2018 Turkish general election
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This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below. |
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General elections were held in
The elections had originally been scheduled for 3 November 2019, until the Erdoğan government called for early elections on 18 April 2018.
Background
2017 constitutional referendum
The ruling
The proposed constitutional changes would see parliamentary and presidential elections taking place on the same day every five years, with the initial vote being set for 3 November 2019. The number of seats in the Grand National Assembly was to be increased from 550 to 600, although the legislative powers of Parliament would be greatly reduced. Crucially, the office of the President of Turkey would be given powers to rule by decree, becoming both the country's head of state and head of government.[3] Supporters of the changes claimed that the new system would make the system of government more efficient, while critics claimed that it would place too much power in the hands of the president and effectively render parliament powerless.[4][5]
The constitutional changes were approved by a 51-49% margin, according to official results. However, a last-minute change in the election rules by the
Early election
Despite over two years to go before the next presidential and parliamentary elections, many observers alleged that the government was preparing for an early vote soon after the 2017 referendum.
On 17 April 2018, Devlet Bahçeli, the leader of the Nationalist Movement Party, called for early elections for the 26th of August.[15] Bahçeli had previously announced that they would support a re-election bid of the incumbent president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.[16] The Justice and Development Party (AK Party), led by Erdoğan, had recently announced an electoral alliance with the MHP called the People's Alliance.[17] Following his call for early elections, Bahçeli met Erdoğan a day later on 18 April. Erdoğan subsequently announced that his party agreed with Bahçeli that an early election was needed to solve the ongoing 'political and economic uncertainty'. He therefore announced that early elections would take place on 24 June 2018.[18]
Presidential election
Candidates
Official list of presidential candidates in order of appearance on the ballot paper[19] | |||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 |
Muharrem İnce | Meral Akşener | Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (incumbent) | Selahattin Demirtaş | Temel Karamollaoğlu | Doğu Perinçek |
CHP (Nation Alliance) |
İYİ (Nation Alliance) |
AK Party (People's Alliance) |
HDP (No alliance) |
Felicity (Nation Alliance) |
Patriotic (No alliance) |
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Results
Candidate | Party | Votes | % | |
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Recep Tayyip Erdoğan | Justice and Development Party | 26,330,823 | 52.59 | |
Muharrem İnce | Republican People's Party | 15,340,321 | 30.64 | |
Selahattin Demirtaş | Peoples' Democratic Party | 4,205,794 | 8.40 | |
Meral Akşener | Good Party | 3,649,030 | 7.29 | |
Temel Karamollaoğlu | Felicity Party | 443,704 | 0.89 | |
Doğu Perinçek | Patriotic Party | 98,955 | 0.20 | |
Total | 50,068,627 | 100.00 | ||
Valid votes | 50,068,627 | 97.79 | ||
Invalid/blank votes | 1,129,332 | 2.21 | ||
Total votes | 51,197,959 | 100.00 | ||
Registered voters/turnout | 59,367,469 | 86.24 | ||
Source: YSK |
Parliamentary election
Parties contesting the election
Ballot # | Coalition | Party | Ideology | Leader | |||
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1 | People's Alliance | AK Parti | Justice and Development Party Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi |
Conservatism | Recep Tayyip Erdoğan | ||
2 | MHP | Nationalist Movement Party Milliyetçi Hareket Partisi |
Ultranationalism | Devlet Bahçeli | |||
3 | None | HÜDAPAR | Free Cause Party Hür Dava Partisi |
Pan-Islamism | Mehmet Yavuz | ||
4 | VP | Patriotic Party Vatan Partisi |
Scientific socialism | Doğu Perinçek | |||
5 | HDP | Peoples' Democratic Party Halkların Demokratik Partisi |
Kurdish minority rights | Pervin Buldan Sezai Temelli | |||
6 | Nation Alliance | CHP | Republican People's Party Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi |
Kemalism | Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu | ||
7 | SP | Felicity Party Saadet Partisi |
Millî Görüş | Temel Karamollaoğlu | |||
8 | İYİ Parti | Good Party İyi Parti |
Liberal conservatism | Meral Akşener |
Results
Party or alliance | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | |||
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People's Alliance | Justice and Development Party | 21,338,693 | 42.56 | 295 | –22 | ||
Nationalist Movement Party | 5,565,331 | 11.10 | 49 | +9 | |||
Total | 26,904,024 | 53.66 | 344 | –13 | |||
Nation Alliance | Republican People's Party | 11,354,190 | 22.65 | 146 | +12 | ||
Good Party | 4,993,479 | 9.96 | 43 | New | |||
Felicity Party | 672,139 | 1.34 | 0 | 0 | |||
Total | 17,019,808 | 33.95 | 189 | +55 | |||
People's Democratic Party | 5,867,302 | 11.70 | 67 | +8 | |||
Free Cause Party | 155,539 | 0.31 | 0 | New | |||
Patriotic Party | 114,872 | 0.23 | 0 | 0 | |||
Independents | 75,630 | 0.15 | 0 | 0 | |||
Total | 50,137,175 | 100.00 | 600 | +50 | |||
Valid votes | 50,137,175 | 97.94 | |||||
Invalid/blank votes | 1,052,269 | 2.06 | |||||
Total votes | 51,189,444 | 100.00 | |||||
Registered voters/turnout | 59,367,469 | 86.22 | |||||
Source: YSK |
295 | 49 | 146 | 43 | 67 |
AK Party | MHP | CHP | İYİ | HDP |
Controversies
The election process was overshadowed many multiple allegations of violations of its integrity. Prominent among them was the allegation of widespread ballot stuffing for the benefit of AK Party and MHP parties in Turkey's east, in particular in Şanlıurfa province.[20]
See also
- 2018 Turkish parliamentary election
- 2018 Turkish presidential election
- Turkish currency and debt crisis, 2018
- Opinion polling for the Turkish general election, 2018
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- ^ "Devlet Bahçeli neden 26 Ağustos tarihini seçti?". Retrieved 24 June 2018.
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External links
Media related to Turkish general election, 2018 at Wikimedia Commons
- Marc Pierini (5 June 2018). "Three Scenarios for Turkey's Elections". Carnegie Europe.