| Settlement Type: | Town |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Coordinates: | 47.1039°N 20.7419°W |
| Pushpin Map: | Hungary |
| Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
| Timezone: | CET |
| Utc Offset: | +1 |
| Timezone Dst: | CEST |
| Utc Offset Dst: | +2 |
| Official Name: | Túrkeve |
| Subdivision Type1: | County |
| Subdivision Name1: | Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok |
| Subdivision Type2: | District |
| Subdivision Name2: | Mezőtúr |
| Area Total Km2: | 236.52 |
| Population As Of: | 2011 |
| Population Total: | 9008[1] |
| Population Density Km2: | 38.1 |
| Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
| Postal Code: | 5420 |
| Area Code Type: | Area code |
| Area Code: | (+36) 56 |
Túrkeve is a town in Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok county, in the Northern Great Plain region of Hungary.[1]
It covers an area of 236.522NaN2.[1]
According to the 2011 census, the total population of Túrkeve was 9,008, of whom there were 87.8% Hungarians and 2.4% Romani by ethnicity. 12.2% did not declare their ethnicity, excluding these people Hungarians made up 100% of the total population.[1] In Hungary people can declare more than one ethnicity, so some people declared a minority one along with Hungarian.[2]
Túrkeve is one of the least religious town in Hungary, 56.7% of the population was irreligious, while 17.9% was Hungarian Reformed (Calvinist) and 4.4% Roman Catholic.[1]
There used to be a railway (link to the Hungarian Wikipedia page) connecting Mezőtúr and Túrkeve, owned by MÁV. However, due to low ridership, this was closed in the 1960s, and the track was removed thereafter. With the closure of the only rail line between Túrkeve and any other city, the other form of transport is through road, including a daily bus service.
The current mayor of Túrkeve is Róbert Benedek Sallai (Independent).
The local Municipal Assembly, elected at the 2019 local government elections, is made up of 9 members (1 Mayor and 8 Individual list MEPs) divided into this political parties and alliances:[3]
| Party | Seats | Current Municipal Assembly | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Independent | 5 | M | ||||||
| Fidesz-KDNP | 2 | |||||||
| MSZP | 2 | |||||||
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