Country: | Turkey |
Type: | parliamentary |
Previous Election: | 1920 Turkish Grand National Assembly election |
Previous Year: | 1920 |
Next Election: | 1927 Turkish general election |
Next Year: | 1927 |
Seats For Election: | All 333 seats in the Grand National Assembly |
Majority Seats: | 167 |
Election Date: | 28 June 1923 |
Image1: | Müşir Gazi Mustafa Kemal Paşa, Balıkesir, 1923.png |
Leader1: | Mustafa Kemal Pasha |
Colour1: | D70000 |
Party1: | ARMHC |
Seats1: | 332 |
Prime Minister | |
Before Election: | Rauf Orbay |
Before Party: | ARMHC |
After Election: | Rauf Orbay |
After Party: | ARMHC |
General elections were held in Turkey in 1923.[1] The Association for Defence of National Rights (later Republican People's Party) was the only party in the country at the time.
The elections were held under the Ottoman electoral law passed in 1908,[1] which provided for a two-stage process. In the first stage voters elected secondary electors (one for the first 750 voters in a constituency, then one for every additional 500 voters). In the second stage the secondary electors elected the members of the Turkish Grand National Assembly. However, a second law was passed on 3 April 1923 lowering the voting age to 18 and abolishing the tax-paying requirement.[2]