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18th Turkish Parliamentary Elections, October 1991[*]

Political Parties

Percentage of Votes

(in per cent)

Number of Seats

Truth Path Party

                                                 27.0

                              178

Motherland Party

                                                 24.0

                              115

Social Democratic Populist Party[†]

                                                 20.8

                                88

Welfare Party[‡]

                                                 16.9

                                62

Democratic Left Party

                                                 10.8

                                  7

Socialist Party

                                                   0.4

                                  -

Independent

                                                   0.1

                                  -

Voters Turnout

                                                 83.9

                             450

 

Source: Republic of Turkey Prime Ministry Directorate General of Press and Information and The Grand National Assembly of Turkey by Kasim ERDEM and Mehmet SOLAK

 

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[*] The principle of preferential voting was introduced for the first time. The national electoral threshold remained at 10 percent.

[†] Formed alliance with People’s Labour Party.

[‡] The Nationalist Labour Party and the Reformist Democratic Party contested as Welfare Party.