- Greek legislative election, 1961
The Greek legislative election of the
19 February 1961 resulted in the third in a row victory forConstantine Karamanlis and hisNational 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".election-table rowspan=2 colspan=3 valign=top|Summary of the
29 October 1961 Greek Parliament election results!colspan="3" cellpadding="10" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|Votes!colspan="2" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|Seats
- style="background-color:#E9E9E9"!No.!% !align="center"|+− %!align="center"|No.!align="center"|+−
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|National Radical Union (ERE)Constantine Karamanlis
align="right"
align="right"|50.80
align="center"
align="center"|152
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Center Union (EK)
Progressive Party
Georgios Papandreou
Spiros Markezinis
align="right"
align="right"|33.65
align="center"
align="center"|101
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Pandemocratic Agrarian Front Ioannis Passalidis
align="right"
align="right"|14.62
align="center"
align="center"|44
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Lists of Independents and others|
align="right"
align="right"|0.89
align="center"
align="center"|3
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-
colspan="3"|Totals
align="right"
align="right"|100.00
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align="center"|300
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-
colspan="3"|Constituencies
align="right"
align="right"|55
align="center" bgcolor="white"|
align="center"|300
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colspan="3"|Valid votes
align="right"|4,620,683
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colspan="3"|Invalid votes
align="right"|20,803
align="left"|(0.44%)
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colspan="3"|Total number of votes
align="right"|4,641,486
align="left"|(81,6%)
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colspan="3"|Valid electorate
align="right"|5,688,298
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colspan="3"|Population
align="right"|7,643,888
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colspan=3|Sources: "Texts of Constitutional History", vol. 2, p. 845.
"Archives of Constantine Karamanlis"
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