1927 Turkish general election

Turkish general election, 1927

20 July 1927
Total of 335 seats of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey 168 seats were needed for a majority
Turnout	20%
First party   Leader Mustafa Kemal Atatürk Party CHP Leader since 9 September 1923 Leader's seat Ankara Last election 333 Seats won 335 Seat change 2
Prime Minister before election İsmet İnönü CHP Elected Prime Minister İsmet İnönü CHP

General elections were held in Turkey in 1927. The Republican People's Party was the only party in the country at the time, as the Progressive Republican Party that had been set up in 1924 was dissolved the following year.

Electoral system

The elections were held under the Ottoman electoral law passed in 1908, which provided for a two-stage process. In the first stage, voters elected secondary electors (one for the first 750 voters in a constituency, then one for every additional 500 voters). In the second stage the secondary electors elected the members of the Chamber of Deputies.