1935 Turkish general election

none Turkey parliamentary 1931 Turkish general election 1931 1939 Turkish general election 1939 All 399 seats in the Grand National Assembly 200 8 February 1935 Prime Minister İsmet İnönü Republican People's Party İsmet İnönü Republican People's Party 1935 Türkiye Milletvekili Genel Seçimleri.png General elections were held in Turkey on 8 February 1935.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. 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 Following a change in the law in 1934, women were granted the right to vote and run for election, and the age of voting was raised from 18 to 22. Results Seventeen of the 399 elected members were women,https://www.tuik.gov.tr/IcerikGetir.do?istab_id=152 Mi̇lletveki̇li̇ Genel Seçi̇mleri̇ 1923 - 2011 Turkish Statistical Institute 10, 23 https://web.archive.org/web/20150614211322/https://www.tuik.gov.tr/IcerikGetir.do?istab_id=152 2015-06-14 with Bahire Bediş Morova Aydilek, Mihri Bektaş, Hatı Çırpan, Nakiye Elgün, Sabiha Gökçül Erbay, Mebrure Gönenç, Hatice Sabiha Görkey, Ferruh Güpgüp, Seniha Nafız Hızal, Ayşe Şekibe İnsel, Benal Nevzat İstar Arıman, Fatma Şakir Memik, Fatma Esma Nayman, Huriye Baha Öniz, Türkan Örs Baştuğ, Fakihe Öymen and Meliha Ulaş becoming the first women to hold seats in parliament.We Remember: First 17 women elected to Turkish Parliament, 8 February 1935 T-Vine, 8 February 2020 See also Women in Turkish politics References expanded General Category:General elections in Turkey Category:One-party elections Category:Election and referendum articles with incomplete results Category:February 1935 in Turkey