1931 Turkish general election

none Turkey parliamentary 1927 Turkish general election 1927 1935 Turkish general election 1935 All 317 seats in the Grand National Assembly 159 25 April 1931 88% Ataturk1930s.jpg Mustafa Kemal Pasha Republican People's Party 335 287 48 3x4.svg – Independents 0 seats 30 30 Prime Minister İsmet İnönü Republican People's Party İsmet İnönü Republican People's Party 1931_Türkiye_Milletvekili_Genel_Seçimleri.png General elections were held in Turkey in 1931.Myron E. Weiner, Ergun Özbudun (1987) Competitive Elections in Developing Countries, Duke University Press, p337 The Republican People's Party was the only party in the country at the time, as the Liberal Republican Party that had been set up the previous year had already been dissolved. Voter turnout was reported to be 88%.Weiner & Özbudun, p340 Background Candidates were nominated by the Council of the Presidency of the CHP. Unlike in previous elections, candidates were sought from across the country, with a total of 1,176 nominations for the 287 candidates. 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 Turkish Grand National Assembly.Weiner & Özbudun, p334 Although the country was a one-party state at the time, thirty seats were set aside for independents. Independent candidates were required to be "republican, nationalist and sincere." References expanded 1931 Category:1931 elections in Turkey Category:One-party elections Category:Election and referendum articles with incomplete results Category:April 1931 in Turkey