1965 Turkish general election

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10 October 1965

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450 seats in the Grand National Assembly
226 seats needed for a majority

Turnout

71.26% (

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	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	Süleyman Demirel	İsmet İnönü	Osman Bölükbaşı
Party	AP	CHP	MP
Last election	34.78%, 158 seats	36.73%, 173 seats	–
Seats won	240	134	31
Seat change	82	39	New
Popular vote	4,921,235	2,675,785	582,704
Percentage	52.87%	28.75%	6.26%
Swing	18.09pp	7.98pp	New

Prime Minister before election

Suat Hayri Ürgüplü

Elected Prime Minister

Süleyman Demirel
AP

General elections were held in Turkey on 10 October 1965. The result was a victory for the Justice Party, which won 240 of the 450 seats. Voter turnout was 71.3%.

Electoral system

The national remnant electoral system was used. This was a two-tier system of party-list proportional representation, with the country divided into 66 districts. In each district, parties were awarded one seat for each Hare quota. Remaining votes and seats were pooled on the national level, where the remaining seats were distributed amongst the parties using the remaining votes using the Hare quota and largest remainder method.

Results



Party		Votes	%	Seats	+/–
	Justice Party	4,921,235	52.87	240	+82
	Republican People's Party	2,675,785	28.75	134	–39
	Nation Party	582,704	6.26	31	New
	New Turkey Party	346,514	3.72	19	–46
	Workers' Party	276,101	2.97	14	New
	Republican Villagers Nation Party	208,696	2.24	11	–43
	Independents	296,528	3.19	1	+1
Total		9,307,563	100.00	450	0

Valid votes		9,307,563	95.48
Invalid/blank votes		441,115	4.52
Total votes		9,748,678	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		13,679,753	71.26
Source: Nohlen et al.

References

Dieter Nohlen, Florian Grotz & Christof Hartmann (2001) Elections in Asia: A data handbook, Volume I, p272 ISBN 0-19-924958-X
Nohlen et al., p239

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