June 1989 Greek parliamentary election

← 1985

18 June 1989

November 1989 →

All 300 seats in the Hellenic Parliament
151 seats needed for a majority

	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	Konstantinos Mitsotakis	Andreas Papandreou	Charilaos Florakis
Party	ND	PASOK	Synaspismos
Last election	40.84%, 126 seats	45.82%, 161 seats	–
Seats won	145	125	28
Seat change	19	36	New
Popular vote	2,887,488	2,551,518	855,944
Percentage	44.28%	39.13%	13.13%
Swing	3.44 pp	6.69 pp	New

	Fourth party	Fifth party

Leader	Konstantinos Stephanopoulos	Sadik Achmet
Party	DIANA	Trust
Last election	–	–
Seats won	1	1
Seat change	New	New
Popular vote	65,614	25,099
Percentage	1.01%	0.38%
Swing	New	New

Prime Minister before election

Andreas Papandreou
PASOK

Prime Minister after election

Tzannis Tzannetakis
ND

Politics of Greece
This article is part of a series on

Constitution Constitutional history Human rights
Executive Head of state President of the Republic (list): Katerina Sakellaropoulou Presidential Departments Government Prime Minister (list): Kyriakos Mitsotakis Cabinet: Kyr. Mitsotakis II
Legislature Speaker: Konstantinos Tasoulas Presidium Conference of Presidents Parliamentary committees Constituencies Apportionment
Judiciary Supreme courts Special Highest Court Court of Cassation Council of State Chamber of Accounts
Subdivisions Regions Municipalities
Elections Political parties Recent elections: Parliamentary: 2019 2023 (May) 2023 (June) Local: 2014 2019 2023 European: 2014 2019 2024 Referendums: 1973 1974 2015
Foreign relations Ministry for Foreign Affairs Minister: Giorgos Gerapetritis Diplomatic missions of Greece Diplomatic missions in Greece KYSEA International Relations Passport Visa requirements Politics of the European Union
Greece portal Other countries
v t e

Parliamentary elections were held in Greece on 18 June 1989. The liberal-conservative New Democracy party of Konstantinos Mitsotakis defeated PASOK of Andreas Papandreou. However, New Democracy could not form a government, since its 5% lead in the popular vote was not enough to reach a majority because of the proportional representation system voted into electoral law by the previous PASOK government. An agreement between ND and Synaspismos was made to form a short-term government of "katharsis", with a mandate to clean up the various scandals from the outgoing PASOK government. Tzannis Tzannetakis was chosen as a compromise candidate to become Prime Minister, and an agreement was made that the coalition government would resign in October. This was the first, and as of 2024, only time the Communist Party of Greece (as a part of Synaspismos) was part of a governing coalition.

Results



Party		Votes	%	Seats	+/–
	New Democracy	2,887,488	44.28	145	19
	PASOK	2,551,518	39.13	125	–36
	Synaspismos	855,944	13.13	28	New
	Democratic Renewal	65,614	1.01	1	New
	Trust	25,099	0.38	1	New
	National Party–National Political Union	21,149	0.32	0	0
	KKE Interior – Renewing Left	18,159	0.28	0	New
	Greek Socialist Party	13,863	0.21	0	New
	Christian Democracy	11,450	0.18	0	New
	Fate	9,064	0.14	0	New
	Liberal Party	9,001	0.14	0	0
	Ecologist Movement – Political Renewal	8,182	0.13	0	New
	Union of the Democratic Centre	7,770	0.12	0	New
	Alternative Anti-Capitalist Cohesion	6,185	0.09	0	New
	Direct Democracy	5,939	0.09	0	New
	Greek Radical Movement	4,162	0.06	0	New
	Greek Orthodox Movement for Salvation	3,756	0.06	0	New
	Communist Party of Greece (Marxist–Leninist)	3,350	0.05	0	New
	Revolutionary Communist Movement of Greece	2,709	0.04	0	0
	Fighting Socialist Party of Greece	2,317	0.04	0	0
	Self-Governed Movement of Labour Politics	1,912	0.03	0	New
	Marxist–Leninist Communist Party of Greece	1,636	0.03	0	New
	Labour Anti-Imperialistic Movement	1,432	0.02	0	New
	Olympic Party	1,229	0.02	0	New
	Organization for the Reconstruction of the Communist Party of Greece	873	0.01	0	New
	Panhellenic Ecological Movement	403	0.01	0	New
	Independent Personalities	113	0.00	0	New
	Integrated Social Union	65	0.00	0	New
	Independent Movement of Democratic Refresh	54	0.00	0	New
	Collaboration Alliance of Independent Candidate MPs	28	0.00	0	New
	Panhellenic Uncommitted Party of Equality	26	0.00	0	New
	Federal Democratic Party of Greece	25	0.00	0	New
	Party of Humanism and Peace	15	0.00	0	New
	Independent Radical Spring Renewal	10	0.00	0	New
	Independent Social Democratic Revival	10	0.00	0	New
	Olympic Democracy	2	0.00	0	0
	Independents	659	0.01	0	0
Total		6,521,211	100.00	300	0

Valid votes		6,521,211	97.78
Invalid/blank votes		148,017	2.22
Total votes		6,669,228	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		8,302,412	80.33
Source: Nohlen & Stöver

References

Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p830 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7

v t e Elections and referendums in Greece
Parliamentary elections	1823 1826 1829 1843 1844 1847 1850 1853 1856 1859 1861 1862 1865 1868 1869 1872 1873 1874 1875 1879 1881 1885 1887 1890 1892 1895 1899 1902 1905 1906 1910 (Aug) 1910 (Nov) 1912 1915 (May) 1915 (Dec) 1920 1923 1926 1928 1929 1932 1933 1935 1936 1946 1950 1951 1952 1956 1958 1961 1963 1964 1974 1977 1981 1985 1989 (Jun) 1989 (Nov) 1990 1993 1996 2000 2004 2007 2009 2012 (May) 2012 (Jun) 2015 (Jan) 2015 (Sep) 2019 2023 (May) 2023 (Jun) Next
Head of state elections	1862 (King) 1926 (President)
Local elections	1834 1835 1837 1841 1847 1850 1866 1870 1874 1879 1883 1887 1891 1895 1899 1903 1907 1914 1925 1929 1934 1951 1954 1959 1964 1975 1978 1982 1986 1990 1994 1998 2002 2006 2010 2014 2019 2023
European elections	1981 1984 1989 1994 1999 2004 2009 2014 2019 2024
Referendums	1920 1924 1935 1946 1968 1973 1974 2015
See also: Template:Greek presidential elections

Categories: