3rd Chamber of Deputies of the Ottoman Empire

3rd Chamber of Deputies of the Ottoman Empire
History
Founded17 December 1908 (1908-12-17)
Disbanded17 January 1912 (1912-01-17)
Preceded by2nd Chamber of Deputies
Succeeded by4th Chamber of Deputies
Leadership
President of the Chamber of Deputies
Vice-president of the Chamber of Deputies
Seats275 deputies
Elections
Electoral college
Last election
December 1908
Next election
April 1912

The Third Chamber of Deputies of the Ottoman Empire was elected in the 1908 Ottoman general election, which was called following the Young Turk Revolution. The new parliament consisted of 147 Turks, 60 Arabs, 27 Albanians, 26 Greeks (Rum), 14 Armenians, 10 Slavs, and four Jews.[1] Including the amount of deputies elected in by-elections, the total amount of seats included 288 deputies. On 17 January 1912, through an imperial decree, the Sultan Mehmed V dissolved the Chamber of Deputies and called for new elections within three months.[2]

Ethnic composition of the 1908 Ottoman parliament
  Turks: 147 seats
  Arabs: 60 seats
  Albanians: 27 seats
  Greeks: 26 seats
  Armenians: 14 seats
  Slavs: 10 seats
  Jews: 4 seats
  1. ^ Myron E. Weiner, Ergun Özbudun (1987) Competitive Elections in Developing Countries, Duke University Press, p334
  2. ^ Kansu, Aykut (2000). Politics in Post-revolutionary Turkey, 1908-1913. Brill. p. 319. ISBN 978-90-04-11587-3.