Greek legislative election, 1989 (June)
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Legislative elections were held in the Hellenic Republic
Greece
Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....

 on June 18, 1989. At stake were 300 seats in the Greek parliament, the Voule.

The liberal-conservative New Democracy
New Democracy (Greece)
New Democracy is the main centre-right political party and one of the two major parties in Greece. It was founded in 1974 by Konstantinos Karamanlis and formed the first cabinet of the Third Hellenic Republic...

 party of Constantine Mitsotakis
Constantine Mitsotakis
Constantine Mitsotakis , a Greek politician, was born in Chania, Crete. He came from a political family: his father and grandfathers were members of parliament, and the great liberal leader Eleftherios Venizelos was his uncle...

 defeated the Panhellenic Socialist Movement
Panhellenic Socialist Movement
The Panhellenic Socialist Movement , known mostly by its acronym PASOK , is one of the two major political parties in Greece. Founded on 3 September 1974 by Andreas Papandreou, in 1981 PASOK became Greece's first social democratic party to win a majority in parliament.The party is a socialist party...

 (PASOK) of Andreas Papandreou
Andreas Papandreou
Andreas G. Papandreou ; 5 February 1919 – 23 June 1996) was a Greek economist, a socialist politician and a dominant figure in Greek politics. The son of Georgios Papandreou, Andreas was a Harvard-trained academic...

. However, New Democracy could not form a government, despite its 5% lead in the popular vote, because of the electoral law that the previous PASOK government had voted into effect before the elections requiring a party to win 50 percent of the vote in order to govern alone.

rowspan=2 colspan=3 valign=top|Summary of the 18 June 1989 Greek Parliament
Hellenic Parliament
The Hellenic Parliament , also the Parliament of the Hellenes, is the Parliament of Greece, located in the Parliament House , overlooking Syntagma Square in Athens, Greece....

 election results
Greek legislative election, 1989 (June)
Legislative elections were held in the Hellenic Republic on June 18, 1989. At stake were 300 seats in the Greek parliament, the Voule.The liberal-conservative New Democracy party of Constantine Mitsotakis defeated the Panhellenic Socialist Movement of Andreas Papandreou...


!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"|+−
|-
|
|New Democracy
New Democracy (Greece)
New Democracy is the main centre-right political party and one of the two major parties in Greece. It was founded in 1974 by Konstantinos Karamanlis and formed the first cabinet of the Third Hellenic Republic...


|Constantine Mitsotakis
Constantine Mitsotakis
Constantine Mitsotakis , a Greek politician, was born in Chania, Crete. He came from a political family: his father and grandfathers were members of parliament, and the great liberal leader Eleftherios Venizelos was his uncle...


|align="right"|2,887,488
|align="right"|44.3%
|align="center"|+3.5%
|align="center"|145
|align="center"|+19
|-
|
|Panhellenic Socialist Movement
Panhellenic Socialist Movement
The Panhellenic Socialist Movement , known mostly by its acronym PASOK , is one of the two major political parties in Greece. Founded on 3 September 1974 by Andreas Papandreou, in 1981 PASOK became Greece's first social democratic party to win a majority in parliament.The party is a socialist party...


|Andreas Papandreou
Andreas Papandreou
Andreas G. Papandreou ; 5 February 1919 – 23 June 1996) was a Greek economist, a socialist politician and a dominant figure in Greek politics. The son of Georgios Papandreou, Andreas was a Harvard-trained academic...


|align="right"|2,551,518
|align="right"|39.1%
|align="center"|-6.7%
|align="center"|125
|align="center"|-36
|-
|
|Coalition of the Left and Progress
|Charilaos Florakis
Charilaos Florakis
Charilaos Florakis was a leader of the Communist Party of Greece .Florakis was born on 20 July 1914 in the village of Paliozoglopi, located near Agrafa in the Itamos municipality, prefecture of Karditsa, Greece. He joined KKE, in 1941...


|align="right"|855,944
|align="right"|13.1%
|align="center"|+4.0%
|align="center"|28
|align="center"|+16
|-
|
|*Communist Party of Greece
Communist Party of Greece
Founded in 1918, the Communist Party of Greece , better known by its acronym, ΚΚΕ , is the oldest party on the Greek political scene.- Foundation :...


|Charilaos Florakis
Charilaos Florakis
Charilaos Florakis was a leader of the Communist Party of Greece .Florakis was born on 20 July 1914 in the village of Paliozoglopi, located near Agrafa in the Itamos municipality, prefecture of Karditsa, Greece. He joined KKE, in 1941...


|align="right"|
|align="right"|
|align="center"|
|align="center"|22
|align="center"|
|-
|
|*Greek Left
Greek Left
Greek Left was a Greek leftwing political party.It emerged, in January 1987, from the split in the Communist Party of Greece into the Communist Party of Greece -Renewing Left and the Greek Left. Its ideology was Eurocommunism....

 (Elliniki Aristera)

|Leonidas Kyrkos
Leonidas Kyrkos
Leonidas Kyrkos was a Greek leftist politician and member of the Hellenic Parliament and the European Parliament.-Life:...


|align="right"|
|align="right"|
|align="center"|
|align="center"|4
|align="center"|
|-
|
|*United Democratic Left
United Democratic Left
The United Democratic Left was a political party in Greece, active mostly before the Greek military junta of 1967-1974.-Foundation:...


|
|align="right"|
|align="right"|
|align="center"|
|align="center"|1
|align="center"|
|-
|
|*Independent
|
|align="right"|
|align="right"|
|align="center"|
|align="center"|1
|align="center"|
|-
|
|Democratic Renewal
Democratic Renewal
Democratic Renewal was a Greek political party founded by Konstantinos Stephanopoulos on September 6, 1985. It continued to exist until June 1994....


|Konstantinos Stefanopoulos
|align="right"|65,614
|align="right"|1.0%
|align="center"|-
|align="center"|1
|align="center"|-
|-
|
|Independent Muslim List
|
|align="right"|34,145
|align="right"|0.5%
|align="center"|+0.2%
|align="center"|1
|align="center"|+1
|-
|
|National Political Union
National Political Union
The National Political Union, better known as EPEN was a Greek far-right political party. The party was founded on January 30, 1984 by jailed former junta leader Georgios Papadopoulos. It participated in the 1985 general election...


|
|align="right"|21,149
|align="right"|0.3%
|align="center"|-0.0%
|align="center"|-
|align="center"|-
|-
|
|Communist Party of Greece (Interior)-Renewing Left
Renewing Communist Ecological Left
Renewing Communist Ecological Left is a political party in Greece. It was formed mostly by members of the late eurocommunist-influenced KKE Interior.In the 2000 parliamentary elections AKOA supported Synaspismos...


|Yiannis Banias
|align="right"|18,114
|align="right"|0.3%
|align="center"|-1.5%
|align="center"|0
|align="center"|-1
|-
|
|Christian Democracy
|
|align="right"|11,450
|align="right"|0.2%
|align="center"|-
|align="center"|-
|align="center"|-
|-
|
|Liberal Party
Liberal Party (Greece)
The Liberal Party was one of the major Greek political parties of the early 20th century.- History :Founded as the Xipoliton party in Crete , its early leaders were Kostis Mitsotakis and Eleftherios Venizelos...


|
|align="right"|9,001
|align="right"|0.1%
|align="center"|-0.1%
|align="center"|0
|align="center"|-
|-
|
|Ecology Movement
|
|align="right"|2,079
|align="right"|0.1%
|align="center"|-
|align="center"|-
|align="center"|-
|-
|
|Center Union
Center Union
The Centre Union was a Greek political party, created in 1961 by George Papandreou, senior.The party was elected to power in 1963, with Papandreou as Prime Minister...


|
|align="right"|7,770
|align="right"|0.1%
|align="center"|-
|align="center"|-
|align="center"|-
|-
|
|Others
|
|align="right"|50,836
|align="right"|0.8%
|align="center"|-
|align="center"|-
|align="center"|-
|-
|colspan="3"|No. of valid votes
|align="right"|6,521,211
|align="center"|100.00
|align="center" bgcolor="white"| 
|align="center"|300
|align="center" bgcolor="white"| 
|-
|colspan="3"|Invalid votes
|align="right"|148,017
|colspan="4" rowspan="2" bgcolor="white"| 
|-
|colspan="3"|Total
|align="right"|6,669,228
(84.5%)
|-
|colspan=7|Source:
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