1950 Turkish general election
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487 seats in the Grand National Assembly 244 seats needed for a majority | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Turnout | 89.3% [1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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General elections were held in
Democrat Party
(DP), which won 416 of the 487 seats with 55% of the vote.
Unlike the previous elections in 1946, the 1950 elections took place in a calm atmosphere. The results meant that Republican People's Party (CHP) was ousted from power for the first time since the foundation of the republic. Due to the electoral system designed to boost the dominant party's parliamentary numbers, the Democrat Party won 85% of the seats with only 55% of the popular vote. The CHP won 14% of the seats despite receiving nearly 40% of the popular vote.
Results
Democrat Party 4,391,694 | 55.22 | 416 | +352 | | |||||
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Republican People's Party | 3,148,626 | 39.59 | 69 | –326 | |||||
Nation Party | 368,537 | 4.63 | 1 | New | |||||
Independents | 44,537 | 0.56 | 1 | –5 | |||||
Total | 7,953,394 | 100.00 | 487 | +22 | |||||
Registered voters/turnout | 8,905,743 | – | |||||||
Source: YSK |
Province | DP | % | CHP | % | MP | % | Independents | % |
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Adana | 91.178 | 53,0 | 77.189 | 44,9 | 3.515 | 2,0 | - | - |
Afyonkarahisar | 81.505 | 57,0 | 48.131 | 33,7 | 13.293 | 9,3 | - | - |
Ağrı | 34.115 | 64,1 | 18.664 | 35,1 | - | - | 448 | 0,8 |
Amasya | 33.824 | 53,4 | 29.548 | 46,6 | - | - | - | - |
Ankara | 146.876 | 49,1 | 126.081 | 42,1 | 26.196 | 8,8 | - | - |
Antalya | 67.867 | 64,7 | 37.025 | 35,3 | - | - | - | - |
Artvin | 30.691 | 54,4 | 23.765 | 42,1 | 1.956 | 3,5 | - | - |
Aydın | 76.896 | 54,7 | 60.860 | 43,3 | 2.820 | 2,0 | - | - |
Balıkesir | 142.239 | 58,6 | 100.680 | 41,4 | - | - | - | - |
Bilecik | 32.613 | 54,0 | 27.772 | 46,0 | - | - | - | - |
Bingöl | 8.341 | 32,6 | 15.700 | 61,3 | - | - | 1.560 | 6,1 |
Bitlis | 7.989 | 27,8 | 16.025 | 55,7 | - | - | 4.732 | 16,5 |
Bolu | 80.675 | 65,4 | 38.577 | 31,3 | 4.032 | 3,3 | - | - |
Burdur | 29.783 | 45,9 | 14.479 | 22,3 | 189 | 0,3 | 20.419 | 31,5 |
Bursa | 138.445 | 58,7 | 97.532 | 41,3 | - | - | - | - |
Çanakkale | 77.296 | 65,7 | 40.180 | 34,1 | - | - | 189 | 0,2 |
Çankırı | 47.769 | 61,5 | 20.013 | 25,8 | 4.136 | 5,3 | 5.695 | 7,3 |
Çorum | 89.390 | 65,5 | 47.099 | 34,5 | - | - | - | - |
Denizli | 76.760 | 59,7 | 51.728 | 40,3 | - | - | - | - |
Diyarbakır | 53.691 | 52,8 | 48.000 | 47,2 | - | - | - | - |
Edirne | 47.715 | 54,1 | 36.238 | 41,1 | 4.178 | 4,7 | 10 | 0,0 |
Elazığ | 37.983 | 53,5 | 32.972 | 46,5 | - | - | - | - |
Erzincan | 25.311 | 39,6 | 38.631 | 60,4 | - | - | - | - |
Erzurum | 88.711 | 64,3 | 49.219 | 35,7 | - | - | - | - |
Eskişehir | 65.368 | 60,6 | 37.343 | 34,6 | 4.096 | 3,8 | 1.092 | 1,0 |
Gaziantep | 69.792 | 58,6 | 49.333 | 41,4 | - | - | - | - |
Giresun | 62.026 | 62,4 | 37.417 | 37,6 | - | - | - | - |
Gümüşhane | 36.778 | 46,3 | 29.616 | 37,3 | - | - | 13.049 | 16,4 |
Hakkari |
- | - | 12.384 | 100,0 | - | - | - | - |
Hatay | 49.240 | 47,8 | 53.818 | 52,2 | - | - | - | - |
Isparta | 45.154 | 59,9 | 30.233 | 40,1 | - | - | - | - |
Mersin | 73.269 | 62,0 | 43.814 | 37,1 | 1.124 | 1,0 | - | - |
İstanbul |
238.763 | 56,6 | 110.299 | 26,1 | 72.737 | 17,2 | - | - |
İzmir | 188.476 | 56,7 | 137.622 | 41,4 | 6.038 | 1,8 | - | - |
Kars | 54.112 | 41,1 | 76.561 | 58,2 | - | - | 917 | 0,7 |
Kastamonu | 70.422 | 43,9 | 63.809 | 39,7 | 26.307 | 16,4 | - | - |
Kayseri | 100.268 | 66,9 | 47.946 | 32,0 | 1.597 | 1,1 | - | - |
Kırklareli | 42.840 | 53,9 | 36.607 | 46,1 | - | - | - | - |
Kırşehir | 23.568 | 35,7 | 21.408 | 32,5 | 17.675 | 26,8 | 3.310 | 5,0 |
Kocaeli | 105.910 | 59,2 | 64.828 | 36,2 | 8.251 | 4,6 | - | - |
Konya | 163.222 | 59,2 | 111.139 | 40,3 | - | - | 1.573 | 0,6 |
Kütahya | 87.792 | 51,6 | 62.992 | 37,0 | 19.317 | 11,4 | - | - |
Malatya | 64.834 | 40,6 | 94.677 | 59,4 | - | - | - | - |
Manisa | 128.199 | 58,6 | 90.412 | 41,4 | - | - | - | - |
Kahramanmaraş | 52.823 | 44,8 | 39.045 | 33,1 | - | - | 26.121 | 22,1 |
Mardin | 45.078 | 32,7 | 44.882 | 32,6 | - | - | 47.771 | 34,7 |
Muğla | 53.719 | 55,1 | 43.842 | 44,9 | - | - | - | - |
Muş | 16.880 | 51,3 | 16.040 | 48,7 | - | - | - | - |
Niğde | 70.796 | 55,4 | 55.175 | 43,2 | 1.849 | 1,4 | - | - |
Ordu | 61.184 | 50,0 | 61.111 | 50,0 | - | - | - | - |
Rize | 42.038 | 70,0 | 18.021 | 30,0 | - | - | - | - |
Samsun | 98.336 | 57,5 | 71.678 | 41,9 | 884 | 0,5 | - | - |
Siirt | 22.144 | 59,0 | 15.363 | 41,0 | - | - | - | - |
Sinop | 9.522 | 10,8 | 55.348 | 62,8 | 23.196 | 26,3 | - | - |
Sivas | 103.586 | 54,3 | 87.014 | 45,7 | - | - | - | - |
Tekirdağ | 53.660 | 58,9 | 36.916 | 40,5 | - | - | 490 | 0,5 |
Tokat | 81.822 | 55,6 | 65.241 | 44,4 | - | - | - | - |
Trabzon | 60.871 | 46,3 | 63.684 | 48,5 | 6.839 | 5,2 | - | - |
Tunceli | 13.089 | 58,7 | 9.209 | 41,3 | - | - | - | - |
Şanlıurfa | 55.959 | 51,9 | 51.924 | 48,1 | - | - | - | - |
Van | 16.785 | 35,1 | 20.653 | 43,2 | - | - | 10.374 | 21,7 |
Yozgat | 68.969 | 57,6 | 50.866 | 42,4 | - | - | - | - |
Zonguldak | 107.863 | 63,5 | 62.020 | 36,5 | - | - | - | - |
Aftermath
On 22 May Celal Bayar was elected president. On the same day, the first DP government headed by the Prime Minister Adnan Menderes was formed. Bayar stepped down as leader of the DP and was replaced by Menderes.
References
- ^ "MİLLETVEKİLİ GENEL SEÇİMLERİ 1923-2011" (PDF) (in Turkish). Turkish Statistical Institute. p. 5. Retrieved March 17, 2022.
- ISBN 0-19-924958-X
- ^ "14 Mayıs 1950 Milletvekili Genel Seçimi Sonuçları" (PDF) (in Turkish). YSK Web Portal. Retrieved 20 April 2024.