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Local governments have been established to enable local citizens to benefit from public services in the most effective and profitable way. The most distinctive feature of local governments is that they are the administrative units that are affined to democratic government and political participation. This study aims to examine the effects of the application of “the D’Hondt Method with the One-Tenth Election Threshold” and “Quota Candidacy” on local representation in due course of the election of municipal council members specified in the Law No. 2972 on the Election of Local Administrations and Neighborhood Headmen/Mukhtars and Board of Aldermen. The study is designed in three parts. In the first part, historical background of the Law No. 2972 is examined. In this part, the debate that took place in the Turkish parliament on pros and cons of the Law No. 2972 is examined. In the second part, electoral systems (especially d’hondt system) are examined in depth and explained with examples. In the third part, within the framework of data received from the Supreme Election Council on the election dated March 31, 2019, the formation of Municipal Councils of Princes’ Islands and Sultanbeyli in Istanbul will be examined in terms of the political party affiliations that the members of these councils have and the effects of the quota candidacy and local electoral system on this administrative formation. As a result of the study, it was determined that the "the D’Hondt Method with the One-Tenth Election Threshold" and "quota candidacy" applied around the law numbered 2972 negatively affected local representation and caused injustice in representation

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