General elections were held in
Turkey
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on 8 February 1935.
[Myron E. Weiner, Ergun Özbudun (1987) ''Competitive Elections in Developing Countries'', Duke University Press, p337] The
Republican People's Party
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was the only party in the country at the time.
Electoral system
The elections were held under the
Ottoman electoral law 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]
Following a change in the law in 1934, women
A woman is an adult female human. Before adulthood, a female child or adolescent is referred to as a girl.
Typically, women are of the female sex and inherit a pair of X chromosomes, one from each parent, and women with functional u ...
were granted the right to vote and run for election, and the age of voting was raised from 18 to 22.[
]
See also
* Women in Turkish politics
References
{{Turkish elections, state=expanded
1935 elections in Turkey
1935
Events
January
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One-party elections
Election and referendum articles with incomplete results
February 1935 in Europe
February 1935 in Asia