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1927 Turkish general election

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Field	Value
country	Turkey
type	parliamentary
previous_election	1923 Turkish general election
previous_year	1923
next_election	1931 Turkish general election
next_year	1931
seats_for_election	All 335 seats on the Grand National Assembly
majority_seats	168
election_date	20 July 1927
turnout	20%
image1	Mustafa Kemal Ataturk.png
leader1	Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
party1	Republican People's Party
last_election1	332
seats1	335
seat_change1	3
title	Prime Minister
before_election	İsmet İnönü
before_party	Republican People's Party
after_election	İsmet İnönü
after_party	Republican People's Party
map_image	1927 Türkiye Milletvekili Genel Seçimleri.png

General elections were held in Turkey in 1927. 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,

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.Weiner & Özbudun, p334

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