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Political literature is part of citizenship education. Students learn how to learn and how to develop themselves in public life through knowledge, skills and values that can be defined by 'political literature'. Teachers are the most effective people to educate citizens. The aim of this study is to determine the level of political literacy of social information teachers candidates. The research has used a screening model. The reason for the use of the scan model is because it shows the current state as it is. In the study, the "Political Reading Measurement Tool" developed by Faiz (2016) was applied. The sample of the study is determined by the maximum sample type. Example in seven geographical areas, a total of 1187 social information teachers are candidates. Thro the analysis of the data, t Test for non-related samples, Kruskal Wallis H Test,MannWhitney U Test, one-way variance analysis and visual statistics were performed. According to the researchers’ findings, the knowledge, attitudes and skills of the teacher candidates are at the middle level. The relationship between the components that form political literature has been found to be a positive, low-level and meaningful relationship between knowledge and tendencies; a positive high-level and meaningful relationship between knowledge and skills; a positive, high-level and meaningful relationship between attitudes and skills. Keywords: Political literature; Citizenship education; Teacher candidates; Social-state information.