The Felicity Party has not been particularly successful electorally, polling just 2.5% of the vote in the
2002 general elections, thereby failing to pass the 10% threshold necessary to gain representation in the
Turkish Grand National Assembly. It was slightly more successful in the local elections of 29 March 2004, winning 4.1% of the vote and a number of mayoralties, although none of any particular significance. In the
2011 election they were reduced to 1.24% on the vote. During the period,
Recai Kutan (20 July 2001 – 11 May 2003 and again 30 January 2004 – 29 March 2008),
Necmettin Erbakan (11 May 2003 – 30 January 2004 and again from 17 October 2010 till his death on 27 February 2011) and
Numan Kurtulmuş (26 October 2008 – 1 October 2010) were leaders. In
June 2015 elections it won 2.06% of the votes.
National Alliance In preparation for the
June 2015 general election, the Felicity Party stated that it was open to negotiate an electoral alliance with other parties such as the
Great Union Party (BBP) and the larger
Nationalist Movement Party (MHP). Although the MHP later announced that it was not willing to form an electoral alliance, the Felicity Party (SP) and BBP agreed upon a new alliance in order to increase their chances of surpassing the
election threshold of 10% to gain representation in
Parliament. The new alliance was named the
National Alliance (Millî İttifak). The
Nation and Justice Party (MİLAD) also expressed their intention to join the alliance, but when they were only given top spots on the candidate lists in only 4 electoral districts, MİLAD withdrew and was unable to contest the election for not sending their own party lists to the
Supreme Electoral Council on time. The candidate lists were drawn up such that BBP candidates were placed top in electoral districts in which they won more votes than the SP in 2011, while SP candidates were placed top in provinces in which the SP had beaten the BBP in 2011. This meant that an SP candidate was placed first in 55 provinces, while a BBP candidate was placed first in 30. The remaining positions subsequently alternated between SP and BBP candidates. SP leader
Mustafa Kamalak was selected as the first candidate for
İstanbul's 1st electoral district while BBP leader
Mustafa Destici was selected as the first candidate for
Ankara's 2nd electoral district.
Nation Alliance The party participated in the
Nation Alliance in the
2018 general elections with the
Republican People's Party (CHP),
Good Party (İYİ), and
Democrat Party (DP). In 2022, the party took part in the establishment of the
Table of Six. It received 10 deputies from CHP's list in the
2023 parliamentary election, and supported
Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu's candidacy in the
2023 presidential election.
Since 2023 On July 6, 2023, SP and the
Future Party formed a
parliamentary group under SP's banner, and competed in the
2024 local election in an electoral alliance. Saadet received 1.09%, and Gelecek 0.07%, of the electorate. == Political positions ==