2018 Turkish Parliament Speaker election

2018 Turkish Parliament Speaker elections

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597 of 600 Members of Parliament voting in the Grand National Assembly
400 votes needed to win in the first two rounds
301 votes needed to win in the third round
Turnout584 of 600 (97.33%)
 
Nominee Binali Yıldırım Erdoğan Toprak Meral Danış Beştaş
Party AK Party CHP HDP
Constituency İzmir (I) İstanbul (III) Adana
Final round 335 135 63
Percentage 57.36% 23.12% 10.79%

 
Nominee Hayrettin Nuhoğlu Cihangir İslam
Party İYİ Felicity
Constituency İstanbul (I) İstanbul (III)
Final round 40 5
Percentage 6.85% 0.86%

Speaker before election

İsmail Kahraman
AK Party

Elected Speaker

Binali Yıldırım
AK Party

The Turkish Parliament Speaker election of 2018 took place on 12 July 2018 to elect the 28th Speaker of the Grand National Assembly, who will serve for the first three years of the 27th Parliament of Turkey. With 7 parties represented in the 27th Parliament, the speaker was expected to be elected in the third round, as no party or electoral bloc had the necessary two-thirds majority to elect their candidate outright.

The Justice and Development Party (AKP) candidate Binali Yıldırım was elected in the third round with support from the Nationalist Movement Party, winning 335 votes.[1]

  1. ^ "Turkey: Binali Yildirim elected parliament speaker". Archived from the original on 2018-07-12. Retrieved 2018-07-12.