General elections were held in

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on 10 October 1965. The result was a victory for the Justice Party, which won 240 of the 450 seats. Voter turnout was 71.3%.

Electoral system

The

national remnant National remnant (Turkish ''Ulusal artık'' or ''milli bakiye'') is a method used to allocate seats in a party-list proportional representation electoral system that has electoral districts. The system uses a Largest remainder method to determine ...

electoral system was used. This was a two-tier system of

party-list proportional representation Party-list proportional representation (list-PR) is a subset of proportional representation electoral systems in which multiple candidates are elected (e.g., elections to parliament) through their position on an electoral list. They can also be u ...

, with the country divided into 66 districts. In each district, parties were awarded one seat for each

Hare quota The Hare quota (also known as the simple quota) is a formula used under some forms of proportional representation. In these voting systems the quota is the number of votes that guarantees a candidate, or a party in some cases, captures a seat. Th ...

. Remaining votes and seats were pooled on the national level, where the remaining seats were distributed amongst the parties using the remaining votes using the Hare quota and largest remainder method.Nohlen ''et al''., p239

Results

References

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