1943 Turkish general election

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| country = Turkey

| type = parliamentary

| previous_election = 1939 Turkish general election

| previous_year = 1939

| next_election = 1946 Turkish general election

| next_year = 1946

| seats_for_election = All 455 seats in the Grand National Assembly

| majority_seats = 228

| election_date = 28 February 1943

| image1 = Inonu Ismet.jpg

| leader1 = İsmet İnönü

| party1 = Republican People's Party

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| map_image = 1943_Türkiye_Milletvekili_Genel_Seçimleri.png

| title = Prime Minister

| before_election = Şükrü Saracoğlu

| before_party = Republican People's Party

| after_election = Şükrü Saracoğlu

| after_party = Republican People's Party|

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General elections were held in Turkey on 28 February 1943.Myron E. Weiner, Ergun Özbudun (1987) Competitive Elections in Developing Countries, Duke University Press, p337 They were the last single-party elections in the country, as the Republican People's Party was the only party in the country at the time.

Electoral system

The elections were held under the Ottoman electoral law passed in 1908, which provided for a two-stage process. In the first stage, voters elected secondary electors (one for the first 750 voters in a constituency, then one for every additional 500 voters). In the second stage the secondary electors elected the members of the Turkish Grand National Assembly.Weiner & Özbudun, p334

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