Country: | Turkey |
Type: | parliamentary |
Previous Election: | 1927 Turkish general election |
Previous Year: | 1927 |
Next Election: | 1935 Turkish general election |
Next Year: | 1935 |
Seats For Election: | All 317 seats in the Grand National Assembly |
Majority Seats: | 159 |
Election Date: | 25 April 1931 |
Turnout: | 88% |
Image1: | Ataturk1930s.jpg |
Leader1: | Mustafa Kemal Atatürk |
Party1: | Republican People's Party |
Last Election1: | 335 |
Seats1: | 287 |
Seat Change1: | 48 |
Leader2: | – |
Party2: | Independents |
Last Election2: | 0 seats |
Seats2: | 30 |
Seat Change2: | 30 |
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 1931.[1] The Republican People's Party was the only party in the country at the time, as the Liberal Republican Party that had been set up the previous year had already been dissolved.[1] Voter turnout was reported to be 88%.[2]
Candidates were nominated by the Council of the Presidency of the CHP. Unlike in previous elections, candidates were sought from across the country, with a total of 1,176 nominations for the 287 candidates.[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.[3]
Although the country was a one-party state at the time, thirty seats were set aside for independents. Independent candidates were required to be "republican, nationalist and sincere."[1]