November 1989 Greek parliamentary election

November 1989 Greek parliamentary election
5 November 1989
All 300 seats in the Hellenic Parliament
151 seats needed for a majority
Registered8,425,212
Turnout80.70% ( 0.37pp)
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Konstantinos Mitsotakis Andreas Papandreou Charilaos Florakis
Party ND PASOK Synaspismos
Last election 44.28%, 145 seats 39.13%, 125 seats 13.13%, 28 seats
Seats won 148 128 21
Seat change 3 3 7
Popular vote 3,093,055 2,723,739 734,552
Percentage 46.19% 40.67% 10.97%
Swing 1.91 pp 1.55 pp 2.16 pp
  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 
Leader Dimitris Chatzhpanagiotou Sadik Achmet Achmet Faikoglu
Party OE Trust Fate
Last election – 0.38%, 1 seat 0.14%, 0 seats
Seats won 1 1 1
Seat change New 1
Popular vote 39,130 26,012 10,971
Percentage 0.58% 0.39% 0.16%
Swing New 0.01 pp 0.04 pp
Prime Minister before election

Giannis Grivas
Independent

Prime Minister after election

Xenophon Zolotas
Independent

Early parliamentary elections were held in Greece on 5 November 1989. The liberal-conservative New Democracy party of Konstantinos Mitsotakis emerged as the largest party in Parliament, defeating PASOK of Andreas Papandreou. However, as in June 1989, Mitsotakis was unable to form a government since his party had failed to win a majority of seats. A National Unity government was formed under Xenophon Zolotas (a retired banker at the age of 85) as a way out of the deadlock and to restore public trust in political institutions after the recent indictments of Papandreou and four of his ministers for the Koskotas scandal.

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