The outcome of the Turkish

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 local elections after 1980 is shown below. (In 1981 all parties were closed by the militay rule. For local elections before 1980 see Turkish local elections before 1980

Turkish local elections before 1980

The outcome of the Turkish local elections before 1980 is shown below. In the local elections in addition to mayors and muhtars, members of local parliaments are elected...

.). In the local elections in addition to mayor

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s and muhtars, members of local parliaments are elected. The voter base of the local parliaments and the national parliament is assumed to be identical. In the table, only those parties which received more than 1 % are shown.

Date of Election	ANAP Motherland Party (Turkey) The Motherland Party, was a political party in Turkey. It was founded in 1983 by Turgut Özal. It was merged to Democratic Party in October 2009...	SODEP SODEP SODEP is the abbreviation of Social Democracy Party of Turkey which was one of the two main parties of Turkey in early 1980s but later on merged with another party.- Background :...	DYP True Path Party The Democratic Party , abbreviated to DP, is a centre-right, conservative Turkish political party, established by Suleyman Demirel in 1983 as the Right Path Party...	HP People's Party (Turkey) - Background :After the coup of 1980, all political parties were closed by the military rule regardless of their political views, on the 16th of October 1981. In 1983, MGK decided to allow the formation of new parties with severe restrictions...	MDP Nationalist Democracy Party (Turkey) - Background :After the coup of 1980, all political parties were closed by the military rule, so called National Security Council or regardless of their political views, on the 16 October 1981. For approximately one and half year, there were no political parties. Finally, MGK decided to allow the...	RP Welfare Party The Welfare Party was an Islamist political party in Turkey. It was founded by Ali Türkmen, Ahmet Tekdal and Necmettin Erbakan in Ankara in 1983 as heir to two earlier parties, Milli Nizam Partisi and Milli Selamet Partisi , which were banned from politics... -FP Virtue Party Virtue Party was an Islamist political party established in December 1998 in Turkey. It was found unconstitutional by the Constitutional Court and then banned in June 2001, for violating the secularist articles of the Constitution...	SHP Social Democratic Populist Party (Turkey) The Social Democratic Populist Party was the name of a former Turkish left social-democratic party, which resulted from the fusion, in 1985, of the Social Democracy Party of Erdal İnönü and the People's Party of Aydın Güven Gürkan, both founded in 1983 with the return to democracy after the...	DSP Democratic Left Party (Turkey) The Democratic Left Party is a Turkish political party founded on November 14, 1985, by Rahşan Ecevit.-1985-1999:The DSP, a social democratic oriented party, was registered on November 14, 1985 by Rahşan Ecevit, wife of Bülent Ecevit, as he was banned from political life after the 1980 coup...	MHP Nationalist Movement Party The Nationalist Movement Party , is a far-right political party in Turkey.In the 2002 general elections, the party had lost its 129 seats as it had won only 8.34% of the national vote...	CHP	BBP Great Union Party The Great Union Party is a nationalist political party in Turkey, created on January 29, 1993. It is considered to be close to the Grey Wolves organization, and is related to the "Alperen Ocakları" tendency, which operated a synthesis between Islamism and Turkish Nationalism, and separated itself...	HADEP-DTP Democratic Society Party The Democratic Society Party was a Kurdish Kurdish nationalist political party in Turkey. The party considered itself social democratic, and had observer status in the Socialist International. It was considered to be the successor of the Democratic People's Party...	AKP Justice and Development Party The name Justice and Development Party is used by a several political parties:* Justice and Development Party * Justice and Development Party * Justice and Development Party * Justice and Development Party...	SP	GP Young Party The Young Party is a nationalist, statist, secular, republican, political party in Turkey.-2002 elections:Cem Uzan entered politics 90 days before the 2002 elections. Young Party was not eligible to enter the elections and Yeniden Doğuş Partisi was a small party which was eligible to enter...
25.03.1984 Turkish local elections, 1984 Turkey held local elections on 25 March 1984. In the elections, both the mayors and the local parliaments were elected. The figures presented below are the results of the local parliament elections. -Mayors of metropolitan centers:...	41,52	23,35	13,25	8,76	7,09	4,40	…	…	…	…	…	…	…	…	…
26.03.1989 Turkish local elections, 1989 Turkey held local elections on 26 March 1989. In the elections, both the mayors and the local parliaments were elected. The figures presented below are the results of the local parliament elections. -Mayors of metropolitan centers:...	21,80	…	25,13	…	…	9,80	28,69	9,03	4,14	…	…	…	…	…
27.03.1994 Turkish local elections, 1994 Turkey held local elections on 27 March 1994.-Mayor of metropolitan municipality:-External links:*...	21,09	...	21,41	…	…	19,14	13,53	8,75	7,95	4,61	1,26	…	…	…	…
18.04.1999 Turkish local elections, 1999 -Results:-Mayor of metropolitan municipality:-External links:*...	15,03	…	13,21	…	…	16,48	…	18,70	17,17	11,08	1,72	3,48	…	…	…
28.03.2004 Turkish local elections, 2004 On March 28, 2004, Turks voted in nationwide municipal elections for the mayors of more than 3,000 cities and towns, as well as administrative council members for all eighty-one Turkish provinces....	2,5	...	9,97	…	…	...	…	2,12	10,45	18,23	1,16	5,15	41,67	4,02	2,60
29.03.2009 Turkish local elections, 2009 Turkey held local elections on 29 March 2009. The overal winner was the ruling party Justice and Development Party, although the party saw a decline in its vote relative to the 2007 general election...	…	…	3,84	…	…	...	…	2,85	15,97	23,08	2,36	5,70	38,39	5,2	...

Legend of abbreviations

• ANAP: Motherland Party (later on merged into True Path Party)
• SODEP:Social Democracy Party (later on merged with People’s Party)
• DYP:True Path Party (later on renamed Democratic Party)
• HP:People’s Party (later on merged with SODEP)
• MDP:Nationalist Democracy Party
• RP:Welfare Party

FP:Virtue Party

• SHP:Social Democrat People’s Party (result of SODEP-HP, later itself merged with CHP)
• CHP:Issued from SHP (later on merged with SHP)
• DSP:Democratic Left Party
• MHP:Nationalist Movement Party (actually in 1989 National Task Party)
• BBP:Great Union Party
• HADEP:People’s Democracy Party(In 2004 as a coalition with SHP
  Social Democratic People's Party (Turkey)
  The current Social Democratic People's Party or SHP is a Turkish left social-democratic political party established in 2002 by Murat Karayalçın, former Ankara Metropolitan Mayor and Foreign Minister ....
  
  (not to be confused with SHP above))

DTP:Democratic Society Party

• AKP:Justice and Development Party
• SP:Felicity Party
• GP:Young Party