Erdogan suffers setbacks in local polls
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President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is on track to lose control of Turkey’s two largest cities for the first time in his 16 years in power, after voters punished him for a painful economic downturn
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ELECTION RESULTS BY ALLIANCES

Erdogan’s AKP-led alliance captured 51.7% of nationwide vote

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51.63% 23.9 million votes
People’s Alliance
Justice and Development Party (AKP) Nationalist Movement Party (MHP)
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37.55%
17.4 million
Nation Alliance
Republican People’s Party (CHP)
Iyi Party
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10.82%
Others
5.0 million
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Istanbul: CHP’s Ekrem Imamoglu leading by less than 0.5%, but results
of more than 80 ballot boxes challenged

Ankara: CHP candidate Mansur Yavas won nearly 51% of votes

TURKEY

Votes counted: 99.83% Turnout: 84.5%

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MAYORSHIP RESULTS
AKP 
CHP
MHP
Communist Party of Turkey (TKP)
People’s Democratic Party (HDP) 
Independent
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