REPUBLIC OF TURKEY
PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS OF 22 JULY 2007
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Elections to the Great National Assembly of Turkey (Turkiye Buyuk 
Millet Meclisi, TBMM)
Source: Website of the newspaper Milliyet

Parties
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* AKP - Adalet ve Kalkinma Partisi (Justice and Development Party)
* CHP - Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi (Republican People's Party)
* DP - Demokrat Parti (Democratic Party)
* GP - Genc Partisi (Youth Party)
* MHP - Milliyetci Hareket Partisi (Nationalist Movement Party)


NATIONAL SUMMARY OF VOTES AND SEATS
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Registered voters:      42,532,526
Votes cast:             35,887,968  84.4
Invalid votes:             870,653  02.4
Valid votes             35,017,315  97.6
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Party                   Votes       %       Change     Seats
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AKP                     16,340,534  46.7    +12.4      341   -22
CHP                      7,300,234  20.8    +01.4      111   -68
DP                       1,895,807  05.4                 -
GP                       1,062,352  03.9    -04.2        -
MHP                      5,004,003  14.3    +06.0       70   +70
Independents             1,822,253  05.2                28
Others                   1,592,132  04.5                 -
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Total                   35,017,315                     550
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The Independents are Kurdish nationalists who ran as independents
to circumvent the 10% threshold for parties to win seats.