{"id":59830,"date":"2018-01-10T09:19:21","date_gmt":"2018-01-10T09:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=59830"},"modified":"2018-01-10T09:20:28","modified_gmt":"2018-01-10T09:20:28","slug":"final-results-of-northern-cyprus-elections-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/final-results-of-northern-cyprus-elections-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"Final results of Northern Cyprus elections announced"},"content":{"rendered":"

The final official results of snap parliamentary elections in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyrpus (TRNC) were announced on Tuesday evening, which confirmed that a coalition was on the cards.<\/h2>\n

The National Unity Party (UBP), led by current Prime Minister Huseyin Ozgurgun, got the most votes, with 35.57 percent, in Sunday\u2019s election, Supreme Election Committee head Narin Sefik said.<\/p>\n

No party won enough votes to emerge as the ruling party.<\/p>\n

The UBP managed to claim 21 seats in the parliament.<\/p>\n

Six of the eight parties running got past the 5 percent threshold needed for representation in parliament.<\/p>\n

Northern Cyprus has over 190,500 eligible voters.<\/p>\n

The capital, Lefkosa, has the most deputies in parliament, with 16, followed by Gazimagusa with 13 deputies, Girne with 10, Iskele with five, Guzelyurt with four, and Lefke with two.<\/p>\n

Since the last general elections of January 2013, the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus has had three coalition governments led by three different prime ministers.<\/p>\n

In November 2017, parliament passed a motion by a vote of 38-2 calling for early elections. Under the motion, general elections originally planned for July 2018 were moved up seven months to Jan. 7.<\/p>\nError, group does not exist! Check your syntax! (ID: 9)<\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The final official results of snap parliamentary elections in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyrpus (TRNC) were announced on Tuesday evening, which confirmed that a coalition was on the cards. The National Unity Party (UBP), led by current Prime Minister Huseyin Ozgurgun, got the most votes, with 35.57 percent, in Sunday\u2019s election, Supreme Election Committee …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":59831,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,118,101,14],"tags":[77843,16579,77842,16581],"class_list":["post-59830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-hot","category-politics","category-world","tag-lefkosa","tag-northern-cyprus","tag-supreme-election-committee","tag-turkish-republic-of-northern-cyprus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}