2004 Turkish local elections

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All 16 metropolitan and 3,193 district municipal mayors of Turkey
All 3,208 provincial and 34,477 municipal councillors of Turkey
|  | Majority party  | Minority party  | Third party

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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  | New party | 373 mayors, 11.08%  | 247 mayors, 3,579 councillors, 10.45%
Mayors  | 1,762 | 469  | 247
Councillors  | 18,913 | 6,023  | 3,579
Popular vote^  | 13,477,287 | 5,882,810  | 3,372,249
Percentage  | 41.67% | 18.23%  | 10.45%
Swing  | 41.67%  | 7.15%  | 6.72%

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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.

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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 Izmir, 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).[1]

## Results

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### Provincial assemblies

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Party| Votes| %| Seats

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| Justice and Development Party| 13,447,287| 41.67| 2,276
| Republican People's Party| 5,882,810| 18.23| 392
| Nationalist Movement Party| 3,372,249| 10.45| 178
| True Path Party| 3,216,213| 9.97| 156
| Social Democratic People's Party| 1,662,280| 5.15| 129
| Felicity Party| 1,297,681| 4.02| 19
| Young Party| 839,856| 2.60| 4
| Motherland Party| 807,761| 2.50| 26
| Democratic Left Party| 683,266| 2.12| 9
| Great Unity Party| 374,125| 1.16| 7
| Independent Turkey Party| 154,495| 0.48| 0
| Communist Party of Turkey| 85,178| 0.26| 0
| Workers' Party| 79,774| 0.25| 0
| New Turkey Party| 79,584| 0.25| 0
| Labour Party| 18,695| 0.06| 1
| Freedom and Solidarity Party| 12,379| 0.04| 0
| Nation Party| 8,711| 0.03| 0
| Democratic Party| 7,837| 0.02| 2
| Bright Turkey Party| 3,872| 0.01| 0
| Independents| 234,443| 0.73| 9
Total| 32,268,496| 100.00| 3,208
Valid votes| 32,268,496| 97.16|
Invalid/blank votes| 942,961| 2.84|
Total votes| 33,211,457| 100.00|
Registered voters/turnout| 43,552,931| 76.26|
Source: Supreme Election Council

#### By province

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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

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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

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Çankırı | AKP
Çorum | AKP
Denizli | AKP
Diyarbakır | DGB
Edirne | CHP
Elazığ | DYP
Erzincan | AKP
Erzurum | AKP
Eskişehir | DSP
Gaziantep | AKP
Giresun | AKP
Gümüşhane | MHP
Hakkâri | DGB
Hatay | AKP
Isparta | AKP
Mersin | CHP
Istanbul | AKP
|  | Province | Party

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İzmir | CHP
Kars | AKP
Kastamonu | 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 | MHP
|  | Province | Party

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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

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Bayburt | AKP
Karaman | AKP
Kırıkkale | AKP
Batman | DGB
Şırnak | DGB
Bartın | DSP
Ardahan | IND.
Iğdır | MHP
Yalova | AKP
Karabük | AKP
Kilis | AKP
Osmaniye | AKP
Düzce | AKP

## References

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1. ^ Local Elections in Turkey: A Landslide Victory for the Incumbent AKP Archived 2011-07-08 at the Wayback Machine Soner Cagaptay

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