(MENAFN- Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) With more than 80 percent of votes counted, the initial results of the Turkish elections showed Sunday that the Justice and Development Party (AKP) came first with 50.7 percent, winning 326 seats.
Republican People's Party came the second place with 23.8 percent, getting 126 seats, Anadolu Agency reported.
Nationalist Movement Party came third with 11.7 percent, winning 42 seats and Peoples' Democratic Party won 56 seats, it said.
The results enable the AKP to form a government alone in line with the constitution which provides for getting 276 seats out of the 550-seat parliament for this move.
More than 54 million Turks were eligible to vote in the elections and a total of 175,006 polling stations were open and nearly a million Turks living abroad cast their ballots at 113 embassies and consulates.
Today's elections were held as no party won an overall majority and coalition talks failed to produce a government by the 45-day deadline initiated when President Recep Tayyip Erdogan asked Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu to form a government on July 9.
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