2004 Turkish local elections

none 2004 Turkish local elections Turkey legislative 1999 Turkish local elections 1999 2004 03 28 2009 Turkish local elections 2009 All 16 metropolitan and 3,193 district municipal mayors of TurkeyAll 3,208 provincial and 34,477 municipal councillors of Turkey Mayors Councillors Popular vote^ Percentage Swing Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Turkish Prime Minister, in Brussels (cropped).jpg Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Justice and Development Party (Turkey) 14 August 2001 New party 1,762 18,913 13,477,287 41.67% 41.67% Deniz Baykal headshot.jpg Deniz Baykal d50000 CHP 30 September 2000 373 mayors, 11.08% 469 6,023 5,882,810 18.23% 7.15% Devlet Bahçeli VOA 2015 (cropped).jpg Devlet Bahçeli 870000 MHP 6 July 1997 247 mayors, 3,579 councillors, 10.45% 247 3,579 3,372,249 10.45% 6.72% 2004 Mahalli İdareler Seçimleri BB.png 430px Results map showing the winners of the 81 provincial capitals of Turkey by party.^ Four different elections in order to elect both types of councillor and mayor were held on the same day. The results shown here are the provincial councillor election results, which best reflect the overall voting intentions of the electorate. See the results section for the full results. The Turkish local elections of 2004 were held throughout the eighty-one Provinces of Turkey on 28 March 2004 in order to elect both mayors and councillors to local government positions. All 16 metropolitan and 3,193 district municipalities were up for election, while 3,208 provincial and 34,477 municipal councillors were also elected. More than 50,000 neighbourhood presidents (muhtars) were also elected, though these do not have any political affiliations. With almost 42 percent of votes across the country, the ruling AKP increased the 34 percent it won in the 2002 national parliamentary elections by an extra 8 percent. The only opposition party with representation in Parliament, the Kemalist Republican People's Party (CHP), received 19 percent of the votes. The traditional parties of the Turkish establishment lost further ground. The Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), despite suffering a loss of 6% in their popular vote share, won above 10% of the votes. This bode well for their 2007 general election prospects, since 10% is the election threshold needed to win seats in Parliament. In the event, the CHP was only able to maintain a degree of support in the provincial regions on the Turkish west coast. Among the four major cities the party was only able to win İzmir, with the AKP winning a majority in the cities of Istanbul, Adana and the Turkish capital, Ankara. The AKP also took the tourist centre Antalya, where the head of the CHP, Deniz Baykal, was the party's candidate. The main political arm of the Kurdish nationalist movement, the Democratic People's Party (DEHAP), entered these elections in a coalition with five small socialist parties, yet together these parties received fewer votes (5 percent) than the DEHAP received alone in the 2002 elections (6.1 percent).Local Elections in Turkey: A Landslide Victory for the Incumbent AKP https://web.archive.org/web/20110708111415/http://www.cagaptay.com/663/local-elections-in-turkey-a-landslide-victory-for 2011-07-08 Soner Cagaptay Results Provincial assemblies Justice and Development Party 13447287 2276 Republican People's Party 5882810 392 Nationalist Movement Party 3372249 178 True Path Party 3216213 156 Social Democratic People's Party 1662280 129 Felicity Party 1297681 19 Young Party 839856 4 Motherland Party 807761 26 Democratic Left Party 683266 9 Great Unity Party 374125 7 Independent Turkey Party 154495 0 Communist Party of Turkey 85178 0 Workers' Party 79774 0 New Turkey Party 79584 0 Labour Party 18695 1 Freedom and Solidarity Party 12379 0 Nation Party 8711 0 Democratic Party 7837 2 Bright Turkey Party 3872 0 Independents 234443 9 942961 43552931 Supreme Election Council 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, MHP denotes provinces won by the Nationalist Movement Party, DSP denotes provinces won by the Democratic Left Party, DYP denotes provinces won by the True Path Party and SP denotes provinces won by the Felicity Party. Province Party Adana AKP Adıyaman AKP Afyonkarahisar AKP Ağrı AKP Amasya AKP Ankara AKP Antalya AKP Artvin CHP Aydın AKP Balıkesir AKP Bilecik AKP Bingöl AKP Bitlis AKP Bolu AKP Burdur AKP Bursa AKP Çanakkale CHP   Province Party Çankırı AKP Çorum AKP Denizli AKP Diyarbakır DGB Edirne CHP Elazığ DYP Erzincan AKP Erzurum AKP Eskişehir DSP Gaziantep AKP Giresun AKP Gümüşhane white MHP Hakkâri DGB Hatay AKP Isparta AKP Mersin CHP Istanbul AKP   Province Party İzmir CHP Kars AKP Kastamonu white MHP Kayseri AKP Kırklareli CHP Kırşehir AKP Kocaeli AKP Konya AKP Kütahya AKP Malatya AKP Manisa AKP Kahramanmaraş AKP Mardin SP Muğla CHP Muş AKP Nevşehir AKP Niğde white MHP   Province Party Ordu DSP Rize AKP Sakarya AKP Samsun AKP Siirt AKP Sinop AKP Sivas AKP Tekirdağ AKP Tokat AKP Trabzon CHP Tunceli DGB Şanlıurfa AKP Uşak AKP Van AKP Yozgat AKP Zonguldak AKP Aksaray AKP   Province Party Bayburt AKP Karaman AKP Kırıkkale AKP Batman DGB Şırnak DGB Bartın DSP Ardahan IND. Iğdır white MHP Yalova AKP Karabük AKP Kilis AKP Osmaniye AKP Düzce AKP References 2004 Category:2004 elections in Turkey Category:March 2004 in Turkey