Local elections were held in Turkey on 29 March 2009. The overall winner was the ruling party Justice and Development Party, although the party saw a decline in its vote relative to the 2007 general election. The leading opposition party, the social democratic Kemalist CHP, increased its vote share, as did a number of smaller parties including the SP, DTP and BBP, whose party leader Muhsin Yazıcıoğlu had died in a helicopter crash four days before the election. The third largest party, the Turkish nationalist MHP, enjoyed a more modest vote surge.[1] The election was not contested by Cem Uzan's GP.[2] The AKP failed to take certain provinces it had publicly targeted, such as Diyarbakır,[3] İzmir and Urfa,[4] and did not achieve its goal of exceeding 47% of the overall vote.[5] There was localized election-related fighting in southeastern Turkey, in which five people were reported to have been killed and about a hundred injured.[5]
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All 16 metropolitan and 2,903 district municipal mayors of Turkey All 3,281 provincial and 32,393 municipal councillors of Turkey | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 Winners of the 81 provincial capitals by party. ^ Four different elections in order to elect both types of councillor and mayor were held on the same day. The results shown here are the provincial councillor election results, which best reflect the overall voting intentions of the electorate. See the results section for the full results. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Results
editProvincial assemblies
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| Party | Votes | % | Seats | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Justice and Development Party | 15,353,553 | 38.39 | 1,889 | |
| Republican People's Party | 9,229,936 | 23.08 | 612 | |
| Nationalist Movement Party | 6,386,279 | 15.97 | 414 | |
| Democratic Society Party | 2,277,777 | 5.70 | 235 | |
| Felicity Party | 2,079,701 | 5.20 | 29 | |
| Democrat Party | 1,536,847 | 3.84 | 45 | |
| Democratic Left Party | 1,139,878 | 2.85 | 26 | |
| Great Unity Party | 943,765 | 2.36 | 18 | |
| Motherland Party | 304,361 | 0.76 | 4 | |
| Independent Turkey Party | 167,986 | 0.42 | 1 | |
| Workers' Party | 114,243 | 0.29 | 0 | |
| Communist Party of Turkey | 85,507 | 0.21 | 0 | |
| Freedom and Solidarity Party | 67,984 | 0.17 | 0 | |
| Labour Party | 48,939 | 0.12 | 1 | |
| Nation Party | 41,818 | 0.10 | 0 | |
| Rights and Freedoms Party | 29,392 | 0.07 | 0 | |
| People's Ascent Party | 6,197 | 0.02 | 0 | |
| Liberal Democratic Party | 2,285 | 0.01 | 0 | |
| Peace and Democracy Party | 36 | 0.00 | 0 | |
| Independents | 172,279 | 0.43 | 7 | |
| Total | 39,988,763 | 100.00 | 3,281 | |
| Valid votes | 39,988,763 | 97.69 | ||
| Invalid/blank votes | 943,497 | 2.31 | ||
| Total votes | 40,932,260 | 100.00 | ||
| Registered voters/turnout | 48,049,446 | 85.19 | ||
By province
editMetropolitan provinces are in bold. AKP denotes provinces won by the Justice & Development Party, CHP denotes provinces won by the Republican People's Party, MHP denotes provinces won by the Nationalist Movement Party, DTP denotes provinces won by the Democratic Society Party, BBP denotes provinces won by the Great Union Party, DSP denotes provinces won by the Democratic Left Party and DP denotes provinces won by the Democrat Party.
District elections
editElections were also held for district mayors (ilçe başkanı) as well as neighbourhood presidents (muhtar).
References
edit- ^ Hürriyet Daily News. "Ruling party main loser in local ballot"
- ^ MSNBC. "Genç Parti yerel seçimlere katılmayacak"
- ^ Hürriyet Daily News. Pro-Kurdish DTP sweeps Diyarbakir
- ^ Hürriyet Daily News. "Turkey's AKP loses against independent Fakibaba"
- ^ a b Al Jazeera English. "AKP fails to sweep Turkey poll"