Turkish general election, 1923

Turkish general election, 1923
Turkey
28 June 1923
Total of 333 seats of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey
164 seats were needed for a majority
  First party
 
Leader Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
Party Association for the Defense of the Rights of Anatolia and Rumelia
Leader's seat Ankara
Seats won 333
Seat change Increase333
Prime Minister before election

Rauf Orbay
CHP

 Elected Prime Minister

Rauf Orbay
CHP

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General elections were held in Turkey in 1923.[1] The Republican People's Party was the only party in the country at the time.

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 Chamber of Deputies. However, a second law was passed on 3 April 1923 lowering the voting age to 18 and abolishing the tax-paying requirement.[2]

References

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