2009 Turkish local elections

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.^[1] The election was not contested by Cem Uzan's GP.^[2] The AKP failed to take certain provinces it had publicly targeted, such as Diyarbakır,^[3] İzmir and Urfa,^[4] and did not achieve its goal of exceeding 47% of the overall vote.^[5] There was localized election-related fighting in southeastern Turkey, in which five people were reported to have been killed and about a hundred injured.^[5]

2009 Turkish local elections

← 2004 March 29, 2009 (2009-03-29) 2014 →
All 16 metropolitan and 2,903 district municipal mayors of Turkey All 3,281 provincial and 32,393 municipal councillors of Turkey
Majority party Minority party Third party   Leader Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Deniz Baykal Devlet Bahçeli Party AK Party CHP MHP Leader since 14 August 2001 30 September 2000 6 July 1997 Last election 1,762 mayors 18,913 councillors 469 mayors 6,023 councillors 247 mayors 3,579 councillors Mayors 1,452 506 484 Councillors 16,621 6,737 6,419 Popular vote^ 15,353,553 9,229,936 6,386,279 Percentage 38.39% 23.08% 15.97% Swing 3.28pp 4.85% 5.52pp
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.

Results

Provincial assemblies

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.

CHP (Republican People's Party) election bus before the Turkish municipal elections in Kadıköy, Istanbul

Party		Votes	%	Seats
	Justice and Development Party	15,353,553	38.39	1,889
	Republican People's Party	9,229,936	23.08	612
	Nationalist Movement Party	6,386,279	15.97	414
	Democratic Society Party	2,277,777	5.70	235
	Felicity Party	2,079,701	5.20	29
	Democrat Party	1,536,847	3.84	45
	Democratic Left Party	1,139,878	2.85	26
	Great Unity Party	943,765	2.36	18
	Motherland Party	304,361	0.76	4
	Independent Turkey Party	167,986	0.42	1
	Workers' Party	114,243	0.29	0
	Communist Party of Turkey	85,507	0.21	0
	Freedom and Solidarity Party	67,984	0.17	0
	Labour Party	48,939	0.12	1
	Nation Party	41,818	0.10	0
	Rights and Freedoms Party	29,392	0.07	0
	People's Ascent Party	6,197	0.02	0
	Liberal Democratic Party	2,285	0.01	0
	Peace and Democracy Party	36	0.00	0
	Independents	172,279	0.43	7
Total		39,988,763	100.00	3,281
Valid votes		39,988,763	97.69
Invalid/blank votes		943,497	2.31
Total votes		40,932,260	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		48,049,446	85.19

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 MHP Adıyaman AKP Afyonkarahisar AKP Ağrı AKP Amasya AKP Ankara AKP Antalya CHP Artvin CHP Aydın CHP Balıkesir 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 MHP Hakkâri DTP Hatay AKP Isparta MHP Mersin CHP Istanbul AKP

Province Party İzmir CHP Kars AKP Kastamonu MHP Kayseri AKP Kırklareli CHP Kırşehir AKP Kocaeli AKP Konya AKP Kütahya AKP Malatya AKP Manisa 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 BBP Tekirdağ CHP Tokat AKP Trabzon AKP Tunceli DTP Şanlıurfa IND. Uşak MHP Van DTP Yozgat AKP Zonguldak CHP Aksaray AKP

Province Party Bayburt AKP Karaman AKP Kırıkkale AKP Batman DTP Şırnak DTP Bartın MHP Ardahan AKP Iğdır DTP Yalova DP Karabük MHP Kilis AKP Osmaniye MHP Düzce AKP

District elections

Elections were also held for district mayors (ilçe başkanı) as well as neighbourhood presidents (muhtar).