1939 Turkish general election

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1939 Turkish general election
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  1935 26 March 1939 1943  
 First party
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Leader İsmet İnönü
Party CHP

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Prime Minister before election

Refik Saydam
CHP

Elected Prime Minister

Refik Saydam
CHP

General elections were held in Turkey on 26 March 1939. [1] The Republican People's Party was the only party in the country at the time. Voter turnout was reported to be 77.8%. [2]

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. [3]

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References

  1. 1 2 Myron E. Weiner, Ergun Özbudun (1987) Competitive Elections in Developing Countries, Duke University Press, p337
  2. Weiner & Özbudun, p340
  3. Weiner & Özbudun, p334