The elections had originally been scheduled to take place on June 18, but the government moved them forward by a month to avoid coinciding with the university exams, the Hajj pilgrimage and the start of the summer holidays.
The YSGP itself headed the left-wing Labour and Freedom Alliance along with the Workers' Party of Turkey (TİP).
The AKP, led by incumbent president Erdoğan, won the highest percentage of the vote with 36%, though it suffered its worst result since 2002.
[citation needed] Many smaller parties ran on the lists of larger ones to avoid splitting the vote.
[citation needed] The 600 members of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey will be elected by party-list proportional representation in 87 electoral districts, by the D'Hondt method.
[6] At the initiative of the ruling AKP and its main political ally MHP, the national electoral threshold for a party to enter parliament was lowered from 10% to 7%.
The Assembly has a total of 600 seats, with each electoral district allocated a certain number of MPs in proportion to their population.
In all but four cases, electoral districts share the same name and borders as the 81 provinces, with the exceptions being Ankara, Bursa, İzmir and Istanbul.
[12] For political parties to achieve (nationwide) ballot access, they must be eligible to meet the requirements set by Law no.
[14][15] As of 2022[update] the establishment of the Humanity and Freedom Party had been awaiting the Constitutional Court for four years after the completion of the legal process.
[17] The table below shows the places of alliances, parties, and independent candidates in the order they appear on the ballot paper.
Akşener criticised Erdoğan after the attack by saying "A political party cannot be intimidated one and a half months before an election.
[22][23][24] Upon investigation, it became clear that a nighttime security guard had fired his gun at burglars – only to hit the building by mistake with two stray bullets.
[26] On 1 May, a group of unidentified individuals armed with guns and sticks assaulted HUDAPAR youth members in Mersin.