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1969 Turkish general election 
Summary
General elections were held in Turkey on 12 October 1969. The electoral system used was party-list proportional representation using the D'Hondt method in 66 electoral districts.[1] The result was a victory for the Justice Party, which won 256 of the 450 seats.[2] Voter turnout was 64.3%.
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| Turnout | 64.35% ( 6.91pp) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Results edit
| Party | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | |
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| Justice Party | 4,229,712 | 46.53 | 256 | +16 | |
| Republican People's Party | 2,487,006 | 27.36 | 143 | +9 | |
| Reliance Party | 597,818 | 6.58 | 15 | New | |
| Nation Party | 292,961 | 3.22 | 6 | –25 | |
| Nationalist Movement Party | 275,091 | 3.03 | 1 | –10 | |
| Unity Party | 254,695 | 2.80 | 8 | New | |
| Workers' Party | 243,631 | 2.68 | 2 | –12 | |
| New Turkey Party | 197,929 | 2.18 | 6 | –13 | |
| Independents | 511,023 | 5.62 | 13 | +12 | |
| Total | 9,089,866 | 100.00 | 450 | 0 | |
| Valid votes | 9,086,296 | 95.48 | |||
| Invalid/blank votes | 429,739 | 4.52 | |||
| Total votes | 9,516,035 | 100.00 | |||
| Registered voters/turnout | 14,788,552 | 64.35 | |||
| Source: Nohlen et al. | |||||
References edit
- ^ Dieter Nohlen, Florian Grotz & Christof Hartmann (2001) Elections in Asia: A data handbook, Volume I, p239 ISBN 0-19-924958-X
- ^ Nohlen et al., p272