1981 Greek legislative election

Parliamentary elections were held in Greece on Sunday, 18 October 1981. PASOK, led by Andreas Papandreou, faced New Democracy, led by Georgios Rallis. Papandreou achieved a landslide and PASOK formed the first socialist government in the history of Greece (in 1963 Centrists had formed a government under the leadership of George Papandreou, Andreas' father, but their party, Center Union, was not a socialist party but a centrist, social-liberal one).

1981 Greek legislative election
18 October 1981
All 300 seats in the Hellenic Parliament
151 seats needed for a majority
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Andreas Papandreou Georgios Rallis Charilaos Florakis
Party PASOK ND KKE
Last election 25.34%, 93 seats 41.84%, 171 seats 9.36%, 11 seats
Seats won 172 115 13
Seat change 79 56 2
Popular vote 2,726,309 2,034,496 620,302
Percentage 48.07% 35.88% 10.94%
Swing 22.73pp 5.96pp 1.58pp
Prime Minister before election

Georgios Rallis
ND

 Prime Minister after election

Andreas Papandreou
PASOK

Observers had expected a PASOK victory but were surprised by the size of the victory.

185 of the 300 seats were won by PASOK or the Communist Party: both openly eurosceptic. This was the high point of Greek euroscepticism, coming just months after the country's accession to the European Communities.

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