EVALUATION OF ELECTIONS IN TURKEY AFTER 1980 YEARS IN THE LIGHT OF SINGLE TRANSFERABLE VOTE THEORY
TEK TRANSFER EDİLEBİLİR OYLAR TEOREMİ IŞIĞINDA TÜRKİYEDE 1980’Lİ YILLARDAN SONRAKİ SEÇİMLERİN DEĞERLENDİRİLMESİ

Author : Hamza ŞİMŞEK
Number of pages : 138-154

Abstract

As is known, prior to 2002, one of Turkey's most important problem was political stability. Until 2002 elections mostly established coalition governments and political stability could not be achieved. After a multi-party life, 65 governments were established in 67 years. In Single transferable vote theory majority rule is required. If at least one party couldn’t provide majority then that party which is gets minimum votes, removed from the party list. Parties classified as right and left parties and the distribution of votes will be done in this way. In our work we classify the parties as right, center right, left, center left and Conservative party and vote distribution done in this way. The following method shall be applied in the study; if the party from the list is left-wing, then this party be shifted to the left with a party. This process take place until a majority of the party is provided. the only transferable votes theorem in our work be applied to elections in Turkey after 1980. In this way, it examined whether there a change in the result of the elections. Particularly in the 1991, 1995 and 1999 elections, the results that would affect the electoral fate were reached. The June and November elections of 2015 are important in terms of not seeing the vote transfers and have given results that support our theory.

Keywords

Selection System, Single transferable votes theory, Game Theory

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