1946 Turkish general election

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1946 Turkish general election
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  1943 21 July 1946 1950  

All 465 seats in the Grand National Assembly
233 seats needed for a majority
 First partySecond party
  Inonu Ismet (cropped).jpg Mahmut Celal Bayar.jpg
Leader İsmet İnönü Celâl Bayar
Party CHP DP
Seats won39564

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Prime Minister before election

Şükrü Saraçoğlu
CHP

Elected Prime Minister

Recep Peker
CHP

General elections were held in Turkey on 21 July 1946, [1] the first multi-party general elections in the country's history. The multiple non-transferable vote electoral system was used. [2] The result was a victory for the Republican People's Party, which won 395 of the 465 seats. This election was held on the basis of open voting, secret counting and majority system, with the exception of judicial supervision (open vote, secret classification). Due to these irregularities, it has also been referred to as a "fraudulent election". [3] [4]

Results

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PartySeats
Republican People's Party 395
Democrat Party 64
Independents6
Total465
Source: Nohlen et al.

References

  1. Dieter Nohlen, Florian Grotz & Christof Hartmann (2001) Elections in Asia: A data handbook, Volume I, p248 ISBN   0-19-924958-X
  2. Nohlen et al., p238
  3. Cumhuriyetin 75. Yılı, C. 1, Yapı Kredi Kültür Sanat Yayıncılık, İstanbul, 1998, [ ISBN missing ], s. 291.
  4. Sina Akşin, Ana Çizgileriyle Türkiye'nin Yakın Tarihi, İkinci Baskı, İmaj Yayıncılık, Ankara, 1996, ISBN   975-7852-18-X, s. 216.