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Senate elections were held in Turkey on 15 October 1961. In this election 150 members of the senate were elected by first-past-the-post system. The result was surprising because the party with second greatest number of votes nationwide won twice as many seats as the leading party.^[1]

Results


Party		Votes	%	Seats
	Republican People's Party	3,734,285	37.02	36
	Justice Party	3,560,675	35.30	71
	New Turkey Party	1,401,637	13.90	27
	Republican Villagers Nation Party	1,350,892	13.39	16
	Independents	39,558	0.39	0
Total		10,087,047	100.00	150

Total votes		10,519,659	–
Registered voters/turnout		12,926,837	81.38
Source: Nohlen et al.^[2]

References

^ "Results of the senate elections" (in Turkish). Archived from the original on 2012-03-13. Retrieved 2010-12-20.
^ Dieter Nohlen, Florian Grotz & Christof Hartmann (2001) Elections in Asia: A data handbook, Volume I, pp269–273 ISBN 0-19-924958-X

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