1927 Turkish general election

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| ← 1923 | 20 July 1927 | 1931 →

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All 335 seats on the Grand National Assembly
168 seats needed for a majority
Turnout| 20%
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Leader  | Mustafa Kemal Atatürk |
Party  | CHP |
Last election  | 332  |
Seats won  | 335 |
Seat change  |  3  |

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| Prime Minister before election

İsmet İnönü
CHP

| Elected Prime Minister

İsmet İnönü
CHP

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General elections were held in Turkey in 1927.[1] The Republican People's Party ("Association for the Defense of the Rights of Anatolia and Rumelia" until 9 September 1923) was the only party in the country at the time, as the Progressive Republican Party that had been set up in 1924 was dissolved the following year.[1]

## Electoral system

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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.[2]

## References

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

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