Insight Turkey
Insight Turkey
Challenging ideas
On Turkish politics and International affairs

Author

Hatice Tekiner Moğulkoç

İstanbul Şehir University, [email protected]
Hatice Tekiner Moğulkoç
A Quantitative Analysis of Turkey’s 2011 Elections
October 1, 2011
The changes in Turkey’s political landscape over the past decade have been quite dramatic. In this study, we present a quantitative analysis of the 2011 national elections based on clustering techniques and we compare our results with those of the previous elections in 1999, 2002, and 2009. Our results suggest, once again, that Turkish citizens turn out to vote consistently since the1950s. We also investigate significant changes in voting trends of different regions and provinces. We conclude with a future-based qualitative outlook to indicate what the results could be if certain electoral changes are made, such as the law for political parties, a different national threshold for parties to be represented and elected to Parliament, and an eventual new constitution.

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