Early
general elections were held in the
Ottoman Empire in April 1912. Due to electoral fraud and brutal electioneering, which earned the elections the nickname
Sopali Seçimler ("Election of
Clubs"), the ruling
Committee of Union and Progress won 269 of the 275 seats in the
Chamber of Deputies, whilst the opposition
Liberal Entente (also known as the Freedom and Accord Party or the Liberal Union) won only the remaining six seats.