Türkiye 1999 parliamentary election
Final results from ParlGov, read : Democratic Left Party won 136 of 550 seats with 22.2% of the vote; 87.1% of registered voters cast a ballot, up 1.9 points on 1995.
- Türkiye
- Held
Result
- Democratic Left Party136
- Nationalist Movement Party129
- Welfare Party111
- Motherland Party86
- True Path Party85
- Independents3
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | ± seats | % | ± points | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic Left Party | 136 | +60 | 22.2 | +7.5 | 6,919,670 |
| Nationalist Movement Party | 129 | +129 | 18.0 | +9.8 | 5,606,583 |
| Welfare Party | 111 | −47 | 15.4 | −6.0 | 4,805,381 |
| Motherland Party | 86 | −46 | 13.2 | −6.4 | 4,122,929 |
| True Path Party | 85 | −50 | 12.0 | −7.2 | 3,745,417 |
| Social Democratic Populist Party / Republican People's Party | 0 | −49 | 8.7 | −2.0 | 2,716,094 |
| People's Democracy Party | 0 | 0 | 4.8 | +0.6 | 1,482,196 |
| Great Unity Party | 0 | 1.5 | 456,353 | ||
| Independents | 3 |
± is the change against the Türkiye 1995 parliamentary election, party by party.
Votes by party
- Democratic Left Party 6,919,670
- Nationalist Movement Party 5,606,583
- Welfare Party 4,805,381
- Motherland Party 4,122,929
- True Path Party 3,745,417
- Social Democratic Populist Party / Republican People's Party 2,716,094
- People's Democracy Party 1,482,196
- Great Unity Party 456,353
- Independents
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
87.1% of the 37,495,217 registered voters cast a ballot (32,656,070 ballots), up 1.9 points on 1995. 31,184,496 of them were valid votes. The highest turnout since 1987 in our data. How turnout is counted.
Votes and seats
- Democratic Left Party22.2% of votes24.7% of seats
- Nationalist Movement Party18.0% of votes23.5% of seats
- Welfare Party15.4% of votes20.2% of seats
- Motherland Party13.2% of votes15.6% of seats
- True Path Party12.0% of votes15.5% of seats
- Social Democratic Populist Party / Republican People's Party8.7% of votes0.0% of seats
- People's Democracy Party4.8% of votes0.0% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 9.4 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 6.8 by votes and 4.9 by seats; Democratic Left Party led Nationalist Movement Party by 4.2 points of the vote. How these are computed.
Sources and licence
Sources and licence
- ParlGov 2024 Release (Döring and Manow), Harvard Dataverse (source). Licence: CC0 1.0 Universal
- Wikidata, party colours (P465) (source). Licence: CC0 1.0 Universal
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