Local elections were held in
Turkey
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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
A province is an administrative division within a country or state. The term derives from the ancient Roman , which was the major territorial and administrative unit of the Roman Empire's territorial possessions outside Italy. The term ''provi ...
it had publicly targeted, such as
Diyarbakır
Diyarbakır is the largest Kurdish-majority city in Turkey. It is the administrative center of Diyarbakır Province.
Situated around a high plateau by the banks of the Tigris river on which stands the historic Diyarbakır Fortress, it is ...
,
İzmir
İzmir is the List of largest cities and towns in Turkey, third most populous city in Turkey, after Istanbul and Ankara. It is on the Aegean Sea, Aegean coast of Anatolia, and is the capital of İzmir Province. In 2024, the city of İzmir had ...
and
Urfa,
['']Hürriyet
''Hürriyet'' (, ''Liberty'') is a major List of newspapers in Turkey, Turkish newspaper, founded in 1948. it had the highest circulation of any newspaper in Turkey at around 319,000. ''Hürriyet'' combines entertainment with news coverage and ...
Daily News.'
"Turkey's AKP loses against independent Fakibaba"
/ref> and did not achieve its goal of exceeding 47% of the overall vote.[Al Jazeera English]
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There was localized election-related fighting in southeastern Turkey, in which five people were reported to have been killed and about a hundred injured.
Results
Provincial assemblies
By province
Metropolitan provinces are in bold. AKP denotes provinces won by the Justice & Development Party, CHP denotes provinces won by the Republican People's Party
The Republican People's Party (RPP; , CHP ) is a Kemalism, Kemalist and Social democracy, social democratic political party in Turkey. It is the oldest List of political parties in Turkey, political party in Turkey, founded by Mustafa Kemal ...
, MHP denotes provinces won by the Nationalist Movement Party
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, 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
Elections were also held for district
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mayors (''ilçe başkanı'') as well as neighbourhood
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presidents ('' muhtar'').
References
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Local elections in Turkey
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March 2009 in Turkey