Greek legislative election, 1935
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The Greek legislative election of 9 June 1935 resulted in a victory for the People's Party of Panagis Tsaldaris.
The elections were held in a climate of tension between the liberal Republicans, represented by the Venizelist parties, and the pro-royalist People's Party, following the failed Venizelist coup attempt in March. In protest at the execution of two prominent Venizelist generals, the continued function of special courts, and at the new electoral law, which they had not approved, all venizelist parties decided not to participate.
Without opponents, the right-wing parties had no problem in dominating the Parliament, whose role would be to adopt a new Constitution and decide about the restoration of monarchy in the person of the exiled King George II.
| Summary of the 9 June 1935 Greek Parliament election resultsedit | Votes | Seats | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. | % | +− % | No. | +− | |||
| Union of Royalists | Ioannis Metaxas Ioannis Rallis Georgios Stratos |
14.80 | 7 | ||||
| People's Party National Radical Party |
Panagis Tsaldaris | 65.04 | 287 | ||||
| Macedonian Union | 2.88 | - | |||||
| National Union | 0.25 | - | |||||
| Communists (KKE) and others | 9.59 | - | |||||
| Others | 6.89 | 6 | |||||
| Totals | 100.00 | ||||||
| Constituencies | 38 | 300 | |||||
| Valid votes | 1,029,196 | ||||||
| Invalid votes | 61,166 | (5.61%) | |||||
| Total number of votes | 1,090,362 | ||||||
| Valid electorate | |||||||
| Population | 6,127,593 | ||||||
| Source: Texts of Constitutional History, vol. 2, p. 414. Encyclopedian Dictionary "the Sun", Volume 17, Article: Panagis Tsaldaris |
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