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. 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

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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.

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

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

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

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

District elections

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