2009 Turkish local elections

All 3,281 provincial and 32,393 municipal councillors of Turkey 18,913 councillors 6,023 councillors 3,579 councillors

^ 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. The election was not contested by Cem Uzan's GP. The AKP failed to take certain provinces it had publicly targeted, such as Diyarbakır, İzmir and Urfa, and did not achieve its goal of exceeding 47% of the overall vote. 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

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

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

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

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District elections

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