Election Name: | 1923 Turkish presidential election |
Country: | Turkey |
Type: | presidential |
Next Election: | 1927 Turkish presidential election |
Next Year: | 1927 |
1Blank: | MP votes |
2Blank: | Percentage |
Nominee1: | Mustafa Kemal Atatürk |
Party1: | Republican People's Party |
1Data1: | 158 |
President | |
After Election: | Mustafa Kemal Atatürk |
After Party: | Republican People's Party |
The 1923 Turkish presidential election is the presidential election held in the Grand National Assembly of Turkey on 29 October 1923.[1] 158 MPs participated in the elections.[2] Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the Speaker of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey, was unanimously elected as the founding president in the first round.[3]