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Projection · 6 August 2026
Türkiye600-seat Grand National AssemblyD'Hondt · 7% threshold

AKP-MHP to narrowly miss majority as YENI emerges as a major force.

My projection for a snap parliamentary election held under current conditions. The AKP finishes clearly first on 267 seats — and the People's Alliance still lands below a majority. AKP 267, MHP 28: 295. Six short of the 301 needed to control the chamber.

301 FOR A MAJORITY
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Seated left to right by bloc
Projected seats
PartySeatsShare of chamberProvinces led
AKP26744.5%50
Yeni Parti22437.3%23
DEM Parti569.3%8
MHP284.7%0
İYİ Parti254.2%0
CHP00
81 provinces, 87 electoral districts. Seats allocated by D'Hondt within each district, then summed.
Bloc arithmetic

Neither side has the chamber.

267 is a strong plurality — nearly forty-five percent of the seats. It is not a governing majority, and the AKP has not held one alone since 2015. With the MHP down to 28, the People's Alliance lands on 295.

The opposition side clears 301 on paper and not much more than paper. Yeni Parti, DEM and İYİ share no alliance structure, and İYİ has ruled out arrangements involving DEM. The realistic reading is a parliament where no bloc commands the floor by default.

People's Alliance 295
Six seats below a majority.
AKP 267 · MHP 28
Opposition benches 305
A majority in arithmetic only — no alliance links these three.
Yeni Parti 224 · DEM 56 · İYİ 25
The threshold

The CHP returns nothing.

Türkiye's national threshold has been 7% since 2022. A party clears it either on its own vote or inside an alliance whose combined vote clears it. Miss both and it wins no seats at all, however many votes it banked in a given province.

This run puts the CHP below that line. After the July split — Özgür Özel's removal as chairman by court ruling, and the departure of roughly ninety MPs to found Yeni Parti — the projection has the party's vote following its MPs across, with no alliance to catch what remains. Yeni Parti inherits the bench and the map.

That exclusion is also why the AKP's share of seats outruns its share of votes by roughly nine points. Sub-threshold votes elect nobody, and D'Hondt redistributes that weight toward the largest party in each district.

Geography

Fifty provinces, and a corridor.

The AKP holds the Anatolian interior and the Black Sea coast. Yeni Parti takes the Aegean and Mediterranean coasts, Thrace and the western metropolitan blocks — 23 provinces. DEM leads eight in the south-east.

Map of Türkiye showing projected leading party by province: AKP across central Anatolia and the Black Sea, Yeni Parti along the Aegean and Mediterranean coasts and Thrace, DEM Parti in the south-east.
Leading party by province. A provincial lead is not a majority, and it does not convert cleanly into seats under D'Hondt.
Method

How this was run.

Generated with my Türkiye election simulator: national vote shares entered per party with an ideology and a geographic-spread setting, adjusted by province, then allocated by D'Hondt separately across the 87 electoral districts and summed to 600. The 7% national threshold is applied before allocation.

This is a hypothetical scenario for an election held now. None has been called — the next is scheduled for 2028. Vote shares are illustrative and carry no electoral weight.

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