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Turkey held local elections 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 Ak Parti 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]
^ 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.
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.
The provisional results for provincial councils (Turkish: il genel meclisi) are given below:
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