1923 Turkish general election
28 June 1923
All 333 seats in the Grand National Assembly
167 seats needed for a majority
  First party
 
Leader Mustafa Kemal Pasha
Party ARMHC
Seats won 332
Prime Minister before election

Rauf Orbay
ARMHC

 Elected Prime Minister

Rauf Orbay
ARMHC

General elections were held in Turkey in 1923.[1] The Association for Defence of National Rights (later 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 Turkish Grand National Assembly. 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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