Country: | Turkey |
Type: | parliamentary |
Previous Election: | 1923 Turkish general election |
Previous Year: | 1923 |
Next Election: | 1931 Turkish general election |
Next Year: | 1931 |
Seats For Election: | All 335 seats on the Grand National Assembly |
Majority Seats: | 168 |
Election Date: | 20 July 1927 |
Turnout: | 20% |
Image1: | Mustafa Kemal Ataturk.png |
Leader1: | Mustafa Kemal Atatürk |
Party1: | Republican People's Party |
Last Election1: | 332 |
Seats1: | 335 |
Seat Change1: | 3 |
Prime Minister | |
Before Election: | İsmet İnönü |
Before Party: | Republican People's Party |
After Election: | İsmet İnönü |
After Party: | Republican People's Party |
General elections were held in Turkey in 1927.[1] The Republican People's Party ("Association for the Defense of the Rights of Anatolia and Rumelia" until 9 September 1923) was the only party in the country at the time, as the Progressive Republican Party that had been set up in 1924 was dissolved the following year.[1]
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.[2]