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The first public opinion poll conducted since the launch of the Yeni Party (New Party) shows the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party) leading with 32.5% support, followed by the New Party in second place with 19.4%, while the Republican People's Party (CHP) fell to third place with 11.8%, according to a survey released by ORC Research.
The survey, conducted by ORC Research between July 27 and 29, 2026, asked 1,920 respondents across 26 provinces: "If there were a general election this Sunday, which party would you vote for?" According to the results, the AK Party placed first with 32.5% support. The New Party, one of the newest entrants to Turkish politics, placed second with 19.4%. The CHP, under the leadership of Kemal Kilicdaroglu following the party's return to his leadership through a court ruling, placed third with 11.8%.
The remaining parties polled as follows: the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party) at 8.5%, the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) at 8.1%, the IYI (Good) Party at 5.6%, the Victory Party (Zafer Partisi) at 3.8%, the Great Union Party (Buyuk Birlik Partisi, BBP) at 3.4%, the Felicity Party (Saadet) at 2.2%, the New Welfare Party (Yeniden Refah Partisi) at 2%, and other parties combined at 2.7%.
The poll marks one of the first published surveys conducted after the formal establishment of the New Party.
Turkish politician Ozgur Ozel formed a 91-seat bloc, pushing Türkiye’s founding party into fifth place and forcing Parliament to reorganize around a new opposition order.
Türkiye’s main opposition changed hands Friday, July 24, without voters casting a ballot.
Ozel, the court-ousted chairperson of the CHP, resigned from the century-old party alongside 90 other lawmakers and established the New Party.
Within hours, the new organization had become Parliament’s second-largest force, while the CHP, the party founded by Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, lost the main opposition position it had held for decades.
The shift was immediate and unusually sweeping.
The ruling AK Party remains the largest party with 277 lawmakers, but the New Party now follows with 91.
The pro-Kurdish DEM Party has 56 seats, the MHP has 46, and the CHP has fallen from 135 to 44, placing it fifth overall.
Parliament currently has 592 serving members in a chamber designed for 600.
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