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President: Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (AKP) · Governing parties: AKP, MHP
Legislative elections: Grand National Assembly, 5-year term, 600 seats (2015I/II: 550), 7% threshold (parties and alliances; 2015I/II/2018: 10%), party-list PR:

     2023 2018 2015II 2015I

Party

Ideology % Seats % Seats % Seats % Seats
Adalet ve Kalkinma Partisi (AKP)
Justice and Development Party (a)
National conservatism
Social conservatism
Islamism
35,6 268 42,6 295 49,5 317 40,9 258
Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi (CHP)
Republican People's Party (b)
Social democracy
Kemalism
25,3 169 22,6 146 25,3 134 25,0 132
Milliyetçi Hareket Partisi (MHP)
Nationalist Movement Party (a)
Nationalism
Far-right politics 
10,1 50 11,1 49 11,9 40 16,3 80
İyi Parti (İYİ)
Good Party (b)
National conservatism
Kemalism
9,7 43 10,0 43 - - - -
Yeşil Sol Parti (YSP)
Green Left Party (c)
Green politics
Democratic socialism
Minority interests (KUR)
 8,8 61 - - - - - -
Yeniden Refah Partisi (YRP)
New Welfare Party (a)
Islamism
Social conservatism
2,8 5 - - - - - -
Türkiye İşçi Partisi (TİP)
Workers' Party of Turkey (c)
Communism 1,7 4 HDP (2) - - - -
Büyük Birlik Partisi (BBP)
Great Union Party (a)
Nationalism
Far-right politics
Islamism
1,0 - AKP (1) 0,5 - SP -
Demokrasi ve Atılım Partisi (DEVA)
Democracy and Progress Party
Liberal conservatism  CHP (14) - - - - - -
Saadet Partisi (SP)
Felicity Party (b/d)
Islamism
Social conservatism
CHP (10) 1,3 -/(2) 0,7 - 2,1 -
Gelecek Partisi (GP)
Future Party
Conservatism   CHP (10) - - - - - -
Demokrat Parti (DP)
Democratic Party
Conservatism
Kemalism
CHP (3) İYİ (1) 0,1 - 0,2 -
Halkların Demokratik Partisi (HDP)
Peoples' Democratic Party
Minority interests (KUR)
Democratic socialism
 - - 11,7 67 10,8 59 13,1 80
Others  5,0 - 0,7 - 1,2 - 2,5 -
Total - 600 - 600 - 550 - 550
Turnout 87,0 86,2 85,2 86,6

© 2023 Wolfram Nordsieck. Source: Supreme Electoral Council (www.ysk.gov.tr).  For full coverage, click here (1946-present). Notes: (a) 2018/2023: Pre-election alliance (2018: AKP-MHP; 2023: AKP-MHP-YRP-BBP); (b) 2018/2023: Pre-election alliance (2018: CHP-İYİ-SP; 2023: CHP-İYİ); (c) 2023: Pre-election alliance; (d) 2018: MPs from the CHP list.