Election Of Turkey 2019

Presidential elections were held to elect the president of turkey using a two round system.

Election of turkey 2019. Turkish local elections 2019. General elections were held throughout turkey on 24 june 2018. Sunday s municipal elections also delivered opposition chp wins.

Originally due on 3 november 2019 president recep tayyip erdoğan announced on 18 april 2018 that the vote was being brought forward. April 4 2019 6 12 am edt p resident recep tayyip erdogan the strongman of turkish politics and a former mayor of istanbul has lost istanbul. Parliamentary elections took place to elect 600 members of parliament to the grand national assembly of turkey.

The june 2019 istanbul mayoral election was held on 23 june 2019. To participate in the distribution of seats a party must obtain at least 10 of the votes cast at the national level as well as a percentage of votes in the contested district according to a complex formula and votes for parties not seated are redistributed to the party that won the most votes. The grand national assembly of turkey has 600 members elected for a four year term by a system based on closed list proportional representation according to the d hondt method.

On 23 june 2019 turkey s ruling party lost control of istanbul to opposition candidate ekrem i̇mamoğlu a member of the repub lican people s party chp. A total of 30 metropolitan and 1 351 district municipal mayors alongside 1 251 provincial and 20 500 municipal councillors were elected in addition to numerous local non partisan positions such as neighbourhood wardens muhtars and elderly people s councils. The turkish local elections of 2019 were held on sunday 31 march 2019 throughout the 81 provinces of turkey.

Ekrem imamoglu of the republican peoples party chp gives a victory speech after winning the istanbul mayoral rerun election on june 23 2019 in istanbul turkey james rothwell 23 june 2019 7. In the march 31 municipal elections he and his party. The original election had resulted in a narrow 0 2 margin of victory for opposition candidate ekrem i̇mamoğlu causing the governing justice and development party akp to successfully petition for a re run.

Turkish president recep tayyip erdogan s ak party is contesting the slim opposition victory in the country s biggest city istanbul. This followed an electoral battle of more than six months which included the period of campaigning for the local election of 31 march and the rerun election in istanbul on 23 june.