November 2015 Turkish Parliament Speaker election
The Turkish Parliament Speaker elections of November 2015 took place on 22 November 2015 to elect the 27th Speaker of the Grand National Assembly, who will preside over the proceedings of the 26th Parliament of Turkey elected in the 1 November 2015 general election.
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All 550 Members of Parliament voting in the Grand National Assembly 367 votes needed to win in the first two rounds 276 votes needed to win in the third round | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Conduct
Motion to delay
İdris Baluken, a parliamentary group leader of the People's Democratic Party (HDP), raised a motion to delay the speaker election on the grounds that two HDP MPs were on hunger strike in the district of Nusaybin, Mardin Province, which had entered its tenth day of military curfew. Baluken claimed that this would result in the election outcome not being representative of the parliamentary composition. Interim speaker Deniz Baykal however rejected the motion regarding it as irrelevant to the parliamentary agenda.[1]
Results
| Party | Candidate | Party MPs |
Round 1 367 votes to win |
Round 2 367 votes to win |
Round 3 276 votes to win | |
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| AKP | İsmail Kahraman | 317 | 316 | 318 |  316 | |
| CHP | Ayşe Gülsün Bilgehan | 134 | 127 | 126 | 125 | |
| HDP | Dengir Mir Mehmet Fırat | 59 | 41 | 40 | 41 | |
| MHP | Yusuf Halaçoğlu | 40 | 41 | 39 | 40 | |
| Invalid | 0 | 0 | 2 | |||
| Blank | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Turnout | 525 | 523 | 524 | |||
| Result | Inconclusive | Inconclusive | Kahraman elected | |||
| Source: RotaHaber | ||||||