Turkey General election 2023 — Results
Election day: May 14, 2023
- Justice and Development Party (AKP): 35.61%, 268 seats
- Republican People's Party (CHP): 25.33%, 169 seats
- Green Left Party (YSP): 8.82%, 61 seats
- Nationalist Movement Party (MHP): 10.07%, 50 seats
- Good Party (İYİ): 9.69%, 43 seats
- New Welfare Party (YRP): 2.81%, 5 seats
- Workers' Party of Turkey (TİP): 1.73%, 4 seats
Turnout: 87.05%
About this election
Electoral system and alliances
Members were elected by D'Hondt proportional representation in provincial constituencies. Ahead of 2023 the national threshold was lowered from 10% to 7%, and the alliance system again allowed small parties to enter parliament on a larger partner's coat-tails. This let a cluster of minor partners — the Islamist New Welfare Party (YRP), the left-wing Workers' Party of Turkey (TİP) and others — win seats, while the two big blocs, the AKP-led People's Alliance and the CHP-led Nation Alliance, structured the contest.
Compiled and reviewed from official results by ElectioMap. See our data methodology.
In numbers
- 10.28 points separated Justice and Development Party (AKP) from Republican People's Party (CHP).
- Justice and Development Party (AKP) converted 35.61% of the vote into 268 of 600 seats (44.67%), 9.06 points more than its vote share.
- The top two shared 60.94% of the vote between them, and 5 lists cleared 5%.
- Justice and Development Party (AKP) moved −6.95 points against the 2018 general election (42.56% → 35.61%).
- Turnout of 87.05% is the highest 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
- Why Turnout Figures Disagree — why two sources publish different turnout for one election
- D’Hondt vs Sainte-Laguë — how a divisor formula turns vote shares into seats
- How Electoral Systems Work Around the World — first-past-the-post, proportional and mixed systems, with real numbers