The outcome of the Turkish general elections after 1983 is shown below. (After the coup d'etat in 1980 all political parties were closed by the military government. See also Turkish general elections before 1980.) In the table below only the percentage of the votes received by the parties which were qualified to send representatives to the parliament are shown. So the summation of percentages may be lower than 100%. The winner is shown in color. The legend of abbreviations is shown at the end of the table. Legent of the abbreviations ANAP:Motherland Party MDP:Nationalist Democracy Party HP:People’s Party DYP:True Path Party RP:Welfare Party Later FP:Virtue Party SHP:Social Democratic Populist Party (after merging of SODEP and HP) DSP:Democratic Left Party CHP:Republican People’s Party (issued from SHP, later merged with SHP) MHP:National Movement Party AKP:Justice and Development Party References General elections in Turkey General, 1980+