General election in Turkey November 2015
The early election for the 26th Grand National Assembly of Turkey took place on November 1, 2015. The 550 members of the national parliament were elected . The AKP (“ Party for Justice and Recovery ”), which has had a minority government since the last election in June of that year, gained significantly more votes and gained an absolute majority of the parliamentary seats. The Kemalist- social democratic CHP ( Republican People's Party ) became the second strongest force, the right-wing extremist MHP ( Party of the Nationalist Movement ) and the HDP ( Democratic Party of the Peoples ) lost voters.
Representatives of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) and the Council of Europe criticized the violence before the vote, accused the state broadcaster TRT of partisan reporting and classified the election campaign in Turkey as unfair. The high voter turnout of 88.2% was praised.
Background and immediate history
According to Article 77 of the Turkish Constitution, the regular election should not have taken place until June 2019. An early election had become necessary because the ruling AKP lost its absolute majority in the previous election in June 2015 and could not find a coalition partner within the prescribed 45-day period. President Erdoğan therefore dissolved parliament prematurely on August 21, 2015 and called a new election.
The formation of a government after the June elections was judged by political observers to be difficult, as the four parties represented in parliament (AKP, CHP, MHP and HDP) are either enemies or ideologically too contradicting each other for a stable coalition to be formed. Many commentators also expressed the view that President Erdoğan deliberately let the negotiations fail in order to bring about a new election. Erdoğan continues to pursue the political goal of transforming Turkey into a presidential democracy . This requires a constitutional amendment that requires a two-thirds majority in the National Assembly (Article 175 of the Constitution). Such a majority for the AKP would only have been possible if the HDP had failed to meet the 10% threshold , which it surprisingly skipped in the June election, in the November 1st election.
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A bomb attack on a peace demonstration in Ankara on October 10, 2015 - with more than 100 fatalities among protesters critical of the government, the worst attack in the country's history - overshadowed the last three weeks of the election campaign. In the run-up to the election, the Davutoğlu government had the government-critical Koza-İpek-Holding , which is close to the Gulen movement , searched on the grounds that it was being investigated on suspicion of supporting a terrorist organization and propaganda. The group operates in the media, mining and energy sectors. In October, the group was placed under forced administration, the corporate headquarters and the editorial offices of Bugün and Millet as well as the control rooms of the associated television stations Bugün TV and Kanaltürk were forcibly occupied by police units. The broadcasting of the TV stations was stopped, the front pages of the newspapers appeared in protest on a black background in white letters and the headline "A black day".
Participating parties
Selahattin Demirtaş (above) and Figen Yüksekdağ (below)
In the parliamentary elections in June 20 parties ran; on November 1st there were 16:
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listed in the same order as on the ballot paper
Number of representatives by constituency
The number of mandates for a province depends on its population. There are three provinces divided into several constituencies: Istanbul (3), Izmir (2), and Ankara (2). The individual numbers are:
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Result
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Overall result
| Political party | Abbreviation | be right | Seats | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| number | % | +/- | number | +/- | |||
| Justice and Recovery Party | ACP | 23,681,926 | 49.50 | +8.63 | 317 | +59 | |
| Republican People's Party | CHP | 12,111,812 | 25.32 | +0.37 | 134 | +2 | |
| Nationalist Movement Party | MHP | 5,694,136 | 11.90 | −4.39 | 40 | −40 | |
| Democratic Party of the Peoples | HDP | 5,148,085 | 10.76 | −2.36 | 59 | −21 | |
| Party of bliss | SP | 325,978 | 0.68 | −1.38 | 0 | ± 0 | |
| Great unity party | BBP | 253.204 | 0.53 | New | 0 | New | |
| Fatherland Party | - | 118,803 | 0.25 | −0.10 | 0 | ± 0 | |
| Party for Law and Freedoms | HAK-PAR | 108,583 | 0.23 | +0.10 | 0 | ± 0 | |
| People's Liberation Party | HKP | 83.057 | 0.17 | +0.04 | 0 | ± 0 | |
| Democratic Party | DP | 69,319 | 0.14 | −0.02 | 0 | ± 0 | |
| Communist Party | KP | 52,527 | 0.11 | +0.08 | 0 | ± 0 | |
| Independent | - | 51,038 | 0.11 | −0.95 | 0 | ± 0 | |
| Independent Turkey Party | BTP | 49.297 | 0.10 | −0.11 | 0 | ± 0 | |
| Democratic Left Party | DSP | 31,805 | 0.07 | −0.12 | 0 | ± 0 | |
| Liberal Democratic Party | LDP | 26,816 | 0.06 | ± 0.00 | 0 | ± 0 | |
| People's Party | MP | 19,714 | 0.04 | ± 0.00 | 0 | ± 0 | |
| Right Path Party | DYP | 14,131 | 0.03 | −0.03 | 0 | ± 0 | |
| total | 47.840.231 | 100.00 | ± 0 | 550 | ± 0 | ||
| Valid votes | 47.840.231 | 98.56 | +1.47 | ||||
| Invalid votes | 697,464 | 1.44 | −1.47 | ||||
| voter turnout | 48,537,695 | 85.18 | +1.26 | ||||
| Non-voters | 8,411,314 | 14.77 | −1.31 | ||||
| Registered voters | 56,965,099 | ||||||
| Source: Official final result | |||||||
foreign countries
After the 2014 presidential election in Turkey and the parliamentary election in Turkey in June 2015 , it was the third election in which Turkish citizens abroad could participate.
| Voters from Germany | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Political party | percent | |||
| Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi | 59.7% | |||
| Halkların Democracy Partisi | 15.9% | |||
| Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi | 14.8% | |||
| Milliyetçi Hareket Partisi | 7.5% | |||
| Otherwise. | 2.1% | |||
| Eligible voters: 1,411,198; Voters: 575,564 | ||||
See also
Web links
- Reception / analysis
- Frank Nordhausen : The debacle of the Turkish pollsters In: Berliner Zeitung (BLZ) . Nov 10, 2015
- Günter Seufert : Erdoğan's reward for fear In: Le Monde diplomatique (LMd) . Nov 12, 2015
Individual evidence
- ↑ Observers rate the Turkey election campaign as unfair. Too much violence. Reuters , accessed November 2, 2015 .
- ^ Erdoğan: New elections in Turkey on November 1st
- ↑ official announcement on the homepage of the presidential office www.tccb.gov.tr
- ↑ zeit.de October 28, 2015: Turkish police storm media company with chainsaws
- ↑ Today's Zaman: Bugün, Millet newspapers come out with black front pages to protest media crackdown ( Memento of the original from October 31, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Announcement , High Electoral Committee , September 13, 2015 (Turkish)
- ^ Communication from the High Electoral Committee
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