The name Grand National Assembly of Turkey (Turkish: Türkiye Büyük Millet Meclisi) referred to the entire parliament including both houses.

However, the activities of both houses of the parliament were suspended after the 1980 Turkish coup d'état.

While the D'Hondt method was used for the lower house (Turkish: Millet meclisi), majority system (winner takes all) was applied for the Senate.

The outcome for the first senatorial election (with the exclusion of independents) was as follows:[2] After 1961, the obvious discrepancy between the percentage of the votes and the number of seats was severely criticized and before the next elections, the election system for the Senate was changed to the D'Hondt system as well on 17 April 1964.

The total legislation term was six years, where 1/3 of the seats were up for election every two years (Turkish: Üçtebir yenileme seçimi).