1908 Ottoman general election

1908 Ottoman general elections
← 1877 November–December 1908 1912 →
288 seats in the Chamber of Deputies[1]
Grand Vizier before election

Kâmil Pasha

 Elected Grand Vizier

Kâmil Pasha
CUP

Talât Bey and a group of Unionists in front of the CUP headquarters in Salonica

General elections were held in November and December 1908 for all 288 seats of the Chamber of Deputies of the Ottoman Empire, following the Young Turk Revolution which established the Second Constitutional Era. They were the first elections contested by organised political parties.[1]

  1. ^ a b Myron E. Weiner, Ergun Özbudun (1987) Competitive Elections in Developing Countries, Duke University Press, p334