1979 Turkish Senate election

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Senate elections were held in Turkey on 14 October 1979, with one-third of the 150 seats elected. [1] [2] They were the last elections to the Senate, which was abolished in 1982.

Results

PartyVotes%Seats
Justice Party 2,215,05346.8233
Republican People's Party 1,378,22429.1312
National Salvation Party 459,0409.704
Nationalist Movement Party 312,2416.601
Republican Reliance Party 117,7492.490
Socialist Workers' Party 62,1051.310
Unity Party 55,7741.180
Workers' Party 33,7200.710
Socialist Revolution Party 33,5480.710
Independents63,0931.330
Total4,730,547100.0050
Total votes4,847,156
Registered voters/turnout6,868,53370.57
Source: Nohlen et al. [3]

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References

  1. "8 Million Turks Vote Today in Midterm Elections", The New York Times, October 14, 1979, p. A18
  2. "Results of the senate elections" (in Turkish). Archived from the original on 2012-03-13. Retrieved 2010-12-20.
  3. Dieter Nohlen, Florian Grotz & Christof Hartmann (2001) Elections in Asia: A data handbook, Volume I, pp269–273 ISBN   0-19-924958-X