(1st Article of Law 2234, as amended on 17 May 1979) Political parties those have at least one member elected from their list for one of the legislation councils in the last Parliamentary Election and bye-elections, or those determined and announced by the Supreme Board of Elections as their organizational bodies within that province and district complies with the fourth paragraph of the 14th Article, each hold a representative in the province and District Electoral Boards. (Annex second sentence: 1st Article of Law 5980, on 8 April 2010) Furthermore, among the political parties running in the elections, the four political parties who have received the highest number of votes in the last parliamentary elections and political parties who have groups in the Grand National Assembly of Turkey can assign one principal and one alternate representative to the Supreme Board of Elections, provided that they are authorized in writing by the leader of that political party. These representatives participate to the operations and meetings of the board but do not have the right to vote. However, when it occurs that a certain party is not eligible to run in the elections in that electoral district due to the announcement made by the Supreme Board of Elections according to the eleventh paragraph of 14th Article, the party loses the right to hold a representative in these boards.

(1) Refer to annex articles 1 and 5 for the implementation of this provision.
(2) With Article 2 of Law 5749 dated 13 March 2008, annex paragraph (13) was added following paragraph (12) and the number of former paragraph (13) was changed to (14).

In case political party representatives comment on the affairs being discussed, the board consults and takes the decision amongst its members after listening these comments and informs the party representatives concerning the final decision.

The absence of the party representatives in the meetings does not stop the discussion of the affairs.