The Cumulative Level Analysis of the Votes of the Republican People's Party and the Review of the Electoral Geography of the Central-Left in Turkey

The 2002 general election marked a turning point in turkish politics, result-ing in a massive overhaul of the party system, which weakened all existing parties tre-mendously. in this context, the newly formed akp rose to power, launching turkey into a new era of transformation. on the other end of the scale was the only opposition party that emerged rather successfully from the election: the chp. throughout the decade that followed, the balance of power did not alter. this article aims to analyze the political dynamics that surround the chp by constructing an aggregate level analysis of its electoral environment since the 1950s in order to answer some of the questions relating to the redesign of the staunch dominant two-party model that currently prevails.