Andreas Papandreou, son of the former Prime Minister Georgios Papandreou.

Electoral system

The members of the Hellenic Parliament were elected via open list proportional representation in 56 multi-member constituencies using the Hagenbach-Bischoff system.

Additionally, 5% of seats (in this case, 12) were reserved for "state deputies" nominated by the parties, who neither belonged to a particular constituency nor competed for election. These seats were allocated proportionally between the parties.

Results



Party		Votes	%	Seats
	New Democracy	2,669,133	54.37	220
	Centre Union – New Forces	1,002,559	20.42	60
	PASOK	666,413	13.58	12
	United Left	464,787	9.47	8
	National Democratic Union	52,768	1.07	0
	Democratic Centre Union	8,509	0.17	0
	Revolutionary Communist Movement	1,539	0.03	0
	Liberal Democratic Union–Socialist Party	975	0.02	0
	Independents	42,291	0.86	0
Total		4,908,974	100.00	300

Valid votes		4,908,974	98.90
Invalid/blank votes		54,584	1.10
Total votes		4,963,558	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		6,241,066	79.53
Source: Nohlen & Stöver