The law underwent only minimal amendments in the Second Constitutional Era and was retained by the Republic of Turkey with only slight revisions until 1946.
[1] The law was detailed and covered a wide range of electoral matters, including-electoral districts, parliamentary contingencies, the preparation of registers, the method of selection and the duties of electoral inspection committees, suffrage requirements and the general conduct of elections.
Registration was the task of village and neighborhood headmen and religious leaders, a practice which was retained by the Ottoman Electoral Law.
The two-stage system reinforced patronage relationships and precluded the election of candidates truly representative of the common people.
[3] In contrast to the contemporary electoral systems of Germany, Russia, Japan, and England, there was no legally stipulated weighted voting, distributed among different social groups.