Turkish general election, 1999

  • DSP: 136
  • Indep. 3
  • ANAP: 86
  • DYP: 85
  • FP: 111
  • MHP: 129

The parliamentary elections in Turkey in 1999 and also the 14th general elections in Turkey took place on 18 April 1999, were the first at which Lokal-/Kommunal- and national elections were held on the same day. There were also elections to the 21 Grand National Assembly.

The two biggest winners were the Demokratik Sol Parti and Milliyetçi Hareket Partisi which not least benefited from the arrest of the PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan. Both reached in each case about 20 %, formed a coalition.

Participating parties

There were 20 different parties to choose from:

Number of Members by province

  • Adana 14
  • Adiyaman 5
  • Afyonkarahisar 7
  • Ağrı 5
  • Amasya 3
  • Ankara 29
  • Antalya 13
  • Artvin 2
  • Aydın 8
  • Balıkesir 8
  • Bilecik 2
  • Bingöl 3
  • Bitlis 4
  • Bolu 5
  • Burdur 3
  • Bursa 16
  • Çanakkale 4
  • Çankırı 3
  • Çorum 5
  • Denizli 7
  • Diyarbakır 11
  • Edirne 4
  • Elazig 5
  • Erzincan 3
  • Erzurum 7
  • Eskişehir 6
  • Gaziantep 9
  • Giresun 5
  • Gümüşhane 2
  • Hakkari 3
  • Hatay 10
  • Isparta 5
  • Mersin 12
  • Istanbul 69
  • İzmir 24
  • Kars 3
  • Kastamonu 4
  • Kayseri 8
  • Kırklareli 3
  • Kırşehir 3
  • Kocaeli 9
  • Konya 16
  • Kütahya 6
  • Malatya 7
  • Manisa 10
  • Kahramanmaras 8
  • Mardin 6
  • Muğla 6
  • Muş 4
  • Nevsehir 3
  • Nigde 3
  • Ordu 7
  • Rize 3
  • Sakarya 6
  • Samsun 9
  • Siirt 3
  • Sinop 3
  • Sivas 6
  • Tekirdag 5
  • Tokat 7
  • Trabzon 8
  • Tunceli 2
  • Şanlıurfa 11
  • Usak 3
  • Van 7
  • Yozgat 6
  • Zonguldak 5
  • Aksaray 4
  • Bayburt 2
  • Karaman 3
  • Kırıkkale 4
  • Batman 4
  • Şırnak 3
  • Bartın 2
  • Ardahan 2
  • Iğdır 2
  • Yalova 2
  • Karabük 3
  • Kilis 2
  • Osmaniye 4

Election result

There, 18% of voters were not represented in Parliament.

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Bülent Ecevit (DSP ) founded on 28 May 1999 with the MHP and ANAP coalition government in which he was Prime Minister. The MHP was again involved in a government after 21 years.

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