Elections in the Ottoman Empire

Six elections were held in the

Ottoman Empire The Ottoman Empire, * ; is an archaic version. The definite article forms and were synonymous * and el, Оθωμανική Αυτοκρατορία, Othōmanikē Avtokratoria, label=none * info page on book at Martin Luther University ...

for the

Chamber of Deputies The chamber of deputies is the lower house in many bicameral legislatures and the sole house in some unicameral legislatures. Description Historically, French Chamber of Deputies was the lower house of the French Parliament during the Bourbon R ...

, the popularly elected lower house of the

General Assembly A general assembly or general meeting is a meeting of all the members of an organization or shareholders of a company. Specific examples of general assembly include: Churches * General Assembly (presbyterian church), the highest court of pres ...

, the Ottoman parliament: *

Ottoman general election, 1877 (first) The first general elections in the history of the Ottoman Empire were held in 1877.Hasan Kayalı (1995"Elections and the Electoral Process in the Ottoman Empire, 1876–1919"''International Journal of Middle East Studies'', Vol. 27, No. 3, pp 265� ...

Ottoman general election, 1877 (second) General elections were held in the Ottoman Empire during the second half of 1877.Myron E Weiner & Ergun Özbudun (1987) ''Competitive Elections in Developing Countries'' Duke University Press, p333 Background General elections had been held earli ...

1908 Ottoman general election General elections were held in November and December 1908 for all 288 seats of the Chamber of Deputies of the Ottoman Empire, following the Young Turk Revolution which established the Second Constitutional Era. They were the first elections conte ...

1912 Ottoman general election Early general elections were held in the Ottoman Empire in April 1912. Due to electoral fraud and brutal electioneering, which earned the elections the nickname Sopalı Seçimler ("Election of Clubs"), the ruling Committee of Union and Progress wo ...

1914 Ottoman general election General elections were held in the Ottoman Empire in 1914.Hasan Kayalı (1995"Elections and the Electoral Process in the Ottoman Empire, 1876-1919"''International Journal of Middle East Studies'', Vol. 27, No. 3, pp 265–286 The Committee of Un ...

* 1919 Ottoman general election An election in 1920 was held after the dissolution of the Chamber of Deputies after the Allied occupation of Istanbul, in order to select delegates for the Grand National Assembly of the

Turkish National Movement The Turkish National Movement ( tr, Türk Ulusal Hareketi) encompasses the political and military activities of the Turkish revolutionaries that resulted in the creation and shaping of the modern Republic of Turkey, as a consequence of the def ...

against the Allied occupation of the country: * 1920 Ottoman general election {{Ottoman elections