1999 Turkish general election

GPTKB entity

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Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:politics
gptkbp:book gptkb:Nationalist_Movement_Party
gptkbp:country gptkb:Turkey
gptkbp:date 18 April 1999
gptkbp:fifthBook gptkb:True_Path_Party
gptkbp:fifthPlaceLeader gptkb:Tansu_Çiller
gptkbp:fifthPlaceSeats 85
gptkbp:fifthPlaceVotePercentage 12.01
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label 1999 Turkish general election
gptkbp:mainOppositionSeats 86
gptkbp:mainOppositionVotePercentage 13.22
gptkbp:mainWinnerSeats 136
gptkbp:mainWinnerVotePercentage 22.19
gptkbp:nextEdition gptkb:2002_Turkish_general_election
gptkbp:notableFor Coalition government formed after election
First election after 1997 military memorandum
First time Nationalist Movement Party became second largest party
Imprisoned Kurdish politician Leyla Zana was not allowed to run
Republican People's Party failed to pass threshold and was left out of parliament
Virtue Party was a successor to Welfare Party, which was banned
gptkbp:opposedBy gptkb:Mesut_Yılmaz
gptkb:Motherland_Party
gptkbp:parliament gptkb:Parliament_of_the_United_Kingdom
gptkbp:previousEdition gptkb:1995_Turkish_general_election
gptkbp:primeMinister gptkb:Bülent_Ecevit
gptkbp:seatingCapacity 550
gptkbp:secondPlaceLeader gptkb:Devlet_Bahçeli
gptkbp:secondPlaceSeats 129
gptkbp:secondPlaceVotePercentage 17.98
gptkbp:thirdPlace gptkb:Virtue_Party
gptkb:Recai_Kutan
111
gptkbp:thirdPlaceVotePercentage 15.41
gptkbp:threshold 10%
gptkbp:voterTurnout 87.09%
gptkbp:winner gptkb:Bülent_Ecevit
gptkb:Democratic_Left_Party
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Democratic_Left_Party
gptkb:Cumhuriyet_Halk_Partisi
gptkbp:bfsLayer 6