1923 Turkish general election

none Turkey parliamentary 1920 Turkish Grand National Assembly election 1920 1927 Turkish general election 1927 All 333 seats in the Grand National Assembly 167 28 June 1923 Müşir Gazi Mustafa Kemal Paşa, Balıkesir, 1923.png Mustafa Kemal Pasha D70000 ARMHC 285 Prime Minister Rauf Orbay ARMHC Rauf Orbay ARMHC General elections were held in Turkey in 1923.Myron E. Weiner, Ergun Özbudun (1987) Competitive Elections in Developing Countries, Duke University Press, p337 The Association for Defence of National Rights (later 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. However, a second law was passed on 3 April 1923 lowering the voting age to 18 and abolishing the tax-paying requirement.Weiner & Özbudun, p334 References expanded Category:General elections in Turkey General Category:One-party elections Category:Election and referendum articles with incomplete results Category:June 1923 in Europe Category:June 1923 in Asia