2023 Turkish General Election

General elections took place on 14 May 2023.

Presidential elections are held to elect the President of Turkey using a two-round system. Simultaneously, parliamentary elections are held to elect 600 Members of parliament to the Grand National Assembly of Turkey.

2023 Turkish general election
2023 Turkish General Election
← 2018 14 May 2023 2028 →
Opinion polls
14 May 2023 (first round)
28 May 2023 (second round)
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Nominee Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu
Party AK Party CHP
Alliance People's Alliance Nation Alliance
Popular vote 27,117,669 24,954,920
Percentage 52.18% 47.82%

2023 Turkish General Election

President before election

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
AK Party

Elected President

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
AK Party

14 May 2023
Party Leader % Seats +/–
AK Party Recep Tayyip Erdoğan 35.61 268 −27
CHP Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu 25.33 169 +23
YSGP Çiğdem Kılıçgün Uçar, İbrahim Akın 8.81 61 −6
MHP Devlet Bahçeli 10.07 50 +1
Good Party Meral Akşener 9.69 43 0
YRP Fatih Erbakan 2.82 5 +5
TİP Erkan Baş 1.73 4 +4
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
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Parliament diagram

Background

The previous Turkish general election took place in 2018. The election marked the country's transition from a parliamentary system to a presidential one, as narrowly endorsed by voters in the 2017 constitutional referendum. That election resulted in a victory for incumbent president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who had held the position since 2014.

Meanwhile, the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party) lost its absolute majority in the Grand National Assembly of Turkey for the first time since June 2015, forcing it to rely on its coalition partner, the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) of Devlet Bahçeli, to pass legislation. The office of the Prime Minister of Turkey was abolished on 12 July 2018, and its last holder, Binali Yıldırım, took office as the Speaker of the Grand National Assembly.

Although there were speculations about a snap election prior to the regular one in 2023, Bahçeli ruled them out. In a written statement, he said that elections would not be held before 2023. He also confirmed that the current coalition between AK Party and MHP will remain intact and Erdoğan will be their joint nominee for President. On 9 June 2022, Erdoğan declared his candidacy.

On 22 January 2023, Erdoğan announced he would initiate snap elections on 10 March which would bring the election date forward from 18 June to 14 May. Muharrem İnce announced he is withdrawing his candidacy on 11 May.

Presidential election

Candidates

On 1 April, after a drawing conducted by the Supreme Electoral Council, the places of four presidential candidates on the ballot paper have been determined as follows:

List of presidential candidates in order they appear on the ballot paper
1 2 3 4
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Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Muharrem İnce Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu Sinan Oğan
Campaign Campaign Campaign Campaign

Parliamentary election

Contesting parties

The table below shows the places of alliances, parties, and independent candidates in the order they will appear on the ballot paper:

List Party Chairperson(s) Main ideology Alliance
1 Nation Party MİLLET Cuma Nacar [tr] Conservatism
2 Rights and Freedoms Party HAK-PAR Düzgün Kaplan Kurdish nationalism
3 Communist Party of Turkey TKP Kemal İbrahim Okuyan Communism

Kemalism

Union of Socialist Forces
4 Communist Movement of Turkey TKH Aysel Tekerek Communism
5 Left Party SOL PARTİ Önder İşleyen [tr] Socialism
6 Young Party GENÇPARTİ Murat Hakan Uzan [tr] Kemalism
7 Homeland Party MEMLEKET Muharrem İnce Kemalism
8 Great Unity Party BÜYÜK BİRLİK Mustafa Destici Turkish Islamonationalism People's Alliance
9 Justice and Development Party AK PARTİ Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Erdoğanism
10 New Welfare Party YENİDEN REFAH Muhammed Ali Fatih Erbakan Millî Görüş
11 Nationalist Movement Party MHP Devlet Bahçeli Ultranationalism
12 Party of Greens and the Left Future YEŞİL SOL PARTİ İbrahim Akın, Çiğdem Kılıçgün Uçar Green politics Labour and Freedom Alliance
13 Workers' Party of Turkey TİP Erkan Baş Communism
14 Justice Unity Party [tr] AB PARTİ İrfan Uzun Nationalism
15 Motherland Party ANAP İbrahim Çelebi [tr] Liberal conservatism
16 Innovation Party YP Öztürk Yılmaz Kemalism
17 People's Liberation Party HKP Nurullah Efe [tr] Marxism–Leninism

Nationalism

18 National Road Party MİLLİ YOL Remzi Çayır National conservatism
19 Patriotic Party VATAN PARTİSİ Doğu Perinçek Ulusalcılık
20 Power Union Party [tr] GBP Ali Karnap Conservatism
21 Republican People's Party CHP Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu Kemalism Nation Alliance
22 Good Party İYİ PARTİ Meral Akşener Kemalism
23 Justice Party AP Vecdet Öz [tr] Liberal conservatism Ancestral Alliance
24 Victory Party Ümit Özdağ Anti-immigration
25 Independent candidate(s)

See also

Notes

References

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