2002 Turkish general election

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The 2002 Turkish general election was a landmark parliamentary vote that reshaped Turkey’s political landscape by bringing the newly formed Justice and Development Party (AKP) to power and ending the dominance of many established parties.

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instanceOf general election
abbreviationOfMainOppositionPartyAfterElection CHP
abbreviationOfMainWinner AKP
campaignIssue corruption
economic recovery
political stability
context held after 2001 Turkish financial crisis
held amid economic crisis in Turkey
country Turkey
electionDate 2002-11-03
electoralThreshold 10%
electoralType legislative
forOffice Grand National Assembly of Turkey
governmentFormedBy Justice and Development Party
leaderOfMainOppositionParty Deniz Baykal
leaderOfMainWinner Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
location Turkey
mainOppositionPartyAfterElection Republican People’s Party
mainWinner Justice and Development Party
majorPartyFailingThreshold Democratic Left Party
Motherland Party
Nationalist Movement Party
True Path Party
nextElection 2007 Turkish general election
notableOutcome brought the newly formed AKP to power
ended the parliamentary presence of several established parties
reshaped Turkey’s party system
parliamentaryMajority AKP alone
parliamentaryTermNumber 22nd Parliament of Turkey
partiesCrossingThreshold Justice and Development Party
Republican People’s Party
partyOfPrimeMinisterAfterElection Justice and Development Party
partyOfPrimeMinisterBeforeElection Democratic Left Party
percentageVoteAKP 34.3%
percentageVoteCHP 19.4%
previousElection 1999 Turkish general election
primeMinisterAfterElection Abdullah Gül
primeMinisterBeforeElection Bülent Ecevit
resultingGovernmentType single-party majority government
seatsWonByAKP 363
seatsWonByCHP 178
significance considered a turning point in modern Turkish politics
marked the beginning of long-term AKP rule in Turkey
totalSeats 550
voterTurnout about 79%
votingSystem proportional representation
votingSystemDetail party-list proportional representation
year 2002

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AK Party wonElection 2002 Turkish general election
2007 Turkish general election previousElection 2002 Turkish general election
1999 Turkish general election nextElection 2002 Turkish general election