Greek legislative election, 1961

Greek legislative election, 1961

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".

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"|+−
-|
|National Radical Union (ERE)
Constantine Karamanlis
align="right"
align="right"|50.80
align="center"
align="center"|152
align="center"
-

Center Union (EK)
Progressive Party
Georgios Papandreou
Spiros Markezinis
align="right"
align="right"|33.65
align="center"
align="center"|101
align="center"
-

Pandemocratic Agrarian Front
Ioannis Passalidis
align="right"
align="right"|14.62
align="center"
align="center"|44
align="center"
-

Lists of Independents and others|
align="right"
align="right"|0.89
align="center"
align="center"|3
align="center"
-
colspan="3"|Totals
align="right"
align="right"|100.00
align="center" bgcolor="white"|
align="center"|300
align="center" bgcolor="white"|
-
colspan="3"|Constituencies
align="right"
align="right"|55
align="center" bgcolor="white"|
align="center"|300
align="center" bgcolor="white"|
-
colspan="3"|Valid votes
align="right"|4,620,683
align="center"
align="center" bgcolor="white"|
align="center"
align="center" bgcolor="white"|
-
colspan="3"|Invalid votes
align="right"|20,803
align="left"|(0.44%)
align="center" bgcolor="white"|
align="center"
align="center" bgcolor="white"|
-
colspan="3"|Total number of votes
align="right"|4,641,486
align="left"|(81,6%)
align="center" bgcolor="white"|
align="center"
align="center" bgcolor="white"|
-
colspan="3"|Valid electorate
align="right"|5,688,298
align="center"
align="center" bgcolor="white"|
align="center"
align="center" bgcolor="white"|
-
colspan="3"|Population
align="right"|7,643,888
align="center"
align="center" bgcolor="white"|
align="center"
align="center" bgcolor="white"|
-
colspan=3|Sources: "Texts of Constitutional History", vol. 2, p. 845.
"Archives of Constantine Karamanlis"
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