Turkey Election Istanbul Results

The election was beset by a number of controversies including an unexplained results blackout on election night just when the opposition were on the verge of victory in istanbul.

Turkey election istanbul results. Turkey s opposition has dealt president tayyip erdogan a stinging blow by winning control of istanbul in a re run mayoral election breaking his aura of invincibility and delivering a message from. In the march 31 municipal elections he and his party also lost ankara the. A political gamble by turkey s president recep tayyip erdogan backfired spectacularly on sunday as the opposition won a resounding victory in the repeat of an istanbul mayoral election.

After the preliminary results of turkey s municipal elections were announced on sunday night. Turkish president recep tayyip erdogan s ak party is contesting the slim opposition victory in the country s biggest city istanbul. P resident recep tayyip erdogan the strongman of turkish politics and a former mayor of istanbul has lost istanbul.

It was a re run of the march 2019 mayoral election which was annulled by the supreme electoral council ysk on 6 may 2019. The june 2019 istanbul mayoral election was held on 23 june 2019. The mayor s job was the springboard for erdogan s own political career and if imamoglu.

The country s capital and might lose istanbul turkey s largest city in local elections. Losing istanbul is much more than ceding control of turkey s largest city and commercial powerhouse. Sunday s municipal elections also delivered opposition chp wins.

The istanbul mayoral election where chp candidate ekrem i̇mamoğlu defeated akp candidate and former prime minister binali yıldırım by just under 14 000 votes 0.