Turkish election
For the five-year election of a president and parliament, more than 64 million people were eligible to vote.
According to the state-run Anadolu Agency, with more over 98 percent of the ballot boxes unsealed, preliminary unofficial figures place President Erdogan’s vote share at slightly under 50 percent.
The Turkish presidential election will take place in a run-off on May 28 as of right now.
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For the five-year election of a president and parliament, more than 64 million people were eligible to vote.
Results will be displayed below.
Turkish voting procedures
In July 2018, one month after Erdogan was elected president, eliminating the position of prime minister. Every five years, elections for both the president and parliament are conducted on the same day.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan (AK Party), Kemal Kilicdaroglu (CHP), and Sinan Ogan (ATA) are the three front-runners for the presidency.
On May 14, the winner will be vote. The two front-runners will compete in a second run-off two weeks later if none of them can win that.
Election changes in 2022
The election threshold was lowered from 10% to 7% by a bill that the parliament approved in April 2022.
More significantly, the reforms altered how seats are apportioned among alliance member parties.
In the past, parliamentary seats were distributed via shared candidate lists created by associated political parties in accordance with the overall number of votes an alliance garnered.
With the modifications, the seats will be distributed obtains separately.
Candidates for the People’s Alliance include Recep Tayyip Erdoan, 69, of the Adalet ve Kalknma Partisi (Justice and Development Party, or AK Party).
Nine of the current president’s 20 years in office have been spent as president.
was Istanbul’s mayor from 1994 to 1998 .
As president on May 14.
Given the voters’ concerns on the economy and earthquake damage, this election may be his most difficult to win.
Kemal Klçdarolu, 74, is a candidate for the Nation Alliance from Cumhuriyet Halk Partesi (CHP), also known as the Republican People’s Party.
has been the CHP’s leader for almost ten years.
He worked in the finance ministry before entering politics, and during the majority of the 1990s, he presided over the Social Insurance Institution.
ruled the CHP through a series of electoral failures, but is now standing as a unifying candidate for the six-party Nation Alliance with support from the pro-Kurdish HDP, Turkey’s second-largest opposition party.
guarantees the restoration of a “strong parliamentary system” in Turkey.
