Turkey is split into 85 Electoral Disrricts which elect a certain number of Members to the Grand National Assembly of Turkey
The Grand National Assembly has a total of 550 seats, which each electoral district allocated a certain number of MPs in proportion to their population.
Provinces electing between 19 and 36 MPs are split into two electoral districts, while any province electing above 36 MPs are divided into three. As the country's three largest provinces, İzmir and Ankara are divided into two subdistricts while İstanbul is divided into three.
The governing Justice and Development Party(AKP)will seek a fourth consecutive term in government. Its leader,Ahmet Davutoglu will seek a full term as Prime Minister of Turkey in his own right, having taken over from Recep Tayyip Erdogan in August 2014
Ruling AKP seeks two-thirds majority in parliament, aiming to replace parliamentary system with a presidential one.AKP is aiming to attain a two-thirds majority in the 550-seat parliament and have the right to put constitutional changes to a referendum, or more ideally 367 seats to bypass a referendum and change the constitution directly within parliament
The Republican People's Party(CHP) will aim to surpass the 30% boundary and ideally aim to form a government, potentially with the help of smaller parties or in their own right.
The CHP's leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu has publicly stated that his party would target 35% of the vote, a rise of 9% from their 2011 result in order to be able to form the next government
The Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), having seen a surge in popular support during the 2014 local elections would ideally aim to participate in a coalition government.
Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) leader Devlet Bahçeli speaks at his party's group meeting in Ankara
The left-wing pro-Kurdish People's Democratic Party( HDP) is hoping to enter parliament for the first time
Co-chairs of the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), Selahattin Demirtas (L) and Figen Yuksekdag
Polls show that the AKP, CHP, MHP and potentially the HDP are the parties most likely to enter parliamentA Coalition Govt has been widely considered as a potential outcome to this election and would be the first such government since the 1999
In April, the CHP announced that it could form a coalition with any party that supports judicial independence and the separation of powers and hinted at a possible CHP-MHP-HDP coalition, since all three parties are fiercely critical of the governing AKP
Over 53 million people in Turkey went to the polls on Sunday to cast their votes in general elections which will reshuffle the 550-seat parliament and also define the new government for the next four years. The electorates, of which 27,248,508 are female and 26,493,330 are male, will need to present a valid identification card with their personal Turkish Republic identity number printed on it before being allowed to vote.
Once the electorate's identity is verified, they are given a ballot paper and a stamp saying either "Evet" (yes) or "Tercih" (preference).
The elections will be held across the country in all of its 81 provinces in 174,236 ballot boxes, and a total of 73,988,955 ballot papers have been printed, packaged and sent to the district election boards.
The participation of Turkish citizens abroad in the June 7 elections was around 35.9 percent, with 1,031,526 out of a total 2,866,970 electorates abroad casting their votes in 54 countries at 112 voting stations set up by the election boards.
While the international polls were closed on the evening of May 31, voting at customs gates and airports for Turkish citizens abroad will continue until 5pm on Sunday
Ruling party wins most votes but loses parliamentary majority
Turkey's ruling party AKP (Freedom and Justice Party) lost majority, facing the lowest vote share ever in more than a decadeOut of over 99.9% counted, Erdogan's AKP fetched 41 % vote, plummetting remarkably from its last year's mark.AKP remains the single largest party and the runner up were the Republican People's Party (CHP) with 25 percent vote. The third lasrgest party was the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) Meanwhile, pro-Kurdish party HDP has for the first time crossed the 10% barrier, and fetched 13% - enough votes to enter the Parliament
The AKP is set to collect only 258 seats in the 550-seat parliament, falling 18 short of the majority.
It is the first time in last 13 years since 2002 that the ruling party has lost majority and will have to enter into an alliance with any other party to be able to govern in a coalition.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who has been at the helm of Turkey's politics since 2003, chose to become the president last year in the hope of rewriting the constitution after this election, expecting a full-throttle victory. However, Turks obviously did not want this.
The opposition parties including the CHP and the MHP hailed the results, calling it as "marking an end of an era".
The CHP spokesperson Haluk Koç said Erdoğan was the real loser of the election. "The real winner of this election is democracy. Turkey has won, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has lost,"
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