1935 Greek legislative election

Parliamentary elections were held in Greece on 9 June 1935. The result was a victory for the People's Party–National Radical Party alliance, which won 287 of the 300 seats in Parliament.

1935 Greek legislative election

9 June 1935

All 300 seats in the Hellenic Parliament
151 seats needed for a majority
  First party Second party
 
Leader Panagis Tsaldaris Ioannis Metaxas
Party LK–ERK EV
Last election 42.16%, 129 seats 2.26%, 6 seats
Seats won 287 7
Seat change 158 1
Popular vote 669,434 152,285
Percentage 65.04% 14.80%
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Prime Minister before election

Panagis Tsaldaris
People's Party

Prime Minister after election

Panagis Tsaldaris
People's Party

The elections were held in a climate of tension between the liberal Republicans, represented by the Venizelist parties, and the pro-royalist People's Party, following the failed Venizelist coup attempt in March. In protest at the execution of two prominent Venizelist generals, the continued function of special courts, and at the new electoral law, which they had not approved, all Venizelist parties decided not to participate. Without opponents, the right-wing parties had no problem in dominating the Parliament, whose role would be to adopt a new constitution and decide about the restoration of monarchy in the person of the exiled King George II.

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