Parliamentary elections were held in Northern Cyprus on 28 July 2013, a year earlier than necessary.
[1] The Republican Turkish Party emerged as the largest in the Assembly of the Republic, winning 21 of the 50 seats.
The government of Prime Minister İrsen Küçük collapsed in May 2013 after eight MPs left his National Unity Party and the government lost a vote of no confidence.
[2] The fifty members of the Assembly were elected by proportional representation in five multi-member constituencies with an electoral threshold of 5%.
[3] Five parties with 250 candidates registered to contest the election, as well as seven independents.