Northern Cyprus parliamentary election, 2003
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Nationwide results
As published by the Turkish Cypriot Electoral Commission in the Official Gazette on February 22:Party | Political Oriëntation | Leader | % of total vote | Seats | ||
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Republican Turkish Party Republican Turkish Party The Republican Turkish Party is a social democratic political party in the Republic of Cyprus. The party was founded in 1970 by Ahmet Mithat Berberoğlu, a lawyer, in opposition to the leadership of Fazıl Küçük and Rauf Denktaş.In the 1980s, the CTP's political position shifted to the left, to a... and United Forces (CTP-BG) |
Centre-left, Social-democratic, Progressive. | Mehmet Ali Talat Mehmet Ali Talat Mehmet Ali Talat is the former President of the unrecognized Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. He was the leader of the left wing Republican Turkish Party . He became prime minister in 2004, and subsequently won the Presidential election held on 17 April 2005... |
35,18 | 19 | 13 | |
National Unity Party (UBP) | Rightist, Nationalist, Conservative. | Dervis Eroglu Dervis Eroglu Dr. Derviş Eroğlu is the President of the unrecognized Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. He was Prime Minister of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus from 1985 to 1994 and from 1996 to 2004, and leader of the National Unity Party. His party won the general elections in 2009 and Eroğlu... |
32.93 | 18 | −6 | |
Democratic Party Democratic Party (Northern Cyprus) The Democratic Party is a center-right conservative political party in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. President of the party is Serdar Denktaş, son of the ex-president Rauf Denktaş.... (DP) |
Centre-right, Liberal, Conservative. | Serdar Denktash | 12.93 | 7 | −6 | |
Peace and Democracy Movement Peace and Democracy Movement The Peace and Democracy Movement was a social democratic political party in the de facto Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. In the last legislative elections for the House of Representatives of Northern Cyprus - 20 January 2005 - the party won 5.8 % of the popular vote and 1 out of the 50 seats... (BDH) |
Leftist, Socialist. | Mustafa Akinci | 13.14 | 6 | −1 | |
Nationalist Peace Party Nationalist Peace Party The Nationalist Peace Party is a political party in Northern Cyprus without parliamentary representation.... (MBP) |
Rightist, Nationalist. | Ata Tepe | 3.23 | 0 | N/A | |
Solution and European Union Party Solution and EU Party The Solution and EU Party is a political party in Northern Cyprus without parliamentary representation.... (ÇABP) |
Leftist, Single-Issue party. | 1.97 | 0 | N/A | ||
Cypriot Justice Party (KAP) | Rightist, Nationalist. | Oğuz Kalelioğlu | 0.6 | 0 | N/A | |
(+/-) - Difference in seats from 1998 election.
Aftermath
Under the Turkish Cypriot constitution, the members of the new parliament must gather to be sworn in 10 days after the results are officially published. Soon after this first session, President Rauf Denktaş had to decide whom to ask building a government.As a result he asked Mehmet Ali Talat to form the next government. Talat had 15 days to establish a coalition government. It was hard for him to build a government. The two blocs in the parliament, the "pro Annan-plan" bloc and the "status quo" bloc, each had 25 seats in parliament. The UBP refused Talat's offer to build a government together, and as a result the only way to build a government for Talat was to get the DP over to join his government. After some unsuccessful talks, the DP agreed to build a coalition with the CTP. As a result a coalition relying on a narrow majority of 26 out of 50 seats was built.