2009 Turkish local elections

none Turkey legislative 2004 Turkish local elections 2004 2009 03 29 2014 Turkish local elections 2014 All 16 metropolitan and 2,903 district municipal mayors of TurkeyAll 3,281 provincial and 32,393 municipal councillors of Turkey Mayors Councillors Popular vote^ Percentage Swing Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Poland (cropped).jpg Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Justice and Development Party (Turkey) 14 August 2001 1,762 mayors18,913 councillors 1,452 16,621 15,353,553 38.39% 3.28pp Deniz Baykal headshot.jpg Deniz Baykal CHP 30 September 2000 469 mayors6,023 councillors 506 6,737 9,229,936 23.08% 4.85% Devlet Bahçeli VOA 2015 (cropped).jpg Devlet Bahçeli MHP 6 July 1997 247 mayors3,579 councillors 484 6,419 6,386,279 15.97% 5.52pp 2009 Mahalli İdareler Seçimleri BB.png Winners of the 81 provincial capitals 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. Local elections were held in Turkey 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.Hürriyet Daily News. "Ruling party main loser in local ballot" The election was not contested by Cem Uzan's GP.MSNBC. "Genç Parti yerel seçimlere katılmayacak" The AKP failed to take certain provinces it had publicly targeted, such as Diyarbakır,Hürriyet Daily News. Pro-Kurdish DTP sweeps Diyarbakir İzmir and Urfa,Hürriyet Daily News. "Turkey's AKP loses against independent Fakibaba" and did not achieve its goal of exceeding 47% of the overall vote.Al Jazeera English. "AKP fails to sweep Turkey poll" 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 thumb|Flags of political parties before the Turkish municipal elections in Şile. The most visible ones are Nationalist Movement Party and Justice and Development Party) flags. thumb|CHP (Republican People's Party) election bus before the Turkish municipal elections in Kadıköy, Istanbul Justice and Development Party 15353553 1889 Republican People's Party 9229936 612 Nationalist Movement Party 6386279 414 Democratic Society Party 2277777 235 Felicity Party 2079701 29 Democrat Party 1536847 45 Democratic Left Party 1139878 26 Great Unity Party 943765 18 Motherland Party 304361 4 Independent Turkey Party 167986 1 Workers' Party 114243 0 Communist Party of Turkey 85507 0 Freedom and Solidarity Party 67984 0 Labour Party 48939 1 Nation Party 41818 0 Rights and Freedoms Party 29392 0 People's Ascent Party 6197 0 Liberal Democratic Party 2285 0 Peace and Democracy Party 36 0 Independents 172279 7 943497 48049446 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, 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. Province Party Adana white MHP Adıyaman AKP Afyonkarahisar AKP Ağrı AKP Amasya AKP Ankara AKP Antalya CHP Artvin CHP Aydın CHP Balıkesir white MHP Bilecik AKP Bingöl AKP Bitlis AKP Bolu AKP Burdur AKP Bursa AKP Çanakkale CHP   Province Party Çankırı AKP Çorum AKP Denizli AKP Diyarbakır DTP Edirne CHP Elazığ AKP Erzincan AKP Erzurum AKP Eskişehir DSP Gaziantep AKP Giresun CHP Gümüşhane white MHP Hakkâri DTP Hatay AKP Isparta white MHP 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 white MHP Kahramanmaraş AKP Mardin AKP Muğla CHP Muş AKP Nevşehir AKP Niğde AKP   Province Party Ordu DSP Rize AKP Sakarya AKP Samsun AKP Siirt DTP Sinop CHP Sivas white BBP Tekirdağ CHP Tokat AKP Trabzon AKP Tunceli DTP Şanlıurfa IND. Uşak white MHP Van DTP Yozgat AKP Zonguldak CHP Aksaray AKP   Province Party Bayburt AKP Karaman AKP Kırıkkale AKP Batman DTP Şırnak DTP Bartın white MHP Ardahan AKP Iğdır DTP Yalova white DP Karabük white MHP Kilis AKP Osmaniye white MHP Düzce AKP District elections Elections were also held for district mayors (ilçe başkanı) as well as neighbourhood presidents (muhtar). References Category:Local elections in Turkey Local Category:March 2009 in Turkey