1983 Turkish general election

none Turkey parliamentary 1977 Turkish general election 1977 1987 Turkish general election 1987 All 400 seats in the Grand National Assembly 201 6 November 1983 92.27% (19.85pp) 130x130px Turgut Özal 1986.jpg Turgut Özal Motherland Party (Turkey) 211 7,833,148 45.14% 3x4.svg Necdet Calp Populist Party (Turkey) 117 5,285,804 30.46% 3x4.svg Turgut Sunalp Nationalist Democracy Party (Turkey) 71 4,036,970 23.27% Prime Minister Bülent Ulusu Military Turgut Özal Motherland Party (Turkey) 1983 Türkiye Milletvekili Genel Seçimleri.png 375px Winning parties by city, electoral district and district General elections were held in Turkey on 6 November 1983, the first since 1977 after democratic rights were abandoned after the military coup of 1980.Barchard David 1984 General elections and local elections in Turkey https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/0261379484900386 Electoral Studies 3 2 206–210 10.1016/0261-3794(84)90038-6 0261-3794 subscription The National Security Council banned the previous political parties from participating, leading to the establishment of new parties.Turkey - Political Developments since the 1980 Coup Country Studies Turgut Özal's Motherland Party (ANAP) won a significant victory in this elections by gaining 45.14% of the votes. This victory was the starting point of a rapid change in the structure of the state and society in Turkey.http://www.ucnokta.com/modules.php?name=roportaj&op=printpage&artid=381 ucnokta.com 2007-07-24 https://web.archive.org/web/20071008003141/http://www.ucnokta.com/modules.php?name=roportaj 2007-10-08 dead Voter turnout was 92.3%.Dieter Nohlen, Florian Grotz & Christof Hartmann (2001) Elections in Asia: A data handbook, Volume I, p257 0-19-924958-X The Populist Party (HP) was the continuation of the former CHP and was the only left-wing participant in the election. The Nationalist Democracy Party was founded by the military junta of the time, whilst the Motherland Party was seen as the successor of the Justice Party (AP) by some circles but Süleyman Demirel, the leader of AP, who would later form the DYP to challenge the power of Turgut Özal's Motherland Party. With a first-ever televised debate on TRT, the elections brought a new factor into the political campaign. Necdet Calp was a long serving politician, Sunalp a high-ranking officer, and both had little to offer to confront Turgut Özal's rhetorical skills.National Elections in Turkey: People, Politics, and the Party System Wuthrich F. Michael 2015-07-28 Syracuse University Press 9780815634126 189 en Results Owing to a registration error in the town of Bingöl, ANAP were unable to take one of the seats they had won there, lowering the total number of MPs in the chamber to 399. File:Parliament of Turkey 1983.svg Motherland Party 7833148 211 New Populist Party 5285804 117 New Nationalist Democracy Party 4036970 71 New Independents 195588 0 0 886852 19767366 –51 Nohlen et al. References Turkey Turkey General Category:General elections in Turkey General