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 NORTHERN CYPRUS (disputed status)

President: Mustafa Akıncı · Prime Minister: Ünal Üstel (UBP) · Governing parties: UBP, DP, YDP
Legislative elections: Assembly, 5-year term, 50 seats, 5% threshold, party-list PR:

  2022 2018 2013 2009
Party Ideology % Seats % Seats % Seats % Seats
Ulusal Birlik Partisi (UBP)
National Unity Party
National conservatism   39,5 24 35,6 21 27,3 14 44,1 26
Cumhuriyetçi Türk Partisi (CTP)
Republican Turkish Party (a)
Social democracy
United Cyprus 
32,0 18 20,9 12 38,4 21 29,2 15
Demokrat Parti (DP)
Democratic Party (b)
Conservatism   7,4 3 7,8 3 23,1 12 10,7 5
Halkın Partisi (HP)
People's Party
Centrism   6,7 3 17,1 9 - - - -
Yeni Doğuş Partisi (YDP)
New Dawn Party
Nationalism   6,4 2 7,0 2 - - - -
Toplumcu Demokrasi Partisi (TDP)
Communal Democracy Party
Social democracy
United Cyprus 
4,4 - 8,6 3 7,4 3 6,9 2
Birlesik Kibris Partisi (BKP)
United Cyprus Party
Socialism
United Cyprus 
- - 2,7 - 3,2 - 2,4 -
Özgürlük ve Reform Partisi (ÖRP)
Freedom and Reform Party
Liberalism  - - - - - - 6,2 2
Others 3,6 - 0,3 - 0,6 - 0,5 -
Total - 50 - 50 - 50 - 50
Turnout 57,6 66,2 69,6 81,4

© 2022 Wolfram Nordsieck. Source: BRTK (www.brtk.net).  For full coverage, click here (1976-present). Notes: (a) 2009/2013: Republican Turkish Party-United Forces (CTP-BG); (b) 2013: Democratic Party-National Forces (DP-UG).