Local election in Turkey 2009
The 14th local elections of the Republic of Turkey ( Turkish : 14th Mahallî İdareler Seçimi ) took place on March 29, 2009. The eligible voters elected the members of the 81 provincial parliaments, the 16 major city mayors as well as 957 district mayors and 1974 district mayors.
Voting
Voters who live within the boundaries of a major city have the right to cast five votes:
- City Mayor ( Turkish : büyükşehir belediye başkanı )
- Mayor of the city ( Turkish belediye başkanı )
- City Council ( Turkish belediye meclisi )
- Government Parliament ( Turkish il genel meclisi )
- Muhtar (German village chief )
Voters residing within city limits have the right to cast four votes:
- Mayor of the city
- City council
- Provincial Parliament
- Muhtar
Voters who live within village limits have the right to cast two votes:
- Provincial Parliament
- Muhtar
Participating parties
The following is an alphabetical listing of the 20 parties that participated in the elections:
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Election results
voter turnout
| Urns | Voting | valid votes |
Percent turnout |
Eligible voters |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 176,456 | 40.700.111 | 39,819,245 | 84.73% | 48.033.247 |
Mayor of the provincial capitals
Of the 20 participating parties, only seven managed to win one of the 81 provincial capitals. In Şanlıurfa , the former mayor Eşref Ahmet Fakıbaba was the only independent candidate to become mayor. As can also be seen on the map, the CHP is concentrated in the Mediterranean and Aegean region, the DTP in the southeast of the country. In detail, the parties won:
| Political party | Number of mayors |
|---|---|
| ACP | 45 |
| BBP | 1 |
| CHP | 13 |
| DP | 1 |
| DSP | 2 |
| DTP | 8th |
| MHP | 10 |
| Independent | 1 |
County Mayor
In addition to the 81 mayors of the provincial capitals, 957 district mayors (tr .: İlçe ) stood for election:
| Political party | Number of mayors |
|---|---|
| ACP | 447 |
| ANAP | 4th |
| BBP | 3 |
| CHP | 170 |
| DP | 39 |
| DSP | 10 |
| DTP | 50 |
| EMEP | 1 |
| MHP | 129 |
| ÖDP | 1 |
| SP | 23 |
| Independent | 15th |
Provincial Parliaments
The members of the 81 provincial parliaments were elected.
| Art | number |
|---|---|
| Ballot boxes | 173,748 |
| Voters | 43,552,931 |
| Votes cast | 33.211.457 |
| Of which valid | 32.268.496 |
| voter turnout | 76.25% |
| Number of candidates | 3,208 |
Metropolitan administrations
There are 16 major cities in Turkey. In addition to the election of a mayor for the individual districts, a lord mayor or, literally, a city mayor was elected. The results are:
| city | mayor | Political party | Voting share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adapazarı | Zeki Toçoğlu | ACP | 44.8% |
| Adana | Aytaç Durak | MHP | 29.8% |
| Ankara | Melih Gokcek | ACP | 38.5% |
| Antalya | Mustafa Akaydın | CHP | 40.9% |
| Bursa | Recep Altepe | ACP | 47.2% |
| Diyarbakır | Osman Baydemir | DTP | 65.1% |
| Erzurum | Ahmet Küçükler | ACP | 56.9% |
| Eskişehir | Yılmaz Büyükerşen | DSP | 51.5% |
| Gaziantep | Asım Güzelbey | ACP | 53.3% |
| Istanbul | Kadir Topbaş | ACP | 44.7% |
| İzmir | Aziz Kocaoğlu | CHP | 56.2% |
| İzmit | İbrahim Karaosmanoğlu | ACP | 47.5% |
| Kayseri | Mehmet Özhaseki | ACP | 61.0% |
| Konya | Tahir Akyürek | ACP | 68.4% |
| Mersin | Macit Ozcan | CHP | 30.9% |
| Samsun | Yusuf Ziya Yılmaz | ACP | 41.0% |
Miscellaneous
- A few days before the election, the chairman of the BBP, Muhsin Yazıcıoğlu, died in a helicopter crash. His death resulted in his party winning the post of Lord Mayor in Sivas.
- A total of 19 people died on election day and the following days. More than 150 people were injured.
- One week before the election, the AKP candidate for the mayor of Manavgat died. Still, he came first in the election. The office was awarded to the second most successful candidate.
- There are only two women among the 81 mayors of the provincial capitals.
- Murat Karayalçın resigned from his party, the social democrat Halk Partisi , to run for the CHP as a candidate for Ankara's mayor's office. Karayalçın had been mayor of Ankara before, but lost that election to Melih Gökçek.
- The CHP politician Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu , known for his actions against embezzlement and corruption , ran for the mayor's office of Istanbul against Kadir Topbaş . The CHP wanted to win the very important cities of Ankara and Istanbul, but failed.
- The independent mayor of Şanlıurfa Eşref Ahmet Fakıbaba later joined the Saadet Partisi .
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ 29 MART 2009 MAHALLİ İDARELER SEÇİMLERİNE KATILACAK SİYASİ PARTİLERİN BİRLEŞİK OY PUSULASINDAKİ YERLERİ. In: http://www.ysk.gov.tr/ . Yüksek Seçim Kurulu Başkanlığı, January 24, 2009, p. 1 , archived from the original on March 17, 2009 ; Retrieved March 23, 2009 (Turkish).
- ↑ Seçim bilançosu: En az 19 olü, 151 yaralı article from the newspaper Radikal of April 2, 2009
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