Turkey Election Vote Tracker: Follow Live Results

More than 64 million people were eligible to vote to elect a president and a parliament for a five-year term.

With more than 98 percent of the polls open, unofficial preliminary results show that President Erdogan’s vote share is just below 50 percent, according to the state-run Anadolu Agency.

As things are, the turkish presidential election It goes to a second round on May 28.

More than 64 million people were eligible to vote to elect a president and a parliament for a five-year term.

He results of the choices will be displayed below as soon as they are available.

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How voting works in Türkiye

In July 2018, a month after Erdogan won the presidency, Turkey moved from a parliamentary system to a presidential one, abolishing the office of prime minister. Presidential and parliamentary elections are held on the same day every five years.

There are three presidential candidates: Recep Tayyip Erdogan (AK Party), Kemal Kilicdaroglu (CHP) and Sinan Ogan (ATA).

Any candidate who can get more than half of the presidential votes on May 14 will be the winner. If neither candidate can secure that, there will be a runoff between the two main contenders two weeks later.

electoral changes 2022

In a law passed by parliament in April 2022, the electoral threshold was lowered from 10 percent to seven percent.

More importantly, the amendments changed the way seats are distributed among the member parties of an alliance.

In the past, parliamentary seats were allocated according to the total votes obtained by an alliance through lists of common candidates prepared by allied political parties.

With the changes, seats will be allocated according to the votes that each party receives individually.

main candidates

Recep Tayyip Erdogan, 69 years old

Justice and Development Party (known as AK Party)
Popular Alliance candidate

• The current president has been in power for 20 years, nine as president.
• He was Prime Minister from 2003 to 2014 and Mayor of Istanbul from 1994 to 1998.
• Seeking a third consecutive presidential term in the May 14 elections.
• This could be his most challenging election as voters worry about the economy and earthquake damage.

Kemal Kilicdaroglu, 74 years old

Cumhuriyet Halk Partesi (CHP, known as the Republican People’s Party)
National Alliance candidate

• He has led the CHP for more than a decade.
• Before politics, he was a specialist in the Ministry of Finance, then he chaired the Social Security Institution for most of the 1990s.
• He presided over a series of electoral defeats in the CHP but is running as a unity candidate for the six-party National Alliance backed by Turkey’s second-largest opposition party, the pro-Kurdish HDP.
• He vows to return Turkey to a “strong parliamentary system.”

Sinan Ogan, 55

ATA Alliance Candidate

• He comes from an academic and development background in international finance.
• Formerly in the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), an ally of Erdogan’s AK Party.
• He was deputy dean of the Azerbaijan State Economic University and representative of the Turkish International Development and Cooperation Agency, 1994-98.
• Elected as MHP Igdır deputy in 2011 and expelled from his party in 2015 for his internal opposition.
• He marks himself as the candidate of the Turkish nationalists.
• He has been accused of having far-right and xenophobic policies, particularly when it comes to Syrian refugees.