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1923 Turkish general election

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Field	Value
country	Turkey
type	parliamentary
previous_election	1920 Turkish Grand National Assembly election
previous_year	1920
next_election	1927 Turkish general election
next_year	1927
seats_for_election	All 333 seats in the Grand National Assembly
majority_seats	167
election_date	28 June 1923
image1	Müşir Gazi Mustafa Kemal Paşa, Balıkesir, 1923.png
leader1	Mustafa Kemal Pasha
colour1	D70000
party1	ARMHC
seats1	285
title	Prime Minister
before_election	Rauf Orbay
before_party	ARMHC
after_election	Rauf Orbay
after_party	ARMHC

General elections were held in Turkey in 1923. 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,

References

Myron E. Weiner, Ergun Özbudun (1987) ''Competitive Elections in Developing Countries'', Duke University Press, p337
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

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