Turkish general election, 1961

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Turkish general election, 1961
Turkey
1957 ←
15 October 1961 → 1965

Total of 450 seats of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey
226 seats were needed for a majority
  First party Second party Third party
  Inonu Ismet.jpg No image.png Osman Bölükbaşı (cropped).jpg
Leader İsmet İnönü Ragıp Gümüşpala Osman Bölükbaşı
Party CHP AP CKMP
Leader since 10 November 1938 11 February 1961 16 October 1958
Leader's seat Malatya İzmir Ankara
Last election 178 seats, 41.1% New party New party
Seats won 173 158 54
Seat change Decrease5 Increase158 Increase54
Popular vote 3,724,752 3,527,435 1,415,390
Percentage 36.7% 34.8% 14.0%
Swing Decrease4.4% Increase34.8% Increase14.0%

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Legislative election results map. Red denotes provinces with a Republican People's Party plurality, Purple denotes those with a Justice Party plurality, Orange denotes those with a Republican Peasants' Nationalist Party plurality. Blue denotes those with an New Turkey Party

Prime Minister before election

Adnan Menderes
Democrat

Elected Prime Minister

İsmet İnönü
CHP

General elections were held in Turkey on 15 October 1961. The result was a victory for the Republican People's Party, which won 173 of the 450 seats.[1] Voter turnout was 81.4%.

Results[edit]

Party Votes % Seats +/-
Republican People's Party 3,724,752 36.7 173 -5
Justice Party 3,527,435 34.8 158 New
Republican Peasants' Nationalist Party 1,415,390 14.0 54 New
New Turkey Party 1,391,934 13.7 65 New
Independents 81,372 0.8 0 -2
Invalid/blank votes 384,681 - - -
Total 10,522,716 100 450 -152
Source: Nohlen et al.

References[edit]

  1. ^ Nohlen, D, Grotz, F & Hartmann, C (2001) Elections in Asia: A data handbook, Volume I, p272 ISBN 0-19-924958-X