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1931 Turkish general election

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Field	Value
country	Turkey
type	parliamentary
previous_election	1927 Turkish general election
previous_year	1927
next_election	1935 Turkish general election
next_year	1935
seats_for_election	All 317 seats in the Grand National Assembly
majority_seats	159
election_date	25 April 1931
turnout	88%
image1	Ataturk1930s.jpg
leader1	Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
party1	Republican People's Party
last_election1	335
seats1	287
seat_change1	48
image2	3x4.svg
leader2	–
party2	Independents
last_election2	0 seats
seats2	30
seat_change2	30
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	1931_Türkiye_Milletvekili_Genel_Seçimleri.png

General elections were held in Turkey in 1931. The Republican People's Party was the only party in the country at the time, as the Liberal Republican Party that had been set up the previous year had already been dissolved.

Background

Candidates were nominated by the Council of the Presidency of the CHP. Unlike in previous elections, candidates were sought from across the country, with a total of 1,176 nominations for the 287 candidates.

Electoral system

The elections were held under the Ottoman electoral law passed in 1908,

Although the country was a one-party state at the time, thirty seats were set aside for independents. Independent candidates were required to be "republican, nationalist and sincere."

References

Myron E. Weiner, Ergun Özbudun (1987) ''Competitive Elections in Developing Countries'', Duke University Press, p337
Voter turnout was reported to be 88%.Weiner & Özbudun, p340

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