Abstract
ELECTIONS AND ELECTION SYSTEMS IN TURKEY AFTER THE TRANSITION TO THE MULTI-PARTY PERIOD
Electoral systems are political instruments that enable elected thoughts and political tendencies to be represented. The electoral systems, which are formed on two basic principles of justice in representation and stability in governing, are divided into two groups as proportional representation and majority vote systems. Many proposals do arrive most beneficial voting systems to be applied before every general election in Turkey. The experience of different electoral systems, Turkey has had over the last 60 years has resulted in the establishment of coalition and single party governments. The d'Hondt system, which has been preferred since 1969, has always been to the benefit of powerful parties as it is implemented with the electoral threshold. The electoral threshold in Turkey is quite high compared to other modern democracies. The ideal system for Turkey is a system in which there is no electoral threshold, each region is represented in equal proportions according to population density, voters do not have strategic voting anxiety and vote-chair distribution is fair. Framework of this study contains implemented election systems in Turkey and within this context analysis of their succeeding results.
Keywords
Political Elections, Elections in Turkey, d’Hondt System, Electoral Thresholds
