Greek legislative election, 1974
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The first free elections since 1964 and after the end of the Greek military junta of 1967-1974 took place in Greece in 1974 during metapolitefsi.
The winner was Konstantinos Karamanlis and his newly formed conservative party, ND (New Democracy, Νέα Δημοκρατία). Karamanlis had already formed a government of national unity just after the fall of the dictatorship. The second biggest party was the centrist Center Union - New Forces (Ένωσις Κέντρου-Νέες Δυνάμεις). Third power in the Parliament became the newly formed PASOK (Panhellenic Sosialist Movement, Πανελλήνιο Σοσιαλιστικό Κίνημα), a radical socialist party led by Andreas Papandreou, son of the former prime minister Georgios Papandreou.
| Summary of the 17 November 1974 Greek Parliament (Vouli ton Ellinon) election resultsedit | Votes | Seats | |||||
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| No. | % | +− % | No. | +− | |||
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New Democracy (ND) | Konstantinos Karamanlis | 2,669,133 | 54.37 | 220 | ||
| Center Union - New Forces (EK-ND) | George Mavros | 1,002,559 | 20.42 | 60 | |||
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Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK) | Andreas Papandreou | 666,413 | 13.58 | 12 | ||
| United Left (EDA, KKE, KKE Interior) | Ilias Iliou | 464,787 | 9.47 | 8 | |||
| National Democratic Union | Petros Garoufalias | 52,768 | 1.08 | - | |||
| Democratic Center Union | Ioannis Zigdis | 8,509 | 0.17 | - | |||
| EKKE | 1,539 | 0.03 | - | ||||
| Liberal Democratic Union-Socialist Party | 975 | 0.02 | 0 | ||||
| Others | 42,291 | 0.86 | - | ||||
| No. of valid votes | 300 | ||||||
| Invalid votes | |||||||
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[edit] Post-election
The priorities of the Karamanlis' government were:
- The adoption of a new Constitution
- The abolition of Monarchy after a free referendum
- The submission of a new application for Greece's accession to the European Community.
In 1975 Konstantinos Tsatsos, a close friend of Karamanlis, was elected President of the Republic by the Greek Parliament.
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