page_title: Electoral system of Turkey
section_title: Changes since 2011
hierarchical_section_title: Electoral system of Turkey / General elections / Electoral districts / Changes since 2011
caption_attribution_description: English: The number of MPs elected per electoral district in the 2015 Turkish general election
context_page_description: The Electoral system of Turkey varies for general, presidential and local elections that take place in Turkey every five years. Turkey has been a multi-party democracy since 1950, with the first democratic election held on 14 May 1950 leading to the end of the single-party rule established in 1923. The current electoral system for electing Members of Parliament to the Grand National Assembly has a 10% election threshold, the highest of any country.
  A brief summary of the electoral systems used for each type of election is as follows:
  General elections: The D'Hondt method, a party-list proportional representation system, to elect 600 Members of Parliament to the Grand National Assembly from 87 electoral districts that elect different numbers of MPs depending on their populations.
  Local elections: Metropolitan and District Mayors, Municipal and Provincial Councillors, neighbourhood presidents and their village councils elected through a First-past-the-post system, with the winning candidate in each municipality elected by a plurality.
context_section_description: A total of eight electoral districts had their number of MPs adjusted since the 2011 general election by the electoral council, as listed below. The two electoral districts of Ankara also had their boundaries changed.
caption: The number of MPs elected per electoral district for the 2015 general election
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