2009 Northern Cypriot parliamentary election

2009 Northern Cypriot parliamentary election

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All 50 seats in the Assembly of the Republic 26 seats needed for a majority
Turnout	81.68%
Party Leader % Seats +/– UBP Derviş Eroğlu 43.97 26 +7 CTP Ferdi Sabit Soyer 29.34 15 −9 DP Serdar Denktaş 10.64 5 −1 TDP Mehmet Çakıcı 6.87 2 +1 ÖRP Turgay Avcı 6.20 2 New This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below. Prime Minister before Prime Minister after Ferdi Sabit Soyer CTP Derviş Eroğlu UBP

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Parliamentary elections were held in Northern Cyprus on 19 April 2009, a year earlier than necessary.^[1] The early election was decided upon by the ruling Republican Turkish Party.^[2] Winning the largest portion of the vote, the National Unity Party won the election, and the party chairman, Derviş Eroğlu, became prime minister.^[3]

171,000 Cypriots were eligible to vote. It has been claimed that of these as many as 100,000 were originally Turkish immigrants.^[4]