Parliamentary elections were held in Greece on 17 November 1974.Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p830 They were the first after the end of the military junta of 1967–1974, and took place during the metapolitefsi era. The winner was Konstantinos Karamanlis and his newly formed conservative party, New Democracy. Karamanlis had already formed a government of national unity just after the fall of the dictatorship. The second-largest party was the centrist Centre Union – New Forces. The third party in the Parliament became the newly formed PASOK, a radical socialist party led by Andreas Papandreou, son of the former Prime Minister Georgios Papandreou.

Electoral system The members of the Hellenic Parliament were elected via open list proportional representation in 56 multi-member constituencies using the Hagenbach-Bischoff system.

Additionally, 5% of seats (in this case, 12) were reserved for "state deputies" nominated by the parties, who neither belonged to a particular constituency nor competed for election. These seats were allocated proportionally between the parties.

Results

By constituency ConstituencyNDEK-NDPASOKEA%±%±%±%± Achaea 52.01 19.37 14.29 43.55 24.81New 8.13 1.37 Aetolia-Akarnania 59.88 22.50 15.52 37.48 15.83New 7.02 2.59 Argolis 68.03 18.84 12.91 37.80 15.63New 1.93New Arkadia 65.15 17.14 21.93 30.04 9.42New 2.69New Arta 64.70 9.57 11.86 38.00 15.38New 4.85New Athens A 54.02 17.21 20.11 25.97 11.68New 12.73 4.25 Athens B 46.58 19.67 21.27 27.08 13.17New 17.82 6.62 Attica 62.67 26.36 17.28 37.53 11.94New 7.08 1.78 Boeotia 59.81 30.18 15.41 54.90 15.57New 6.20New Cephalonia 57.54 21.37 22.18 41.40 7.75New 12.12New Chalkidiki 66.49 21.28 16.46 38.32 12.10New 4.44New Chania 15.26 6.68 37.91 38.69 18.11New 9.50 5.30 Chios 53.19 19.06 29.28 36.57 10.89New 5.98New Corfu 48.27 9.80 18.66 26.69 22.49New 10.09 6.06 Corinthia 63.78 17.57 14.42 39.36 17.96New 2.87New Cyclades 62.91 9.32 23.81 22.51 10.44New 2.01New Dodecanese 45.35 13.61 16.98 51.27 21.01New 2.39New Drama 58.57 18.46 15.67 36.34 17.88New 4.51 3.35 Elis 53.23 22.41 27.81 41.36 14.78New 2.60New Euboea 58.62 19.35 21.91 32.47 14.19New 4.57 1.67 Evros 63.97 22.05 19.06 29.26 11.51New 4.15 5.41 Evrytania 64.28 23.19 20.73 38.17 13.14New 1.84New Florina 70.63 20.46 18.51 24.94 5.97New 4.04New Grevena 59.31 18.21 21.40 26.82 13.47New 5.39 4.94 Heraklion 26.25 10.54 38.74 35.35 27.80New 6.97 3.22 Imathia 54.92 24.15 20.64 33.18 15.63New 8.35 7.04 Ioannina 62.02 25.33 19.94 27.31 9.63New 7.74 5.31 Karditsa 52.55 18.42 18.99 35.21 13.26New 8.59 3.07 Kastoria 63.39 9.11 22.07 23.64 4.66New 1.64New Kavala 56.99 24.72 17.97 32.01 11.54New 11.63 6.11 Kilkis 57.28 16.24 15.62 25.20 12.09New 10.46 7.66 Kozani 62.32 19.13 19.00 27.00 12.15New 5.52 4.83 Laconia 76.04 12.14 12.92 23.16 7.06New 3.04New Larissa 53.66 25.78 20.35 32.40 13.37New 11.88 7.47 Lasithi 30.25 16.68 45.99 40.43 20.40New 2.13New Lefkada 46.96 12.91 18.22 13.30 6.68New 27.14 7.28 Lesbos 42.88 26.89 16.77 32.67 15.14New 24.54 5.03 Magnesia 51.45 23.96 25.22 28.28 8.49New 14.82 4.17 Messenia 62.56 12.74 17.30 26.92 13.54New 4.44 1.51 Pella 60.57 25.56 16.26 39.81 17.00New 4.78 4.13 Phocis 66.43 22.52 18.61 37.47 8.49New 3.79New Phthiotis 65.54 22.21 20.63 35.93 7.76New 4.53New Pieria 63.02 23.51 17.34 33.03 11.73New 6.98 3.13 Piraeus A 54.29 18.99 19.52 28.52 12.90New 12.26 4.28 Piraeus B 39.64 22.45 24.10 24.54 12.38New 23.14 10.69 Preveza 58.97 19.24 16.38 43.88 17.12New 5.01New Rethymno 35.19 20.98 18.64 67.14 20.52New 3.08New Rhodope 44.70 5.87 39.34 10.08 7.61New 1.62New Samos 51.22 9.14 24.51 12.05 7.21New 16.37 4.97 Serres 66.77 24.53 13.30 31.64 12.19New 7.37 5.43 Thesprotia 61.66 25.13 21.67 41.79 14.20New 2.15 1.37 Thessaloniki A 54.50 23.14 17.32 26.52 10.92New 15.87 8.89 Thessaloniki B 56.94 21.29 15.37 31.18 14.93New 11.83 5.95 Trikala 53.82 24.95 21.20 34.89 11.18New 9.62 5.41 Xanthi 52.57 17.19 23.64 37.22 8.23New 1.95New Zakynthos 53.14 10.80 33.05 24.60 4.85New 7.87New

Seat allocation with the current system The seat allocation for the 1974 election was done using the 1974-1985 system, which was notorious for greatly favouring only parties that had received more than 17% of the public vote. As a result, PASOK and EA received only 12 and 8 seats, despite receiving 13.5% and 9.5% of the public vote respectively. The seat allocation by region using the system used from 2007 onwards is presented below.

RegionNDEK-ND PASOKEAS±S±S±S± Attica 39 4 14 2 8 2 11 4 Central Greece 14 3 4 1 2 2 – 0 Central Macedonia 29 7 7 1 4 3 4 3 Crete 6 0 4 5 5 4 1 1 Eastern Macedonia and Thrace 14 1 3 1 1 1 1 1 Epirus 8 3 2 1 2 2 – 0 Ionian Islands 4 3 2 2 1 1 – 0 North Aegean 5 2 2 1 – 0 1 1 Peloponnese 18 2 2 1 3 3 – 0 South Aegean 6 0 1 1 1 1 – 0 Thessaly 16 1 4 3 2 1 3 3 Western Greece 15 1 3 2 4 1 2 2 Western Macedonia 8 2 2 2 – 0 – 0 Greece 7 2 2 1 2 2 1 1 Total 189 31 52 8 35 23 24 16

Aftermath These were the priorities of the Karamanlis's government: The adoption of a new constitution The abolition of the monarchy after a free referendum The submission of a new application for Greece to join the European Community.

The new government decided on a referendum on retaining the republic, which was held on 8 December 1974.

In 1975 Konstantinos Tsatsos, a close friend of Karamanlis, was elected President of the Republic by parliament.

Notes

References

Further reading