At the 2007 general election, CHP ran in alliance with the Democratic Left Party. The CHP suffered a heavy defeat, getting 7,300,234 votes (20.85% of the total). The CHP, DSP, and YTP combined received 21.77% of the votes in the 2002 election. The party finished first only in the three Thracian provinces of Edirne, Tekirdağ, Kırklareli, as well as two provinces on the Aegean coast, which were İzmir and Muğla. With these results, 112 candidates (13 being DSP candidates) were elected to the Grand National Assembly of Turkey from the CHP electoral sheet, compared to 178 in 2002.