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 the 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 results			Votes			Seats
			No.	%	+− %	No.	+−
	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
	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		-
	Revolutionary Communist Party of Greece (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
Total

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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