1946 Turkish general election

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1946 Turkish general election

← 1943 21 July 1946 1950 →
All 465 seats in the Grand National Assembly 233 seats needed for a majority
First party Second party   Leader İsmet İnönü Celal Bayar Party CHP DP Seats won 395 64
Prime Minister before election Şükrü Saraçoğlu CHP Elected Prime Minister Recep Peker CHP

General elections were held in Turkey on 21 July 1946,^[1] the first multi-party general elections in the country's history. The multiple non-transferable vote electoral system was used.^[2] The result was a victory for the Republican People's Party, which won 395 of the 465 seats. This election was held on the basis of open voting, secret counting and majority system, with the exception of judicial supervision (open vote, secret classification). Due to these irregularities, it has also been referred to as a "fraudulent election".^[3][4]