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Türkiye 1987 parliamentary election

Final results from ParlGov, read : Motherland Party won 292 of 450 seats with 36.3% of the vote; 93.3% of registered voters cast a ballot, up 1.0 points on 1983.

Result

Seats and votes by party

PartySeats± seats%± pointsVotes
Motherland Party292+8136.3−8.88,704,335
Social Democratic Populist Party / Republican People's Party99−1824.7−5.75,931,000
True Path Party5919.14,587,062
Democratic Left Party08.52,044,576
Welfare Party07.21,717,425
Nationalist Movement Party02.9701,538

± is the change against the Türkiye 1983 parliamentary election, party by party.

Votes by party
  • Motherland Party 8,704,335
  • Social Democratic Populist Party / Republican People's Party 5,931,000
  • True Path Party 4,587,062
  • Democratic Left Party 2,044,576
  • Welfare Party 1,717,425
  • Nationalist Movement Party 701,538

ParlGov lists parties with at least 1 percent of the vote or 2 seats, so the rows do not add up to the valid votes. How we read it.

Share of the vote

Turnout

93.3% of the 26,376,926 registered voters cast a ballot (24,603,541 ballots), up 1.0 points on 1983. 23,971,629 of them were valid votes. How turnout is counted.

Votes and seats

  • Motherland Party36.3% of votes64.9% of seats
  • Social Democratic Populist Party / Republican People's Party24.7% of votes22.0% of seats
  • True Path Party19.1% of votes13.1% of seats
  • Democratic Left Party8.5% of votes0.0% of seats
  • Welfare Party7.2% of votes0.0% of seats
  • Nationalist Movement Party2.9% of votes0.0% of seats
Each party's share of the vote (outlined) and of the seats (filled)

The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 22.3 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 4.1 by votes and 2.1 by seats; Motherland Party led Social Democratic Populist Party / Republican People's Party by 11.6 points of the vote. How these are computed.

Sources and licence

Sources and licence

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