1980 Piraean general election

1980 Piraean general election

1 February 1980
All 125 seats to the Piraean Courts 61 seats needed for a majority
Turnout	79.8%
Party Leader % Seats People's Party Ioannis Apostolou 54.4 68 Piraese Socialist Workers Union Andrianos Rodiales 32 40 Centre Union 6.4 8 Democratic Socialism 2.4 3 Progressive Federation 2.4 3 Humanist Centre-Greeen 0.8 1 New Force-National Alliance 0.98 1 National Party 0.8 1 This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
Most voted-for party by region in Piraea proper
Premier before Premier after Ioannis Christodoulopoulos Military dictatorship Ioannis Apostolou LK

The 1980 Piraean general election was the first democratic election of Piraea after the military dictatorship to elect the members of the Piraean Courts (now Senate) and the new premier of the republic. It was extraordinarily held on 1 February 1980 and marked the start of the Piraean metapolitefsi.

The elections were agreed in 1979, after the military junta lost the national plebiscite in which it sought to legitimise a new leader. In September of 1979, the two largest parties of Piraea, the PSEE and the People's Party, signed, together with other minor legal parties, the conditions for the transition under the Hankssun 300 Pact; the military junta agreed the disassociation from the new government and institutions on the conditions of inmunity and the outlaw of the Piraese Section of the Workers' International. Most of the members of the illegal PTED participated under the Progressive Federation platform together with other clandestine leftist minor groups.

Background

1979 national plebiscite

Main article: 1979 Piraean national plebiscite

Participating parties

See also: List of political parties in Piraea

Results

Party		Seats
	People's Party	68
	Piraese Socialist Workers Union	40
	Centre Union	8
	Democratic Socialism	3
	Progressive Federation	3
	Humanist Centre-Greeen	1
	New Force-National Alliance	1
	National Party	1
Total		125
Source: Ministry of Interior and Information

Government formation and investiture

Candidate	Date	Vote									Total
Ioannis Apostolou	15 February 1980 Absolute majority required (61/125)	Yes Y	68		8						68 / 125
		No		40		3	3	1			47 / 125
		Abs.							1	1	2 / 125