Turkish people are set to go to the polls on Sunday, November 1, in a snap election which is hoped to end months of tensions in the country.

Turkish people are set to go to the polls on Sunday, November 1, in a snap election which is hoped to end months of tensions in the country.

Political parties staged their final rallies on Saturday on the eve of the vote, while many are waiting to see whether the Justice and Development Party (AKP), founded by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, would be able to garner enough votes to govern alone.

Polls open in the east of Turkey at 7:00 a.m. local time (0400 GMT) and an hour later in the west, as 54 million Turks are registered to vote.

Voters last went to the polls in June but no party managed to win enough seats to form a government, which in August forced Erdogan to call fresh election after coalition talks did not yield any results.

Opinion polls have shown that the new election is very likely to repeat the shock of the June vote, which ended the AKP’s majority after 13 years of single-party rule.

The AKP is anticipated to receive between 40 and 43 percent of the vote, which means it either has to form a shaky coalition that may not last long or the country should hold another election.

Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu has described the vote a “referendum on Turkey's future.”

“Turkey needs a strong and shrewd government at such a critical time,” Davutoglu stated.