Parties contesting the June 2015 Turkish general election

This is a list of all political parties eligible and intending to contest the Turkish general election of June 2015. Parties wishing to contest were required to send a full list of their candidates to the Supreme Electoral Council of Turkey by 17:00 local time on April 7th, 2015. 20 of the 32 eligible parties submitted candidate lists. A full list of all political parties in Turkey is available here.

Parties eligible

On 1 February, the Supreme Electoral Council of Turkey announced that 32 parties fit the criteria in order to field candidates in the general election. In order to be eligible, parties need to have formed local organisations at least six months before the election and have completed their party congresses by the election. Furthermore, they need local party offices in at least half of the 81 Provinces of Turkey. The eligible parties who are intending to contest the election by fielding partisan candidates are listed as follows.

PartyLeader
ANAPARAnatolia PartyEmine Ülker Tarhan
MEPCentre PartyAbdurrahim Karslı
KPCommunist PartyÖzlem Şen Abay
MYPConservative Ascension PartyAhmet Reyiz Yılmaz
DPDemocrat PartyGültekin Uysal
DSPDemocratic Left PartyMasum Türker
DGPDemocratic Progress Partyİdris Bal
SPFelicity PartyMustafa Kamalak
İLKFirst PartyEran Tapan
HÜDA-PARFree Cause PartyZekeriya Yapıcıoğlu
ÖDPFreedom and Solidarity PartyAlper Taş
BBPGreat Union PartyMustafa Destici
YURT-PHomeland PartySadettin Tantan
BTPIndependent Turkey PartyHaydar Baş
AKPJustice and Development PartyAhmet Davutoğlu
EMEPLabour PartySelma Gürkan
LDPLiberal Democrat PartyCem Toker
MPNation PartyAykut Edibali
MİLADNation and Justice PartyMehmet Bozdemir
MHPNationalist Movement PartyDevlet Bahçeli
VPPatriotic PartyDoğu Perinçek
HYPPeople's Ascent PartyRagıp Önder Günay
HTKPPeople's Communist Party of TurkeyUmut Kuruç
HKPPeople's Liberation PartyNurullah Ankut
HDPPeoples' Democratic PartySelahattin Demirtaş
CHPRepublican People's PartyKemal Kılıçdaroğlu
HEPARRights and Equality PartyOsman Pamukoğlu
HAK-PARRights and Freedoms PartyFehmi Demir
HAPRights and Justice PartyYiğit Zeki Öztürk
TURK-PSocial Reconciliation Reform and Development PartyAhmet Eyüp Özgüç
DYPTrue Path PartyÇetin Özaçıkgöz
GPYoung PartyCem Uzan

Parties fielding candidates

Parties that intended to contest the election were required to hand their candidate lists to the Supreme Electoral Council of Turkey (YSK) by 5pm local time on 7 April. 20 parties presented candidate lists before the deadline, while another, the First Party, was delayed by 22 minutes due to a traffic accident.[1] The parties are listed below according to their position on the ballot paper.

The numer of electoral districts in which the party is fielding candidates is shown in brackets after the party's name.

Ballot #PartyLeaderPositionIdeologyDistricts contested
1DYPTrue Path PartyÇetin ÖzaçıkgözCentre rightEconomic liberalism56
2ANAPARAnatolia PartyEmine Ülker TarhanCentre leftKemalism85
3HAK-PARRights and Freedoms PartyFehmi FıratLeft wingKurdish nationalism75
4KPCommunist PartyÖzlem Şen AbayFar leftCommunism85
5MPNation PartyAykut EdibaliCentre rightTurkish nationalism85
6HAPRights and Justice PartyYiğit Zeki ÖztürkCentreSocial Justice43
7MEPCentre PartyAbdurrahim KarslıCentreCentrism73
8TURK-PSocial Reconciliation Reform and Development PartyAhmet Eyüp ÖzgüçCentreCentrism55
9HKPPeople's Liberation PartyNurullah AnkutLeft wingCommunism85
10LDPLiberal Democrat PartyCem TokerCentre rightLiberalism58
11MHPNationalist Movement PartyDevlet BahçeliRight wingTurkish nationalism85
12HDPPeoples' Democratic PartySelahattin DemirtaşLeft wingDemocratic socialism85
13SPFelicity Party (National Alliance with the BBP)Mustafa KamalakFar rightIslamism85
14CHPRepublican People's PartyKemal KılıçdaroğluCentre leftSocial democracy85
15AKPJustice and Development PartyAhmet DavutoğluRight wingConservative democracy85
16DSPDemocratic Left PartyMasum TürkerCentre leftSocial democracy85
17YURT-PHomeland PartySaadettin TantanCentre rightTurkish nationalism56
18DPDemocrat PartyGültekin UysalCentre rightEconomic liberalism85
19VPPatriotic PartyDoğu PerinçekLeft wingLeft-wing nationalism85
20BTPIndependent Turkey PartyHaydar BaşCentreKemalism85

Parties contesting as independents

Since the parliamentary threshold of 10% does not apply to independent candidates, parties who poll significantly below the threshold may contest the election by fielding their candidates as independents in order to increase their chances of getting elected. This was a tactic employed by Kurdish nationalist parties during the 2007 and 2011 election. In the latter, the Peace and Democracy Party candidates won 5.67% of the vote and 35 were elected since they contested the election as independents and rejoined the BDP shortly after taking their seats.

The following parties have expressed intention of fielding independent candidates for the election.

PartyLeader
HEPARRights and Equality PartyOsman Pamukoğlu
HÜDA-PARFree Cause PartyZekeriya Yapıcıoğlu

Electoral alliances

The following electoral alliances were made between parties in the run-up to the election.

The True Path Party (DYP) expressed its intention to form an alliance with six other parties in order to overcome the 10% election threshold.[6] The party's leader Çetin Özaçıkgöz met with the leaders of the Centre Party, Rights and Equality Party (HEPAR) and the Great Union Party (BBP).[6] In the end, no alliance was formed.

References

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