REPUBLIC OF TURKEY
PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS OF 12 JUNE 2011
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Elections to the Great National Assembly of Turkey (Turkiye Buyuk 
Millet Meclisi, TBMM)
Source: Website of the newspaper Vatan

Parties
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* AKP - Adalet ve Kalkinma Partisi (Justice and Development Party)
* CHP - Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi (Republican People's Party)
* MHP - Milliyetci Hareket Partisi (Nationalist Movement Party)


NATIONAL SUMMARY OF VOTES AND SEATS
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Votes and seats are compared with those at the 2007 election.
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Registered voters:      50,339,596
Votes cast:             43,913,276  87.2
Invalid votes:             939,540  02.1
Valid votes             42,973,736  97.9
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Party                   Votes       %       Change     Seats
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AKP                     21,440,702  49.9    +03.2      326   -15
CHP                     11,130,832  25.9    +05.1      135   +24
MHP                      5,578,844  13.0    -01.3       53   -17
Others                   4,823,358  11.2                36   +08
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Total                   42,973,736                     550
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The Independents are Kurdish nationalists who ran as independents
to circumvent the 10% threshold for parties to win seats.