Turkish general election, 2011

Turkish general election, 2011

2007 ← June 12, 2011 (2011-06-12) → Jun 2015

outgoing members ← → elected members

All 550 seats of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey 276 seats needed for a majority Opinion polls Turnout 83.16% ( 1.09 pp)   First party Second party Third party   Leader Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu Devlet Bahçeli Party AK Party CHP MHP Leader since 14 August 2001 22 May 2010 6 July 1997 Leader's seat İstanbul (I) İstanbul (II) Osmaniye Last election 341 seats, 46.58% 112 seats, 20.88% 71 seats, 14.27% Seats before 331 102 72 Seats won 327 135 53 Seat change 4 33 19 Popular vote 21,399,082 11,155,972 5,585,513 Percentage 49.83% 25.98% 13.01% Swing 3.25 pp 5.10 pp 1.26 pp

Winners according to provinces (top) and districts (bottom):      AKP        CHP        MHP        Independent Labour, Democracy and Freedom Bloc The Labour, Democracy and Freedom Bloc contested the election as independents to bypass the 10% election threshold. Provinces & districts where the total votes for all independents combined topped the poll are shown in yellow, even though these candidates may have won less votes than other parties individually.

Prime Minister before election Recep Tayyip Erdoğan AK Party Elected Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan AK Party

The Labour, Democracy and Freedom Bloc contested the election as independents to bypass the 10% election threshold. Provinces & districts where the total votes for all independents combined topped the poll are shown in yellow, even though these candidates may have won less votes than other parties individually.

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
AK Party

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
AK Party

Turkey's 17th general election was held on 12 June 2011 to elect 550 new members of Grand National Assembly. In accordance to the result of the constitutional referendum held in 2007, the election was held four years after the previous one instead of five.

The result was a third consecutive victory for the incumbent Justice and Development Party (AKP), with its leader Recep Tayyip Erdoğan being re-elected as Prime Minister for a third term with 49.8% of the vote and 327 MPs. This represented an increase of 3.2% since the 2007 general election and an 11.4% rise since the 2009 local elections. The victory was attributed to the strong sustained economic recovery after the 2008 global financial crisis as well as the completion of several projects such as the İzmir commuter railway, inter-city high speed rail lines and airports in Amasya, Gökçeada and Gazipaşa (Antalya).

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