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1939 Turkish general election

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Field	Value
election_name	1939 Turkish general election
country	Turkey
type	parliamentary
ongoing	no
previous_election	1935 Turkish general election
previous_year	1935
next_election	1943 Turkish general election
next_year	1943
seats_for_election	All 429 seats in the Grand National Assembly
majority_seats	215
election_date	26 March 1939
image1	Inonu Ismet (cropped).jpg
leader1	İsmet İnönü
party1	Republican People's Party
title	Prime Minister
before_election	Refik Saydam
before_party	Republican People's Party
after_election	Refik Saydam
after_party	Republican People's Party
map_image	1939_Türkiye_Milletvekili_Genel_Seçimleri.png
turnout	77.8%

General elections were held in Turkey on 26 March 1939. The Republican People's Party was the only party in the country at the time. Voter turnout was reported to be 77.8%.

Electoral system

The elections were held under the Ottoman electoral law passed in 1908, A total of 429 members were elected.

References

Myron E. Weiner, Ergun Özbudun (1987) ''Competitive Elections in Developing Countries'', Duke University Press, p337
Weiner & Özbudun, p340
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
"Mi̇lletveki̇li̇ Genel Seçi̇mleri̇ 1923 - 2011".

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