Next Turkish parliamentary election

Next Turkish parliamentary election

← 2018 On or before 18 June 2023
← outgoing members
All 600 seats of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey 301 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
First party Second party Third party   Leader Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu Pervin Buldan Party AKP CHP HDP Alliance People's Alliance Nation Alliance [[None[a]|None[a]]] Leader since 7 July 2018 22 May 2010 11 February 2018 Leader's seat None İzmir (II) İstanbul (III) Last election 295 seats, 42.56% 146 seats, 22.65% 67 seats, 11.70% Seats before 291 139 61   Fourth party Fifth party   Leader Devlet Bahçeli Meral Akşener Party MHP İYİ Party Alliance People's Alliance Nation Alliance Leader since 6 July 1997 25 October 2017 Leader's seat Osmaniye None Last election 49 seats, 11.10% 43 seats, 9.96% Seats before 49 37
Speaker before election Mustafa Şentop Justice and Development Party Elected Speaker TBD

The next Turkish parliamentary election is scheduled to occur on or before 18 June 2023,^[1] alongside a presidential election on the same day. Voters from 87 electoral districts will elect 600 Members of Parliament to the Grand National Assembly of Turkey for a five year term, forming the country's 28th Parliament.

Electoral system[]

The 600 members of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey will be elected by party-list proportional representation in 87 electoral districts, by the D'Hondt method. For the purpose of legislative elections, 77 of Turkey's 81 provinces serves as a single district. Due to their large populations, the provinces of Bursa and İzmir are divided into two districts, while the provinces of Ankara and İstanbul are each divided into three.

Since the introduction of Turkey's Constitution of 1982, political parties are required to pass an electoral threshold of 10% of the nationwide popular vote in order to obtain seats in parliament, with all those falling below the threshold disregarded for seat distribution purposes. Furthermore, parties must be officially organised in at least half of provinces (41 or more) and in at least a third of districts in those provinces, and must nominate two candidates in 41 or more provinces, in order to be entitled to seats.

Electoral threshold[]

Parties are subject to a 10% threshold, which does not apply for independent candidates.^[2] Parties can opt to contest the election in an alliance with other parties, removing the 10% requirement as long as the alliance as a whole wins more than 10% of the vote in total.

The 2018 new electoral alliances law allowed parties to form alliances and submit them to the YSK, meaning that they would be grouped together under their alliance name on the ballot paper. In addition, voters would be given the option to vote for the alliance as a whole if they did not prefer a specific party. Votes cast for alliances rather than parties would then be distributed to each member party of the alliance at electoral district-level depending on their vote shares. For example, if Party A and Party B were in an alliance and received 60 and 40 votes in an electoral district respectively, then 60% of votes cast for the alliance as a whole would be given to Party A while 40% would be given to Party B. Thus, if 10 votes were cast for the alliance, Party A would have a total of 66 (60+6) votes and Party B would have 44 (40+4) votes.

Parties barred from the election[]

The Green Party has been barred from the election.^[3]

Electoral districts[]

Opinion polls[]

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