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Article 7
 

Bye-Election:


In case Turkish Grand National Assembly is somehow deprived of its members, a bye-election is conducted.


Bye-elections are conducted once in every election period and they can not be held unless thirty months passed after the general elections. However, Turkish Grand National Assembly may decide to hold bye-elections in three months, in cases the number of empty member seats have reached to five percent of the total seats.


Bye-elections can not be held within the year prior to the general elections.
(Annex: 17th Article of Law 4778, on 2 January 2003.) In case a province or a constituency loses all of its members in the parliament, a bye-election is conducted in that constituency on the first Sunday that follows the ninety day period after the deprivation of memberships, however the situations stated above are excluded from this provision.