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Turkish Parliamentary Elections, October 1973

Political Parties

Percentage of Votes (in per cent)

Number of Seats

Republican People’s Party

                                                 33.3

                              185

Justice Party

                                                 29.8

                              149

Democratic Party

                                                 11.9

                                45

National Salvation Party

                                                 11.8

                                48

Republican Reliance Party

                                                   5.3

                                13

Nationalist Movement Party

                                                   3.4

                                 3

Unity Party of Turkey

                                                   1.1

                                 1

Nation Party

                                                   0.6

                                 0

Independent

                                                   2.8

                                 6

Voters Turnout

66.82

450[1]

 

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

Prepared by Vishakh K Vaaliathan

As part of the policy, the MEI@ND standardizes spellings and date format to make the text uniformly accessible and stylistically consistent. The views expressed here are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views/positions of the MEI@ND. Editor, MEI@ND P R Kumaraswamy

 

 

[1] None of the competing political parties got enough support to form a single-party government.