Turkey goes to the polls on Sunday to elect its new parliament. The country has an unusual electoral system, which requires a party to win at least 10% of the national vote to enter parliament – the highest threshold of any country in the world. This means that if a party wins 40 seats but receives only 9.55% of the national vote, as the True Path party (DYP) did in the 2002 elections, it forfeits those 40 seats, which are then reallocated to the larger parties.
Click below to discover how the threshold has affected Turkish elections and how this voting system would change the UK, German and Australian parliaments.
