Thousand Hope Candidates
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Thousand Hope Candidates Bin Umut Adayları | |
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The Thousand Hope Candidates (
election threshold needed to win seats in the Turkish Grand National Assembly. The alliance's candidates won a total of 1,334,518 votes and 22 seats in the election.[1]
Lacking a realistic prospect of gaining parliamentary representation due to the 10% threshold, the pro-Kurdish
Freedom and Solidarity Party (ÖDP), the Labour Party (EMEP) and the Socialist Democracy Party (SDP) joined forces and decided to field candidates under a joint alliance, hence creating the Thousand Hope alliance.[2] The alliance stated that its candidates included individuals who could extend the appeal of the political left to the general public, having also extended support to other left-wing candidates who were not part of the four member parties.[3] The alliance fielded 65 candidates in 40 provinces.[4]
The Labour Party and the Freedom and Solidarity Party fielded their own candidates in the remaining 41 provinces but fell well short of the 10% electoral threshold.
The alliance was also in favour of minority rights, having openly campaigned as 'Kurds wanting peace'. Segments of society such as the LGBT community, which the alliance claimed had faced discrimination and oppression, played a major role in alliance's election campaign. Critics branded the alliance as Kurdish nationalist, pointing to the pro-Kurdish DTP, which was the biggest of the four participating parties.[5]
A similar alliance, namely the Labour, Democracy and Freedom Bloc, was formed in preparation for the 2011 general election four years later.
General election performance
Results
| Thousand Hope Candidates' performance in the 2007 general election | |||||||||
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| Participating parties | Votes | Seats | Map | ||||||
| Party | Leader | Candidates | Votes | Percentage | Swing | Elected | Seat ±
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| Democratic Society Party | Ahmet Türk | 65 | 1,334,518 | 3.81% |  2.42% |
22 / 550 |
 22 |
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Freedom and Solidarity Party |
Ufuk Uras | ||||||||
| Socialist Democracy Party | Akın Birdal | ||||||||
| Labour Party | Levent Tüzel
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- This table only shows the votes won by the Thousand Hope candidates, who stood in 40 provinces. In the remaining 41 provinces, the Freedom and Solidarity Party and the Labour Party fielded their own candidates. The votes that they won in these other provinces that were not part of the Thousand Hope candidate alliance are not shown.
- Swing and seat change is compared to the Democratic People's Party's performance in the 2002 general election
- Provinces won by Thousand Hope candidates are coloured purple in the map
Elected members
22 of a total of 65 candidates were elected. The combined votes won by Thousand Hope candidates were higher than any other party in the provinces of
3rd
electoral district respectively. The following table shows the distribution of DTP, SDP, EMEP and ÖDP members within the 22 elected members.
| Party | Leader | Elected | |
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| Democratic Society Party | Ahmet Türk | 20 / 22
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| Socialist Democracy Party | Akın Birdal | 1 / 22
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Freedom and Solidarity Party |
Ufuk Uras | 1 / 22
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| Labour Party | Levent Tüzel |
0 / 22
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| Thousand Hope total | 22 / 550
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The full list of members elected under the Thousand Hope banner are as follows:
Votes won by participating parties elsewhere
The
Freedom and Solidarity Party
both fielded candidates as a party in electoral districts where the Thousand Hope Candidates did not run for election. The votes shares won by these parties are as follows.
| Party | Votes | Seats | ||||
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| Votes | Percentage | Swing | Elected | Seat ±
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Freedom and Solidarity Party |
52,055 |
0.15% |
0.19% |
0 |
 0 | |
| Labour Party | 26,292 |
0.08% |
0.08% |
0 |
0 | |
See also
- 23rd Parliament of Turkey
- Electoral system of Turkey
- Peoples' Democratic Congress
- Peace and Democracy Party
- Kurdish nationalism
- Labour, Democracy and Freedom Bloc
References
- ^ "DTP, kalelerinde oy kaybına uğradı / Siyaset / Milliyet Gazete". Milliyet.com.tr. 2007-07-31. Retrieved 2015-08-29.
- ISBN 978-0-203-84706-0.
- ^ "Bin Umut Adayları". Archived from the original on June 18, 2015. Retrieved June 18, 2015.
- ^ "Seçime bağımsız girecek "Bin Umut Adayları" tanıtıldı –". Sendika.org. 2 June 2007. Retrieved 2015-08-29.
- ^ "DTPs Baptism of Fire - Güneş Murat Tezcür - english". Bianet.org. 2007-07-22. Retrieved 2015-08-29.
External links
- ÖDP official website
- SDP official website Archived 2011-08-10 at the Wayback Machine
- EMEP official website
- The DTP, having been dissolved in 2009 and replaced by the Peace and Democracy Party, no longer has an active website.
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