Turkey's Higher Board of Elections on Monday announced the final results of the parliamentary elections held on July 22, which confirmed the victory of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP).
According to the results, the AKP gained 46.5 percent of the votes, which meant 341 seats for the ruling party in Turkey's 550- member parliament.
The Republican People's Party (CHP) came in the second place with 20.9 percent of the votes, and the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) garnered 14.3 percent. Accordingly, the CHP won 112 seats while the MHP would have 70 seats in the new parliament.
Other parties did not gain enough support to clear the 10- percent hurdle to enter the parliament, said the results.
A total of 26 independent MPs entered the new parliament while one seat will be vacant as MHP's Mehmet Cihat Ozonder, who won in the elections, died in a traffic accident in Ankara on July 26.
Higher Board of Elections Chairman Muammer Aydin said over 36 million people cast votes in the last Sunday's elections while about one million votes were qualified as invalid.
"The rate of participation was 84.25 percent in the elections although they were held in the summer," Aydin said.
The July 22 parliamentary elections were scheduled to be held on Nov. 4 but were brought forward because of the failure to elect a new president after the opposition party CHP boycotted the presidential election in late April and early May.
In addition, the new parliament will convene its first session on Aug. 4 when the newly-elected lawmakers will take oath and formally take office, the semi-official Anatolia news agency reported.
Sukru Elekdag, an 83-year-old lawmaker from the CHP, will chair the first session as he is the oldest member of the parliament.
Source: Xinhua
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