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Türkiye 1991 parliamentary election

Final results from ParlGov, read : True Path Party won 178 of 450 seats with 27.0% of the vote; 83.9% of registered voters cast a ballot, down 9.4 points on 1987.

Result

Seats and votes by party

PartySeats± seats%± pointsVotes
True Path Party178+11927.0+7.96,600,726
Motherland Party115−17724.0−12.35,862,623
Social Democratic Populist Party / Republican People's Party88−1120.8−4.05,066,571
Welfare Party62+6216.9+9.74,121,355
Democratic Left Party7+710.8+2.22,624,301
Largest party without seats00.4108,369

± is the change against the Türkiye 1987 parliamentary election, party by party.

Votes by party
  • True Path Party 6,600,726
  • Motherland Party 5,862,623
  • Social Democratic Populist Party / Republican People's Party 5,066,571
  • Welfare Party 4,121,355
  • Democratic Left Party 2,624,301
  • Largest party without seats 108,369

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

83.9% of the 29,979,123 registered voters cast a ballot (25,157,089 ballots), down 9.4 points on 1987. 24,416,666 of them were valid votes. How turnout is counted.

Votes and seats

  • True Path Party27.0% of votes39.6% of seats
  • Motherland Party24.0% of votes25.6% of seats
  • Social Democratic Populist Party / Republican People's Party20.8% of votes19.6% of seats
  • Welfare Party16.9% of votes13.8% of seats
  • Democratic Left Party10.8% of votes1.6% of seats
Each party's share of the vote (outlined) and of the seats (filled)

The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 11.3 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 4.7 by votes and 3.6 by seats; True Path Party led Motherland Party by 3.0 points of the vote. How these are computed.

Sources and licence

Sources and licence

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