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Grand National Assembly of Turkey
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> Turkey > Grand National Assembly
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| Office | Parliament |
| Honorific | Member of Parliament - Abbr: MP |
| Type | Control Indicator |
| Filing Deadline | October 15, 1961 - 12:00pm Central |
| Polls Open | October 15, 1961 - 12:00am Central |
| Polls Close | October 15, 1961 - 11:00pm Central |
| Term Start | October 15, 1961 - 12:00pm |
| Term End | October 10, 1965 - 12:00am |
| Contributor | Ben |
| Last Modified | Ben February 11, 2005 12:27pm |
| Data Sources | [Link]
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| Description |
Fourteen political parties offered candidates in the October 1961 election, but only four won seats in the bicameral Grand National Assembly created under the new constitution. The results gave the CHP 173 seats in the lower house--the 450-member National Assembly--and only thirty-six in the 150-member Senate. The Justice Party (Adalet Partisi--AP), generally recognized as the heir of the DP, obtained 158 seats in the lower house and seventy in the upper. The remaining seats were divided between the New Turkey Party and the Republican Peasants' Nation Party, subsequently renamed the Nationalist Action Party (Milliyet�i Haraket Partisi--MHP). The New Turkey Party was led by onetime DP dissidents who had broken with Menderes in the mid-1950s; the MHP attracted militant rightists. Because neither of the two larger parties commanded a majority, formation of a broad coalition either between the two larger parties or between one of them and the two smaller parties would be necessary.
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