1961 Greek parliamentary election

1961 Greek parliamentary election
29 October 1961
All 300 seats in the Hellenic Parliament
151 seats needed for a majority
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Konstantinos Karamanlis Georgios Papandreou Ioannis Passalidis
Party ERE EK–KP PAME
Last election 41.16%, 171 seats 31.29%, 46 seats 24.42%, 60 seats
Seats won 176 100 24
Seat change 5 54 36
Popular vote 2,347,824 1,555,442 675,867
Percentage 50.81% 33.66% 14.63%
Swing 9.65 pp 2.37 pp 9.79 pp
Prime Minister before election

Konstantinos Karamanlis
ERE

 Prime Minister after election

Konstantinos Karamanlis
ERE

Parliamentary elections were held in Greece on 29 October 1961 to elect members of the Hellenic Parliament. The result was a third consecutive victory for Konstantinos Karamanlis and his National Radical Union (ERE), which won 176 of the 300 seats.

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