Turkish general election, 1954

May 2, 1954

Total of 541 seats of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey 271 seats were needed for a majority

	First party	Second party

Leader	Adnan Menderes	İsmet İnönü
Party	Democrat	CHP
Last election	408	69
Seats won	490	30
Seat change	82	39
Popular vote	5,151,550	3,161,696
Percentage	57.6%	35.4%
Swing	4.3%	4.5%

Prime Minister before election

Adnan Menderes
Democrat

Elected Prime Minister

Adnan Menderes
Democrat

General elections were held in Turkey on 2 May 1954. The result was a victory for the Democrat Party, which won 490 of the 535 seats.^[1] Voter turnout was 88.6%.

Results

Party	Votes	%	Seats	+/–
Democrat Party	5,151,550	57.6	490	+82
Republican People's Party	3,161,696	35.4	30	–39
Republican Nation Party	434,085	4.9	5	New
Peasants' Party	57,011	0.6	0	New
Independents	137,318	4.8	10	+1
Invalid/blank votes	153,957	–	–	–
Total	9,095,617	100.00	535	+48
Registered voters/turnout	10,262,063	88.6	–	–
Source: Nohlen et al.

References

↑ Nohlen, D, Grotz, F & Hartmann, C (2001) Elections in Asia: A data handbook, Volume I, p271 ISBN 0-19-924958-X

Elections and referendums in Turkey

Presidential elections	2014

General elections	1923 1927 1931 1935 1939 1943 1946 1950 1954 1957 1961 1965 1969 1973 1977 1983 1987 1991 1995 1999 2002 2007 2011 2015 (Jun) 2015 (Nov) next

Local elections	1930 1934 1938 1942 1946 1950 1955 1963 1968 1973 1977 1984 1989 1994 1999 2004 2009 2014 2019

Senate elections	1961 1964 1966 1968 1973 1975 1977 1979

Referendums	1961 1982 1987 1988 2007 2010

By-elections	1986 2003

See also: Elections in the Ottoman Empire

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