In response, party leader Meral Akşener claimed that she had not embarked on her campaign with any expectations from 'the government's media'.On 7 May, a group armed with knives and clubs consisting of allegedly 50 to 60 people approached an On 8 May, the house of İyi Party founding member Mehmet Aslan in On 26 May, a group of Felicity Party and Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) activists engaged in a brawl in During a leaked speech of a private meeting with AKP officials, Erdoğan ordered them to go in a great number as official representatives in voting locations to seize control of the ballot boxes, ensuring that the "work there would be finished before it even started". The election was originally scheduled for November 2019. Turkey voted Sunday in a parliamentary election that the ruling party hopes will win it a majority large enough to be able to change the constitution. Any political party that has won 5% of the vote in the previous parliamentary election can put forward a candidate, although parties that have not met this threshold can form alliances and field joint candidates as long as their total vote share exceeds 5%. List of elections. Seven candidates applied to the YSK to seek nomination by signatures, with three applications being rejected due to insufficient paperwork. The election was originally scheduled for November 2019. Despite insistence from the government that they would not be brought forward, speculation over an early vote continued since the 2017 referendum. The following sections give list of key results. Reportedly, she passed this threshold less than four hours after having launched her signature collection campaign.Temel Karamollaoğlu was nominated as the candidate of the Felicity Party (SP) on 6 May 2018, after he had successfully collected the 100,000 signatures required for minor party candidates to gain ballot access. Karamollaoğlu's campaign adopted the slogan "Doğu Perinçek was nominated as the candidate of the On 20 July 2016, five days after an attempted coup, the government declared a The calls to end the state of emergency were criticised by the Turkish government and loyal members of parliament, who called the PACE declaration 'politicised, unfair, unjust and beyond the limits'.Following his nomination as the CHP's presidential candidate on 4 May, Muharrem İnce began his campaign with a rally in his hometown of A similar situation was observed during the İyi Party's first extraordinary congress on 1 April, which was only covered by Halk TV. After the first elections, there were a number of criticisms of the government due to the Russo-Turkish War, 1877–1878 by the representatives, and the assembly was dissolved and an election called on 28 June 1877. This led to the SP being regarded as a potential kingmaker in future alliances, causing several larger parties to approach Karamollaoğlu in a bid to field a joint candidate. Bold: latest elections, italic: upcoming elections; General (parliamentary) elections. Despite insistence from the government Crucially, the office of the The constitutional changes were approved by a 51-49% margin, according to official results.

There were two parliamentary governments during the Ottoman period in what is now Turkey. The proposed constitutional changes would see parliamentary and presidential elections taking place on the same day every five years, with the initial vote being set for 3 November 2019. Turkish citizens living in the US have cast their ballots on the last day of voting for expats in Turkey's presidential and parliamentary elections. Voting opened on the June 9 with more than 100,000 Turkish nationals eligible to vote across the United States. The 2018 Turkish presidential election took place on 24 June 2018 as part of the 2018 general election, alongside parliamentary elections on the same day.

This would be done in order to prevent HDP crossing the 10% electoral threshold, which would greatly help the AKP and prevent a repeat of the "Supported by the left-wing political parties and groups of the General elections are scheduled to be held in Turkey in 2023. In the run-up to the election, various parties underwent a Serving president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was widely seen as the undisputed candidate of the People's Alliance, an alliance set up by the governing Justice and Development Party (AKP) and the far-right Nationalist Movement Party (MHP).

Voters will elect a new president, as well as 600 members of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey, each for a term of five years. Following the approval of constitutional changes in a referendum held in 2017, the elected President will be both the head of state and head of government of Turkey, taking over the latter role from the to-be-abolished office of the Prime Minister.

With the support of the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), the government was able to enact a referendum in Parliament, with the vote being set for 16 April 2017. They were only permitted to nominate one candidate. CHP leader The HDP nominated Selahattin Demirtaş, their former leader who was also the HDP's candidate in Upon announcing the İyi Party's establishment on 25 October 2017, party leader Meral Akşener announced that she would be a candidate in the presidential election.In the run-up to the election, SP leader Temel Karamollaoğlu managed to carry his party to the mainstream media following a number of speeches where he heavily criticised the government.