Turkish general election, 1946

21 July 1946

Total of 465 seats of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey 233 seats were needed for a majority

	First party	Second party

Leader	İsmet İnönü	Celal Bayar
Party	CHP	Democrat
Seats won	395	61

Prime Minister before election

Şükrü Saraçoğlu
CHP

Elected Prime Minister

Recep Peker
CHP

General elections were held in Turkey on 21 July 1946,^[1] the first multi-party elections in the country's history. The multiple non-transferable vote electoral system was used.^[2] The result was a victory for the Republican People's Party, which won 395 of the 465 seats.

Results

Party	%	Seats
Republican People's Party		395
Democratic Party		64
Independents		6
Invalid/blank votes	–	–
Total		465

Source: Nohlen et al.

References

↑ Dieter Nohlen, Florian Grotz & Christof Hartmann (2001) Elections in Asia: A data handbook, Volume I, p248 ISBN 0-19-924958-X
↑ Dieter Nohlen, Florian Grotz & Christof Hartmann (2001) Elections in Asia: A data handbook, Volume I, p238 ISBN 0-19-924958-X

Elections and referendums in Turkey

Presidential elections	2014

General elections	1923 1927 1931 1935 1939 1943 1946 1950 1954 1957 1961 1965 1969 1973 1977 1983 1987 1991 1995 1999 2002 2007 2011 2015 (Jun) 2015 (Nov) next

Local elections	1930 1934 1938 1942 1946 1950 1955 1963 1968 1973 1977 1984 1989 1994 1999 2004 2009 2014 2019

Senate elections	1961 1964 1966 1968 1973 1975 1977 1979

Referendums	1961 1982 1987 1988 2007 2010 2017

By-elections	1986 2003

See also: Elections in the Ottoman Empire

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