[2] Candidates were nominated by the Council of the Presidency of the CHP.

[1] The elections were held under the Ottoman electoral law passed in 1908,[1] which provided for a two-stage process.

In the second stage the secondary electors elected the members of the Turkish Grand National Assembly.

[3] Although the country was a one-party state at the time, thirty seats were set aside for independents.

Independent candidates were required to be "republican, nationalist and sincere.