The Greek legislative election of the 29 October 1961 resulted in the third in a row victory for Constantine Karamanlis

Constantine Karamanlis

Konstantínos G. Karamanlís , commonly anglicised to Constantine Karamanlis or Caramanlis, was a four-time Prime Minister, the 3rd and 5th President of the Third Hellenic Republic and a towering figure of Greek politics whose political career spanned much of the latter half of the 20th century.-...

 and his National Radical Union

National Radical Union

The National Radical Union was a Greek political party formed in 1955 by Konstantinos Karamanlis out of the Greek Rally party....

 party.

Nevertheless, the leader of the newly formed Center Union

Center Union

The Centre Union was a Greek political party, created in 1961 by George Papandreou, senior.The party was elected to power in 1963, with Papandreou as Prime Minister...

 (an alliance of all liberal and centrist parties), Georgios Papandreou and the leaders of the left-wing Pandemocratic Agrarian Front questioned the legality of the results, supporting that Karamanlis, the army and the palace rigged the vote. Papandreou announced an "uncompromising struggle" against Karamanlis' government, demanding new elections.
Karamanlis denied all the allegations of Papandreou, although the opposition parties insisted in them. Eventually, the elections of 1961 became known in the Greek political history as the elections of "violence and fraud".

rowspan=2 colspan=3 valign=top|Summary of the 29 October 1961 Greek Parliament

Hellenic Parliament

The Hellenic Parliament , also the Parliament of the Hellenes, is the Parliament of Greece, located in the Parliament House , overlooking Syntagma Square in Athens, Greece....

 election results
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||National Radical Union (ERE)

National Radical Union

The National Radical Union was a Greek political party formed in 1955 by Konstantinos Karamanlis out of the Greek Rally party....

|Constantine Karamanlis

Constantine Karamanlis

Konstantínos G. Karamanlís , commonly anglicised to Constantine Karamanlis or Caramanlis, was a four-time Prime Minister, the 3rd and 5th President of the Third Hellenic Republic and a towering figure of Greek politics whose political career spanned much of the latter half of the 20th century.-...

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|align="right"|50.80
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|align="center"|152
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|Center Union (EK)

Center Union

The Centre Union was a Greek political party, created in 1961 by George Papandreou, senior.The party was elected to power in 1963, with Papandreou as Prime Minister...

 
Progressive Party
|Georgios Papandreou 
Spiros Markezinis

Spiros Markezinis

Spyridon Markezinis or Markesinis was a Greek politician, longtime member of the Hellenic Parliament, and briefly Prime Minister during the aborted attempt at democratization of the Greek military regime in 1973.-Early political life:Spyros Markezinis was a scion of an old wealthy family of...

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|align="right"|33.65
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|align="center"|101
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|Pandemocratic Agrarian Front
|Ioannis Passalidis
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|align="right"|14.62
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|align="center"|44
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|Lists of Independents and others
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|align="right"|0.89
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|align="center"|3
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|colspan="3"|Totals
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|align="right"|100.00
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|align="center"|300
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|colspan="3"|Constituencies
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|align="right"|55
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|align="center"|300
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|colspan="3"|Valid votes
|align="right"|4,620,683
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|colspan="3"|Invalid votes
|align="right"|20,803
|align="left"|(0.44%)
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|colspan="3"|Total number of votes
|align="right"|4,641,486
|align="left"|(81,6%)
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|colspan="3"|Valid electorate
|align="right"|5,688,298
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|colspan="3"|Population
|align="right"|7,643,888
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|colspan=3|Sources: Texts of Constitutional History, vol. 2, p. 845.
Archives of Constantine Karamanlis
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