1961 Turkish Senate election

Senate elections were held in Turkey on 15 October 1961. In this election 150 members of the senate were elected by first-past-the-post system. The result was surprising because the party with second greatest number of votes nationwide won twice as many seats as the leading party.[1]

Results

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PartyVotes%Seats
Republican People's Party3,734,28537.0236
Justice Party3,560,67535.3071
New Turkey Party1,401,63713.9027
Republican Villagers Nation Party1,350,89213.3916
Independents39,5580.390
Total10,087,047100.00150
Total votes10,519,659
Registered voters/turnout12,926,83781.38
Source: Nohlen et al.[2]

References

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  1. ^ "Results of the senate elections" (in Turkish). Archived from the original on 2012-03-13. Retrieved 2010-12-20.
  2. ^ Dieter Nohlen, Florian Grotz & Christof Hartmann (2001) Elections in Asia: A data handbook, Volume I, pp269–273 ISBN 0-19-924958-X