Turkish local elections, 2009

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March 29, 2009 (2009-03-29)

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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

	Majority party	Minority party	Third party

Leader	Recep Tayyip Erdoğan	Deniz Baykal	Devlet Bahçeli
Party	AK Party	CHP	MHP
Leader since	14 August 2001	30 September 2000	6 July 1997
Last election	1,762 mayors, 18,913 councillors, 41.67%	469 mayors, 6,023 councillors, 18.23%	247 mayors, 3,579 councillors, 10.45%
Mayors	1,452	506	484
Councillors	16,621	6,737	6,419
Popular vote^	15,353,553	9,229,936	6,386,279
Percentage	38.39%	23.08%	15.97%
Swing	3.28%	4.85%	5.52%

Results map showing the winners of the 81 provincial capitals of Turkey 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.

Turkey held local elections 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. The election was not contested by Cem Uzan's GP. The AKP failed to take certain provinces it had publicly targeted, such as Diyarbakır,İzmir and Urfa, and did not achieve its goal of exceeding 47% of the overall vote. There was localized election-related fighting in southeastern Turkey, in which five people were reported to have been killed and about a hundred injured.

The provisional results for provincial councils (Turkish: il genel meclisi) are given below:

Elections were also held for district mayors (ilçe başkanı) as well as neighbourhood presidents (muhtar).

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