Talk:Elections in Turkey

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Requested move edit

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  • Oppose. Until you explain what you want done in more detail Philip Baird Shearer 15:32, 6 Mar 2005 (UTC)
  • Oppose. The purpose of RM is simply to move a page to a new name, not to delete pages. Jonathunder 18:49, 2005 Mar 6 (UTC)
  • Oppose Merge them, or post a merge/duplication notice. Alai 05:35, 7 Mar 2005 (UTC)

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  • Totally confused Both of these articles have comment -- what are you proposing happens to the content of the latter? Merged? Deleted? Either way, this request would seem to be in the wrong place. Alai 02:20, 6 Mar 2005 (UTC)
  • Also confused. Please explain what you want to do in more detail or I will remain opposed. Philip Baird Shearer 15:32, 6 Mar 2005 (UTC)
The fact is elections in turkey does not need to be an extra topic, all necesary information is avalible at the remote topic. All information here thats not there shold me merged. -- Cat chi? 17:05, 6 Mar 2005 (UTC)
This should should therefore be on Wikipedia:Duplicate articles. violet/riga (t) 18:40, 6 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Done. -- Cat chi? 03:56, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Merger - Demerger edit

Politics of Turkey is part of a series Politics by country. Elections in Turkey was part of a series Elections by country. I will restore the old pages, but will try to make a more clear separation. Gangulf 19:19, 11 Mar 2005 (UTC)

What does this mean? edit

...by mitigated proportional representation with a barrier of 10 %

I have no clue what this means. Can anyone explain? As well, exactly what electoral system does Turkey use? Proportional representation is too broad a category. --Bash 07:45, 3 Apr 2005 (UTC)


It would appear that it means that each party gets the same percentage of seats in parliament as its percentage of the vote, but there are two "mitigating" factors--

 --the 10% barrier.  If a party gets less than 10% of the vote, it gets no seats.  The parties with 10% or more share the seats proportionally.
 --Independants.  A candidate who registers as an independant, rather than part of a party list, gets a seat if he gets 10% of the votes in his province.

The independants had minimal effect in the election for the current parliament--they got only 9 seats, less than 2%.

The barrier had a huge, and presumably unindtended effect. The Islamist party got only 34% of the votes, but a little under 2/3 of the seats, because the vote was fragmented, and only one other party exceeded 10%.

The Islamist majority has attempted to elect an Islamist president, which has provoked a major constitutional crisis. There was talk until yeserday of the Army stepping in once again.

A fresh election has been scheduled, and it will be interesting to see if new election rules, different strategies by the parties, or different choices by the votes restore majority rule, of if a quirk in the election law preserves Islamist minority rule.

I know this will be deleted quickly as it will be viewed as discussion, but I hope a properly qualified person will be stimulated to add to the article, and better explain mitigated proportional representation.

Elections in Turkey edit

Is this first sentence really necessary? --Goog 22:11, Jun 7, 2005 (UTC)


Party name AKP CHP DYP MHP BBP SP, FP ANAP DSP GP Pro-Kurdish SHP, HADEP, DEHAP Ind. or else total
  Adıyaman 2004 % in provincial assembly elections 41,11 13,09 10,41 4,34 1,85 15,04 4,27 1,50 0,98 6,54 0,17 88,60
  Nr. of municipalities held by party in 2004 12 8 2 0 0 3 0 2 0 1 0 28
  Percentage in 2002 general elections ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' '
  1999 % in provincial assembly elections - 15,94 17,48 9,62 5,41 23,53 11,01 7,01 - 5,97 0,61 86,13
  Nr. of municipalities held by party in 1999 - 6 11 1 0 3 5 0 - 1 0 28
  Ağrı 2004 % in provincial assembly elections 34,66 4,33 10,78 2,41 4,84 9,27 6,72 4,00 0,76 19,21 2,39 69,58
  Nr. of municipalities held by party in 2004 5 1 1 0 0 2 1 1 0 1 0 12
  Percentage in 2002 general elections: - ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' '
  1999 % in provincial assembly elections - 6,99 17,78 6,39 5,70 14,72 13,44 5,59 - 22,26 1,66 81,53
  Nr. of municipalities held by party in 1999 - 1 2 1 0 2 2 0 - 4 0 12
Party name AKP CHP DYP MHP BBP SP, FP ANAP DSP GP Pro-Kurdish SHP, HADEP, DEHAP Ind. or else total
  Ardahan 2004 % in provincial assembly elections 26,98 17,04 14,10 9,42 - 4,03 2,72 6,08 2,46 8,76 6,80 70,44
  Nr. of municipalities held by party in 2004 3 3 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 9
  Percentage in 2002 general elections ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' '
  1999 % in provincial assembly elections - 15,21 19,70 7,94 0,56 8,64 17,52 19,06 - 5,83 - 83,77
  Nr. of municipalities held by party in 1999 - 2 2 - 0 - 4 1 - - 0 9
  Batman 2004 % in provincial assembly elections 17,76 3,07 6,08 2,46 2,06 10,57 3,91 0 2,96 49,69 0,61 67,81
  Nr. of municipalities held by party in 2004 4 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 6 0 12
  Percentage in 2002 general elections: - ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' '
  1999 % in provincial assembly elections - 4,86 11,97 1,71 0,61 16,34 9,80 3,07 - 39,27 3,77 85,03
  Nr. of municipalities held by party in 1999 - 1 4 0 0 3 2 0 - 1 1 12
Party name AKP CHP DYP MHP BBP SP, FP ANAP DSP GP Pro-Kurdish SHP, HADEP, DEHAP Ind. or else total
  Bingöl 2004 % in provincial assembly elections 44,30 4,01 9,88 2,01 1,51 13,42 2,03 0,16 3,68 14,77 3,62 69,92
  Nr. of municipalities held by party in 2004 9 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 13
  Percentage in 2002 general elections: - ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' '
  1999 % in provincial assembly elections - 3,86 16,91 8,19 11,86 26,76 13,07 2,02 - 11,82 0,67 84,13
  Nr. of municipalities held by party in 1999 - 2 2 0 0 4 4 0 - 1 0 13
  Bitlis 2004 % in provincial assembly elections 29,11 6,06 9,54 2,85 0,88 11,72 6,91 1,82 6,73 15,19 7,66 74,80
  Nr. of municipalities held by party in 2004 12 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 15
  Percentage in 2002 general elections: - ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' '
  1999 % in provincial assembly elections - 5,49 17,20 5,48 5,05 21,31 19,01 5,32 - 7,40 7,03 86,72
  Nr. of municipalities held by party in 1999 - 1 2 0 0 9 2 0 - 0 1 15
Party name AKP CHP DYP MHP BBP SP, FP ANAP DSP GP Pro-Kurdish SHP, HADEP, DEHAP Ind. or else total
  Diyarbakır 2004 % in provincial assembly elections 30,79 4,05 9,66 1,33 0,28 2,84 1,46 1,06 1,70 41,84 3,38 64,86
  Nr. of municipalities held by party in 2004 9 4 3 0 0 1 1 2 0 12 0 32
  Percentage in 2002 general elections: - ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' '
  1999 % in provincial assembly elections - 3,15 10,91 2,19 0,85 15,69 11,03 5,32 - 40,92 2,86 79,20
  Nr. of municipalities held by party in 1999 - 2 2 0 0 7 7 2 - 10 2 12
  Elazığ 2004 % in provincial assembly elections 33,20 6,72 28,96 7,90 1,81 13,67 0,93 0,45 0,54 3,69 1,22 68,17
  Nr. of municipalities held by party in 2004 14 1 7 2 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 26
  Percentage in 2002 general elections: - ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' '
  1999 % in provincial assembly elections - 7,40 11,31 25,80 4,99 30,70 9,19 4,13 - 3,36 1,05 82,80
  Nr. of municipalities held by party in 1999 - 1 8 3 1 9 4 0 - 0 0 26
Party name AKP CHP DYP MHP BBP SP, FP ANAP DSP GP Pro-Kurdish SHP, HADEP, DEHAP Ind. or else total
  Erzincan 2004 % in provincial assembly elections 40,61 21,24 7,26 16,85 0,72 3,80 0,44 1,06 1,70 3,85 0,01 72,10
  Nr. of municipalities held by party in 2004 20 5 1 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 29
  Percentage in 2002 general elections: - ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' '
  1999 % in provincial assembly elections - 21,55 15,14 25,01 2,52 18,82 6,84 5,19 - 0 0 83,29
  Nr. of municipalities held by party in 1999 - 3 5 7 0 10 2 1 - 0 1 29
  Erzurum 2004 % in provincial assembly elections 48,61 3,59 8,49 18,86 1,46 5,01 3,94 1,06 1,41 4,08 2,81 67,44
  Nr. of municipalities held by party in 2004 31 2 1 2 0 0 1 0 0 0 3 40
  Percentage in 2002 general elections: - ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' '
  1999 % in provincial assembly elections - 5,18 19,84 26,76 3,85 25,30 11,09 4,51 - 2,13 0,02 84,28
  Nr. of municipalities held by party in 1999 - 0 18 10 1 6 3 1 - 0 1 40
Party name AKP CHP DYP MHP BBP SP, FP ANAP DSP GP Pro-Kurdish SHP, HADEP, DEHAP Ind. or else total
  Gaziantep 2004 % in provincial assembly elections 55,11 21,57 6,00 5,36 1,01 3,85 1,01 0,64 1,28 1,81 1,04 73,10
  Nr. of municipalities held by party in 2004 - 3 5 7 0 10 2 1 - 0 1 29
  Percentage in 2002 general elections: - ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' '
  1999 % in provincial assembly elections - 18,42 19,84 17,58 2,02 17,02 10,06 16,11 - 5,02 0,00 84,35
  Nr. of municipalities held by party in 1999 - 3 5 7 0 10 2 1 - 0 1 29
  Hakkari 2004 % in provincial assembly elections 32,03 3,53 4,15 0,99 1,01 1,02 2,52 0,91 2,81 46,56 4,03 77,67
  Nr. of municipalities held by party in 2004 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 4 0 8
  Percentage in 2002 general elections: - ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' '
  1999 % in provincial assembly elections - 7,25 15,49 0,00 0,47 10,02 14,02 7,06 - 42,85 2,42 85,68
  Nr. of municipalities held by party in 1999 - 0 2 0 0 0 3 0 - 3 0 8
Party name AKP CHP DYP MHP BBP SP, FP ANAP DSP GP Pro-Kurdish SHP, HADEP, DEHAP Ind. or else total
  Iğdır 2004 % in provincial assembly elections 23,53 4,68 2,86 23,44 0,00 4,38 3,91 2,73 5,92 24,20 3,43 70,77
  Nr. of municipalities held by party in 2004 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 - 1 1 8
  Percentage in 2002 general elections: - ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' '
  1999 % in provincial assembly elections - 9,79 10,66 18,18 0,60 10,11 10,64 5,02 - 23,56 0,57 81,61
  Nr. of municipalities held by party in 1999 - 0 2 1 0 2 2 0 - 1 0 8
  Kars 2004 % in provincial assembly elections 40,21 11,13 9,46 16,40 0,93 2,69 0,79 4,73 1,55 8,89 1,91 71,80
  Nr. of municipalities held by party in 2004 7 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 10
  Percentage in 2002 general elections: - ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' '
  1999 % in provincial assembly elections - 10,74 14,06 14,59 1,05 10,97 15,26 15,80 - 10,72 0,00 82,06
  Nr. of municipalities held by party in 1999 - 1 5 2 0 0 2 0 - 0 0 10
Party name AKP CHP DYP MHP BBP SP, FP ANAP DSP GP Pro-Kurdish SHP, HADEP, DEHAP Ind. or else total
  Malatya 2004 % in provincial assembly elections 47,57 16,43 3,81 15,20 2,79 5,93 1,03 0,19 1,15 4,25 0,24 64,48
  Nr. of municipalities held by party in 2004 30 6 1 0 1 5 2 0 1 0 9 54
  Percentage in 2002 general elections: - ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' '
  1999 % in provincial assembly elections - 15,13 9,57 21,03 4,67 27,11 10,43 5,37 - 1,72 0,33 79,71
  Nr. of municipalities held by party in 1999 - 7 11 5 3 11 12 0 - 0 4 54
  Mardin 2004 % in provincial assembly elections 23,23 11,75 13,43 1,05 0,02 7,01 5,12 0,28 2,93 27,12 7,28 69,69
  Nr. of municipalities held by party in 2004 11 1 8 0 0 0 2 0 0 8 0 31
  Percentage in 2002 general elections: - ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' '
  1999 % in provincial assembly elections - 6,30 19,50 3,43 0,69 14,67 14,94 8,63 - 22,38 7,72 83,87
  Nr. of municipalities held by party in 1999 - 0 11 0 0 5 6 4 - 5 0 31
Party name AKP CHP DYP MHP BBP SP, FP ANAP DSP GP Pro-Kurdish SHP, HADEP, DEHAP Ind. or else total
  Muş 2004 % in provincial assembly elections 31,20 4,44 11,89 2,73 0,55 7,59 2,03 0,01 4,49 29,56 4,63 74,28
  Nr. of municipalities held by party in 2004 9 2 5 1 0 3 1 0 2 5 0 28
  Percentage in 2002 general elections: - ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' '
  1999 % in provincial assembly elections - 6,69 14,59 7,21 4,37 17,13 11,61 9,29 - 23,86 0,33 81,76
  Nr. of municipalities held by party in 1999 - 2 3 1 0 6 8 3 - 2 2 27
  Siirt 2004 % in provincial assembly elections 39,23 3,14 9,29 1,11 0,45 7,29 3,38 0,20 1,77 27,72 7,28 69,45
  Nr. of municipalities held by party in 2004 7 1 3 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 0 13
  Percentage in 2002 general elections: - ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' '
  1999 % in provincial assembly elections - 8,51 22,29 4,38 3,79 14,67 14,87 6,83 - 20,13 7,72 84,28
  Nr. of municipalities held by party in 1999 - 0 3 0 0 5 2 0 - 2 1 13
Party name AKP CHP DYP MHP BBP SP, FP ANAP DSP GP Pro-Kurdish SHP, HADEP, DEHAP Ind. or else total
  Şanlıurfa 2004 % in provincial assembly elections 43,04 9,26 14,94 2,97 0,07 5,27 1,03 0,29 0,40 16,95 4,81 72,55
  Nr. of municipalities held by party in 2004 10 3 6 1 0 1 0 0 0 5 0 26
  Percentage in 2002 general elections: - ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' '
  1999 % in provincial assembly elections - 7,76 23,04 7,18 1,48 22,03 16,86 4,51 - 12,06 0,95 85,50
  Nr. of municipalities held by party in 1999 - 3 7 0 0 5 8 0 - 4 0 26
  Şırnak 2004 % in provincial assembly elections 24,79 5,25 16,82 1,11 0,13 7,29 3,48 0,20 3,86 38,27 6,13 71,16
  Nr. of municipalities held by party in 2004 4 1 8 0 0 0 1 0 0 5 1 20
  Percentage in 2002 general elections: - ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' '
  1999 % in provincial assembly elections - 9,95 18,86 3,36 - 14,55 27,27 11,64 - - 1,01 82,99
  Nr. of municipalities held by party in 1999 - 1 9 0 0 0 7 1 - 1 1 13
Party name AKP CHP DYP MHP BBP SP, FP ANAP DSP GP Pro-Kurdish SHP, HADEP, DEHAP Ind. or else total
  Tunceli 2004 % in provincial assembly elections 16,93 19,71 6,99 1,33 0,18 7,59 2,03 7,63 4,49 23,01 11,34 74,28
  Nr. of municipalities held by party in 2004 5 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 10
  Percentage in 2002 general elections: - ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' '
  1999 % in provincial assembly elections - 27,64 12,16 4,99 0,89 1,58 8,32 14,71 - 12,33 0,33 82,25
  Nr. of municipalities held by party in 1999 - 3 1 0 0 0 1 1 - 0 4 10
  Van 2004 % in provincial assembly elections 44,83 5,54 7,15 1,13 1,04 3,65 4,49 0,45 0,69 26,66 7,28 47,36
  Nr. of municipalities held by party in 2004 11 1 6 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 20
  Percentage in 2002 general elections: - ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' '
  1999 % in provincial assembly elections - 6,26 13,53 6,41 4,24 20,10 13,94 3,38 - 28,41 7,72 81,03
  Nr. of municipalities held by party in 1999 - 2 4 0 0 6 4 1 - 3 0 20

Summary of latest results edit

My original edit to this page included a shorter version of the 2002 election results - that is to say, only the parties that won more than five percent of the national vote. A link was included to the main article, which contains the full results. My edit was reverted in part by user Electionworld, who put back in the full results. I personally feel a brief summary is better for this page, but don't want to revert Electionworld's changes unilaterally. What do others think? - Mikedaventry 23.02, Sep 26, 2006 (UTC)

At the moment all 'latest' election results except for the last months are in templates. The main reason for that is to have identical results througout Wikipedia. It wouldn't be good that the specific election page says that a party has x seats and another page says a party has x+1 seat. This makes the election coverage consistent. It has an disadvantage, the results can be very comprehensive. We could delete the parties with less than e.g. 1 % of the vote from the template and add the smaller parties in a separate table in the main article. Personally I don't mind the more comprehensive table. So for reasons of consistency, I would object not to have the template, but I am open for alterations in the template. Electionworld Talk? 07:23, 27 September 2006 (UTC)Reply

d'Hondt? Confusion! edit

Grand National Assembly of Turkeysays

"Election of its 550 members, who serve five-year terms, is by D'Hondt method, a party-list proportional representation system."

while this article doesn't mention that all? What is going on? Thanks,Evilbu 00:42, 2 December 2006 (UTC)Reply

Percentage of votes edit

The results of 2007 elections has been given. But there is no mention of percentage of votes in other elections. The number of seats does not reflect the popular politic trends. For example in 1950, CHP received % 39 of votes but the number of CHP seats was not more than % 15. In 1987 elections ANAP received % 36 of votes , but won % 65 of seats. So tables should be added to this article showing percentage of votes. Nedim Ardoğa (talk) 10:10, 30 October 2009 (UTC)Reply

Next election is when ? edit

Is there is an election in Turkey this year ?

If their legislature elected in June 2011 has a four year term, doesn't that imply an election this year ?

Perhaps it is time for someone to create one.Lathamibird (talk) 05:36, 10 March 2015 (UTC)Reply

Merge edit

The reasons should be obvious, both articles talk about the same thing, only one is a proper article, and the other is just a list of SOME of the elections. Openlydialectic (talk) 14:21, 24 June 2018 (UTC)Reply

    Y Merger complete. Klbrain (talk) 08:13, 15 October 2019 (UTC)Reply