Greek legislative election, 1961

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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, questioned the legality of the results, supporting that Karamanlis and the palace rigged the vote. Papandreou announced an "uncompromising battle" against Karamanlis' government, demanding new and fair elections. Karamanlis denied all the allegations of Papandreou, although the latter insisted in his allegations, speaking for elections of "violence and fraud".

Summary of the 29 October 1961 Greek Parliament election resultsedit			Votes			Seats
			No.	%	+− %	No.	+−
	National Radical Union (ERE)	Constantine Karamanlis		50.80		176
	Center Union (EK) Progressive Party	Georgios Papandreou Spiros Markezinis		33.65		100
	Pandemocratic Agrarian Front	Dimitrios Pasalidis		14.62		24
	Lists of Independents and others			0.89		-
Totals				100.00		300
Constituencies				55		300
Valid votes			4,620,683
Invalid votes			20,803	(0.44%)
Total number of votes			4,641,486	(81,6%)
Valid electorate			5,688,298
Population			7,643,888
Sources: Texts of Constitutional History, vol. 2, p. 845. Archives of Constantine Karamanlis

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