1927 Turkish general election

none Turkey parliamentary 1923 Turkish general election 1923 1931 Turkish general election 1931 All 335 seats on the Grand National Assembly 168 20 July 1927 20% Mustafa Kemal Ataturk.png Mustafa Kemal Pasha Republican People's Party 332 335 3 Prime Minister İsmet İnönü Republican People's Party İsmet İnönü Republican People's Party 1927 Türkiye Milletvekili Genel Seçimleri.png General elections were held in Turkey in 1927.Myron E. Weiner, Ergun Özbudun (1987) Competitive Elections in Developing Countries, Duke University Press, p337 The Republican People's Party ("Association for the Defense of the Rights of Anatolia and Rumelia" until 9 September 1923) 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 Turkish Grand National Assembly.Weiner & Özbudun, p334 References expanded 1927 Category:1927 elections in Turkey Category:One-party elections Category:Election and referendum articles with incomplete results Category:July 1927 in Europe Category:July 1927 in Asia