1999 Turkish general election

none Turkey parliamentary 1995 Turkish general election 1995 2002 Turkish general election 2002 All 550 seats in the Grand National Assembly 276 18 April 1999 87.09% (1.89pp) 130x130px Bülent Ecevit-Davos 2000 cropped.jpg Bülent Ecevit Democratic Left Party (Turkey) 14.64%, 76 seats 136 60 6,919,670 22.19% 7.55pp Devlet Bahçeli VOA 2015 (cropped).jpg Devlet Bahçeli Nationalist Movement Party 8.18%, 0 seats 129 129 5,606,583 17.98% 9.80pp Recai Kutan 2009 crop.jpg Recai Kutan Virtue Party 21.38%, 158 seatsn As the Welfare Party; following the Welfare Party's ban by the Constitutional Court, its members founded the Virtue Party. 111 47 4,805,381 15.41% 5.97pp Mesut Yilmaz as Turkish Prime Minister.jpg Mesut Yılmaz Motherland Party (Turkey) 19.65%, 132 seats 86 46 4,122,929 13.22% 6.43pp Turkish prime minister Tansu Çiller in Brussels.jpg Tansu Çiller True Path Party 19.18%, 135 seats 85 50 3,745,417 12.01% 7.17pp 1999 Turkish General Election by Province.svg Results by province Prime Minister Bülent Ecevit DSP Bülent Ecevit DSP General elections were held in Turkey on Sunday, 18 April 1999. For the first time, local, council and parliamentary elections were held on the same day. Bülent Ecevit's Democratic Left Party (DSP), which had been soaring in popularity after the capture of Kurdistan Worker's Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Öcalan,Şafak Yeni 2023-07-03 Türkiye uçurumda: 1999 genel seçimi https://www.yenisafak.com/secim-1999 2023-03-07 Yeni Şafak tr-TR emerged as the biggest party and swept the board in most of Turkey's western provinces. It failed, however, to obtain an overall majority, and did not do nearly as well in the eastern provinces. The second largest party (dubbed "the second winner" by the press the following day) became the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), which performed strongly nationwide, producing MPs from nearly all of the country's 81 provinces. The largest party of the last election, the Virtue Party (FP), returned to opposition after shedding forty-seven seats and a million votes. The decline of the Republican People's Party continued; this was the first and the only time in the history of the republic when the party failed to cross the 10 percent threshold for parliamentary representation. This was the last election which produced a hung parliament until the June 2015 general election. Background During the 1997 Turkish military memorandum, in case the Welfare Party were to be banned, the Virtue Party was founded in December 1997. The Welfare Party was subsequently banned in January 1998.2023-02-20 Haritalarla Seçimler: 1999 Genel Seçimleri https://turkiyeraporu.com/arastirma/haritalarla-secimler-1999-genel-secimleri-13027/ 2023-02-28 Türkiye Raporu tr Results File:Parliament of Turkey 1999.svg Democratic Left Party 6919670 136 +60 Nationalist Movement Party 5606583 129 +129 Virtue Party 4805381 111 –47 Motherland Party 4122929 86 –46 True Path Party 3745417 85 –50 Republican People's Party 2716094 0 –49 People's Democracy Party 1482196 0 0 Great Unity Party 456353 0 New Freedom and Solidarity Party 248553 0 New Democrat Turkey Party 179871 0 New Liberal Democratic Party 127174 0 New Democratic Party 92093 0 New Nation Party 79370 0 0 Peace Party 78922 0 New Workers' Party 57607 0 0 Labour Party 51756 0 New Rebirth Party 44787 0 0 #008DD2 Socialist Power Party 37680 0 New #ff2a00 Changing Turkey Party 37175 0 New #022e6b Democracy and Peace Party 24620 0 New #008000 Independents 270265 3 +3 0 1471574 37495217 BBC Turkish Service SEÇİM 2002 https://www.bbc.co.uk/turkish/180499.shtml BBC News Aftermath Bülent Ecevit formed the country's latest coalition government, against the FP, with the second-placed MHP and the fourth-placed Motherland Party (ANAP) as a junior partner. The DYP was consulted during coalition negotiations, but ended up in opposition. The DSP–MHP–ANAP coalition turned out to be one of the most stable in many years, surviving without change until Ecevit's hospitalisation and subsequent refusal to resign in 2002 prompted a wave of resignations from the DSP and early general elections. Five parties in the parliament (DSP, MHP, FP, ANAP and DYP) all failed to gain seats in 2002 elections. Notes References Category:General elections in Turkey Turkish general election Turkish general election General General election