General elections were held in
Turkey
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in 1927.
[Myron E. Weiner, Ergun Özbudun (1987) ''Competitive Elections in Developing Countries'', Duke University Press, p337] 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.
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Electoral system
The elections were held under the Ottoman electoral law
Ottoman Electoral Law and Ottoman constitution promulgated in December 1876. Both remained valid until the end of the Ottoman Empire. The law underwent very minor amendments during the course of the Second Constitutional Era and was retained by th ...
passed in 1908,[ 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.][Weiner & Özbudun, p334]
References
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1927
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1927 elections in Turkey
One-party elections