Parliamentary election in Turkey 1995

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Result (in%)
 %
30th
20th
10
0
21.4
19.7
19.2
14.6
10.7
8.2
4.2
2.0
Otherwise.
Gains and losses
compared to 1991
 % p
 10
   8th
   6th
   4th
   2
   0
  -2
  -4
  -6
  -8th
+4.5
−4.3
−7.8
+3.8
−6.1
+8.2
+0.2
+1.4
Otherwise.
Template: election chart / maintenance / notes
Remarks:
g 1991: Result of the SHP in Kurdish areas
Distribution of seats
     
A total of 550 seats

The election for the 20th Grand National Assembly of Turkey took place on Sunday, December 24, 1995. After a change in the law, there were a total of 550 seats in the national parliament .

The ruling party and the Republican People's Party (CHP), with whose predecessor party ( Social Democratic Populist Party , SHP) a coalition was formed, suffered a major electoral defeat, together they lost 82 seats at the expense of the religiously oriented Welfare Party , which was the mayor in the last election from important cities like Istanbul. This is the first time that a radical religious party has won a parliamentary election.

Participating parties

12 different parties stood for election:

logo Political party Alignment Top candidate
Refah Partisi.png Welfare Party (RP) Islamist Necmettin Erbakan
Motherland Party (ANAP) liberal - conservative Mesut Yılmaz
Doğru Yol Partisi Logo.gif Right Path Party (DYP) conservative Tansu Çiller
Democracy Sol Parti Logo.svg Democratic Left Party (DSP) social democratic Bülent Ecevit
Flag of the Republican People's Party (Turkey) .svg Republican People's Party (CHP) Kemalist , social democratic Deniz Baykal
Flag of the Nationalist Movement Party.svg Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) right-wing extremist Alparslan Turkis
People's Democracy Party (HADEP) Minority policy Murat Bozlak
New Democratic Movement (YDH) Cem Boyner
People's Party (MP) nationalist Aykut Edibali
Party of Rebirth (YDP) Hasan Celal Güzel
İşçi Partisi.jpg Workers' Party (IP) socialist Dogu Perinçek
New Party (YP) Yusuf Bozkurt Özal

Election result

Winners by provinces
County winners
Result of the parliamentary elections in Turkey in 1995
Political party be right Seats
number % +/- number +/-
Welfare Party (RP) 6,012,450 21.38 +4.50 158 +96
Motherland Party (ANAP) 5,527,288 19.65 −4.36 132 +17
Right Path Party (DYP) 5,396,000 19.18 −7.85 135 −43
Democratic Left Party (DSP) 4,118,025 14.64 +3.89 76 +69
Republican People's Party (CHP) 3,011,076 10.71 −10.04 49 −39
Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) 2,301,343 8.18 New 0 New
People's Democracy Party (HADEP) 1,171,623 4.17 New 0 New
Independent 133,895 0.48 +0.35 0 ± 0
New Democratic Movement (YDH) 133,889 0.48 New 0 New
People's Party (MP) 127,630 0.45 New 0 New
Party of Rebirth (YDP) 95,484 0.34 New 0 New
Workers' Party (IP) 61,428 0.22 New 0 New
New Party (YP) 36,853 0.13 New 0 New
total 28.126.993 100.00 550 +100
Valid votes 28.126.993 96.65 −0.41
Invalid votes 974.476 3.35 +0.41
voter turnout 29.101.469 85.20 +1.28
Non-voters 5,054,512 14.80 −1.28
Registered voters 34.155.981
Source: Turkish Statistical Institute (TÜİK)

Government formation

President Suleyman Demirel initially commissioned the election winner, Necmettin Erbakan from the Islamist RP, to form a government. However, since no other party was ready to form a coalition with her at the time, the order had to be returned. The second-placed party of the Right Way (DYP) of the previous Prime Minister Tansu Çiller and the third-placed Motherland Party (ANAP) also failed to form a government. Only after a visit by the highest troop commander and the chief of staff to parliament, DYP and ANAP agreed three months after the election on the formation of a minority coalition, formed by the Democratic Left Party (DSP) and the Great Unity Party (BBP), which became seven after the election MPs elected to the ANAP had defected was tolerated. According to the coalition agreement, on March 7, 1996, the ANAP chairman Mesut Yılmaz was first elected Prime Minister, after two years Çiller was supposed to take over the leadership again.

But already at the end of May 1996 - after a dispute over her alleged involvement in irregularities during the privatization sales of her previous government - the coalition terminated. In order to forestall a vote of no confidence requested by the RP, Yılmaz resigned on June 6th. Subsequently, the President again entrusted the chairman of the strongest parliamentary group - Erbakan - with forming a government, who this time managed to form a coalition with the DYP. On June 28, a government made up of RP and DYP with Erbakan as Prime Minister and Çiller as Deputy Minister and Foreign Minister was appointed, which had its own majority in parliament. However, the Islamist-led government was not accepted by the military leadership, which led to the February 28, 1997 trial, or “postmodern coup”.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ HADEP's predecessor party, the Halkın Emek Partisi , formed an electoral alliance with the SHP for the 1991 parliamentary election.
  2. ↑ Results of parliamentary elections 1923-2011 Turkish Statistical Institute (TÜİK) , PDF file (Turkish)
  3. ↑ Erhard Franz: Turkey 1996. In: Middle East Yearbook 1996. Leske + Budrich, Opladen 1997, pp. 158–159.