Turkish general election, 1931

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25 April 1931

1935 →

Total of 317 seats of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey
159 seats were needed for a majority

Turnout

88%

	First party	Second party

Leader	Mustafa Kemal Atatürk	Independents
Party	CHP	Independent
Leader since	9 September 1923
Leader's seat	Ankara
Last election	335	0 seats
Seats won	287	30
Seat change	48	30

Prime Minister before election

İsmet İnönü
CHP

Elected Prime Minister

İsmet İnönü
CHP

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. Voter turnout was reported to be 88%.

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

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.

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."

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