1935 Turkish general election

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1935 Turkish general election
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  1931 8 February 1935 1939  

All 428 seats in the Grand National Assembly
215 seats needed for a majority
 First partySecond party
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Leader Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
Party CHP Independents
Last election28730 seats
Seats won40127
Seat changeIncrease2.svg 114Decrease2.svg 3

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Prime Minister before election

İsmet İnönü
CHP

Elected Prime Minister

İsmet İnönü
CHP

General elections were held in Turkey on 8 February 1935. [1] The Republican People's Party was the only party in the country at the time.

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Electoral system

The elections were held under the Ottoman electoral law passed in 1908, [1] which provided for a two-stage process. In the first stage, voters elected secondary electors (one for the first 750 voters in a constituency, then one for every additional 500 voters). In the second stage the secondary electors elected the members of the Turkish Grand National Assembly. [2]

Following a change in the law in 1934, women were granted the right to vote and run for election, and the age of voting was raised from 18 to 22. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Myron E. Weiner, Ergun Özbudun (1987) Competitive Elections in Developing Countries, Duke University Press, p337
  2. Weiner & Özbudun, p334