Turkey General election 2015 — Results
Election day: June 7, 2015
- Justice and Development Party (AKP): 40.87%, 258 seats
- Republican People's Party (CHP): 24.95%, 132 seats
- Nationalist Movement Party (MHP): 16.29%, 80 seats
- Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP): 13.12%, 80 seats
Turnout: 83.92%
About this election
Electoral system
Members were elected by proportional representation (D'Hondt) in multi-member provincial constituencies, subject to a 10% national threshold — one of the highest in the world, designed in the aftermath of the 1980 coup to keep small and especially Kurdish parties out of parliament. A party falling below 10% won no seats at all, its votes redistributed to those above the line, which historically inflated the AKP's seat bonus. The HDP's decision to run as a party rather than as independents, and its success in crossing the threshold, was the decisive gamble of the election.
Compiled and reviewed from official results by ElectioMap. See our data methodology.
In numbers
- 15.92 points separated Justice and Development Party (AKP) from Republican People's Party (CHP).
- Justice and Development Party (AKP) converted 40.87% of the vote into 258 of 550 seats (46.91%), 6.04 points more than its vote share.
- The top two shared 65.82% of the vote between them, and 4 lists cleared 5%.
- Turnout of 83.92% is the lowest of the 4 general elections covered here since 2015.
Calculated from the official figures on this page and from the other elections of this type in our archive.
Understanding this election
- How We Check an Election Figure — the checks every number passes before publication
- How Live Election Data Is Collected and Verified — from ballot box to published figure
- Why Official Results Sometimes Take Weeks — the stages between the count and the legal result