Turkish local elections, 1999
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Results
| Party | Party leader | Vote total | Vote percentage |
|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic Left Party Democratic Left Party (Turkey) The Democratic Left Party is a Turkish political party founded on November 14, 1985, by Rahşan Ecevit.-1985-1999:The DSP, a social democratic oriented party, was registered on November 14, 1985 by Rahşan Ecevit, wife of Bülent Ecevit, as he was banned from political life after the 1980 coup... |
Bülent Ecevit Bülent Ecevit Mustafa Bülent Ecevit was a Turkish politician, poet, writer and journalist, who was the leader of Republican People's Party , later of the Democratic Left Party and four-time Prime Minister of Turkey.- Personal life :... |
5,885,132 | % 18.70 |
| Nationalist Movement Party Nationalist Movement Party The Nationalist Movement Party , is a far-right political party in Turkey.In the 2002 general elections, the party had lost its 129 seats as it had won only 8.34% of the national vote... |
Devlet Bahçeli Devlet Bahçeli Devlet Bahçeli is a Turkish politician and has been the second chairman of the Nationalist Movement Party since 6 July 1997.... |
5,401,597 | % 17.17 |
| Virtue Party Virtue Party Virtue Party was an Islamist political party established in December 1998 in Turkey. It was found unconstitutional by the Constitutional Court and then banned in June 2001, for violating the secularist articles of the Constitution... |
Recai Kutan Recai Kutan Mehmet Recai Kutan is a Turkish politician and the former leader of Felicity Party .-Biography:Kutan graduated from Istanbul Technical University, Department of Civil Engineering in 1952. Until 1973, he worked as an engineer in various projects including the Southeastern Anatolia Project... |
5,185,831 | % 16.48 |
| Motherland Party Motherland Party (Turkey) The Motherland Party, was a political party in Turkey. It was founded in 1983 by Turgut Özal. It was merged to Democratic Party in October 2009... |
Mesut Yılmaz Mesut Yilmaz Ahmet Mesut Yılmaz is the former leader of the Motherland Party and was the Turkish prime minister in the 1990s.Mesut Yılmaz was a rising star in the Motherland Party of Turgut Özal, representing the Black Sea province of Rize in the parliament and serving as tourism minister in Ozal's cabinet... |
4,730,711 | % 15.03 |
| True Path Party True Path Party The Democratic Party , abbreviated to DP, is a centre-right, conservative Turkish political party, established by Suleyman Demirel in 1983 as the Right Path Party... |
Tansu Çiller Tansu Çiller Tansu Penbe Çiller is a Turkish economist and politician. She was Turkey's first and only female Prime Minister.- Early career :She is the daughter of a Turkish governor of Bilecik province during the 1950s. She graduated from the School of Economics at Robert College after finishing the American... |
4,157,262 | % 13.21 |
| Republican People's Party Republican People's Party (Turkey) The Republican People's Party is a centre-left Kemalist political party in Turkey. It is the oldest political party of Turkey and is currently Main Opposition in the Grand National Assembly. The Republican People's Party describes itself as "a modern social-democratic party, which is faithful to... |
Deniz Baykal Deniz Baykal Deniz Baykal is a Turkish politician. He was a long-time leader of the Republican People's Party .-Biography:... |
3,487,483 | % 11.08 |
| People's Democracy Party People's Democracy Party People’s Democracy Party was a Kurdish nationalist political party in Turkey. It was founded in May 1994 by lawyer Murat Bozlak. The party adopted a moderate course and kept its distance from the issue of the PKK.... |
Murat Bozlak | 1,094,761 | % 3.48 |
| Great Union Party Great Union Party The Great Union Party is a nationalist political party in Turkey, created on January 29, 1993. It is considered to be close to the Grey Wolves organization, and is related to the "Alperen Ocakları" tendency, which operated a synthesis between Islamism and Turkish Nationalism, and separated itself... |
Muhsin Yazıcıoğlu Muhsin Yazıcıoğlu Muhsin Yazıcıoğlu was a Turkish politician and member of the Parliament of Turkey. He was the leader and founder of the Great Union Party , a right-wing, nationalist political party.... |
540,239 | % 1.72 |
| Democratic Turkey Party | Hüsamettin Cindoruk Hüsamettin Cindoruk Hüsamettin Cindoruk is a Turkish politician and the 17th Speaker of the Parliament of Turkey between 1991-1995. He has also been the leader of two political parties, notably of the True Path Party.-Biography:... |
292,224 | % 0.93 |
| Freedom and Solidarity Party Freedom and Solidarity Party Freedom and Solidarity Party is a left-wing party in Turkey. The party has had limited electoral success, although it controls a number of town halls and is influential in some unions of public employees... |
Ufuk Uras Ufuk Uras Mehmet Ufuk Uras is a Turkish libertarian socialist politician and economist who became the first socialist candidate elected to the Turkish parliament since 1960s in 2007... |
263,814 | % 0.84 |
| Nation Party | Aykut Edibali | 86,481 | % 0.27 |
| Peace Party | Ali Haydar Veziroğlu | 67,448 | % 0.21 |
| Workers' Party Workers' Party (Turkey) Workers' Party is political party in Turkey led by Doğu Perinçek. İP has its roots in the Revolutionary Workers and Peasants Party of Turkey , Workers and Peasants Party of Turkey and Socialist Party... |
Doğu Perinçek Dogu Perinçek Doğu Perinçek is a Turkish politician, leader of the Workers' Party , a scientific socialist organization, and former chairman of the Workers' Party . His first name Doğu means "East" in Turkish.-Personal life:... |
66,175 | % 0.21 |
| Independents | 56,879 | % 0.18 | |
| Democratic Party | Korkut Özal | 41,947 | % 0.13 |
| Liberal Democratic Party Liberal Democratic Party (Turkey) The Liberal Democratic Party is a liberal party in Turkey. LDP was founded in 1994 as Liberal Parti by Turkish entrepreneur Besim Tibuk. Besim Tibuk was the consultant of Turgut Özal till he died in 17 April 1993... |
Besim Tibuk | 30,314 | % 0.10 |
| Labour Party Labour Party (Turkey) Labour Party is a political party in Turkey. Its chairman is Selma Gurkan. The party was founded as Emek Partisi in 1996. Due to its ban by the Constitutional Court, it was refounded with the name Emeğin Partisi , the same year... |
29,499 | % 0.09 | |
| Socialist Power Party | Aydemir Güler Aydemir Güler Aydemir Güler is a Turkish communist politician and was the leader of Communist Party of Turkey .-Biography:Güler was born in 1961 in Istanbul, Turkey. He graduated from St. Joseph High School and Department of Economics, Boğaziçi University. He worked as an assistant in Faculty of Economics,... |
22,825 | % 0.07 |
| Renaissance Party | Hasan Celal Güzel | 17,335 | % 0.06 |
| Democracy and Peace Party | 6,593 | % 0.02 | |
| Changing Turkey Party | 3,143 | % 0.01 | |
| Total | 31,467,693 | %100.00 |
Mayor of metropolitan municipality
| City | Winner | Party |
|---|---|---|
| Adana Adana Adana is a city in southern Turkey and a major agricultural and commercial center. The city is situated on the Seyhan River, 30 kilometres inland from the Mediterranean, in south-central Anatolia... |
Aytaç Durak Aytaç Durak Aytaç Durak is a Turkish politician, and has been the mayor of Adana since 1984, excluding one term . He is the longest serving locally elected city mayor in Turkey, currently at his 5th term. Adding his 17 years as a municipal councillor, he will have served the municipality of Adana for 42 years... |
Motherland Party Motherland Party (Turkey) The Motherland Party, was a political party in Turkey. It was founded in 1983 by Turgut Özal. It was merged to Democratic Party in October 2009... |
| Ankara Ankara Ankara is the capital of Turkey and the country's second largest city after Istanbul. The city has a mean elevation of , and as of 2010 the metropolitan area in the entire Ankara Province had a population of 4.4 million.... |
Melih Gökçek Melih Gökçek İbrahim Melih Gökçek is a Turkish politician who has been the mayor of Ankara since 1994. Between 1991-1994, he was a MP. Gökçek has won municipal elections in 1994, 1999, 2004, and 2009.- Early life :... |
Virtue Party Virtue Party Virtue Party was an Islamist political party established in December 1998 in Turkey. It was found unconstitutional by the Constitutional Court and then banned in June 2001, for violating the secularist articles of the Constitution... |
| Antalya Antalya Antalya is a city on the Mediterranean coast of southwestern Turkey. With a population 1,001,318 as of 2010. It is the eighth most populous city in Turkey and country's biggest international sea resort.- History :... |
Bekir Kumbul | Republican People's Party Republican People's Party (Turkey) The Republican People's Party is a centre-left Kemalist political party in Turkey. It is the oldest political party of Turkey and is currently Main Opposition in the Grand National Assembly. The Republican People's Party describes itself as "a modern social-democratic party, which is faithful to... |
| Bursa | Erdoğan Bilenser | Democratic Left Party Democratic Left Party (Turkey) The Democratic Left Party is a Turkish political party founded on November 14, 1985, by Rahşan Ecevit.-1985-1999:The DSP, a social democratic oriented party, was registered on November 14, 1985 by Rahşan Ecevit, wife of Bülent Ecevit, as he was banned from political life after the 1980 coup... |
| Diyarbakır Diyarbakır Diyarbakır is one of the largest cities in southeastern Turkey... |
Feridun Çelik | People's Democracy Party People's Democracy Party People’s Democracy Party was a Kurdish nationalist political party in Turkey. It was founded in May 1994 by lawyer Murat Bozlak. The party adopted a moderate course and kept its distance from the issue of the PKK.... |
| Erzurum Erzurum Erzurum is a city in Turkey. It is the largest city, the capital of Erzurum Province. The city is situated 1757 meters above sea level. Erzurum had a population of 361,235 in the 2000 census. .Erzurum, known as "The Rock" in NATO code, served as NATO's southeastern-most air force post during the... |
Mahmut Uykusuz | Nationalist Movement Party Nationalist Movement Party The Nationalist Movement Party , is a far-right political party in Turkey.In the 2002 general elections, the party had lost its 129 seats as it had won only 8.34% of the national vote... |
| Eskişehir Eskisehir Eskişehir is a city in northwestern Turkey and the capital of the Eskişehir Province. According to the 2009 census, the population of the city is 631,905. The city is located on the banks of the Porsuk River, 792 m above sea level, where it overlooks the fertile Phrygian Valley. In the nearby... |
Yılmaz Büyükerşen Yilmaz Büyükersen Yılmaz Büyükerşen is a Turkish politician and educator and current mayor of Eskişehir.-Biography:Büyükerşen graduated from Eskişehir Academy of Economics and Commercial Sciences in 1962. During his academy years, he worked as a reporter, columnist, caricaturist and editor in various newspapers... |
Democratic Left Party Democratic Left Party (Turkey) The Democratic Left Party is a Turkish political party founded on November 14, 1985, by Rahşan Ecevit.-1985-1999:The DSP, a social democratic oriented party, was registered on November 14, 1985 by Rahşan Ecevit, wife of Bülent Ecevit, as he was banned from political life after the 1980 coup... |
| Gaziantep Gaziantep Gaziantep , Ottoman Turkish: Ayintab) previously and still informally called Antep; ʻayn tāb is a city in southeast Turkey and amongst the oldest continually inhabited cities in the world. The city is located 185 kilometres northeast of Adana and 127 kilometres by road north of Aleppo, Syria... |
Celal Doğan | Republican People's Party Republican People's Party (Turkey) The Republican People's Party is a centre-left Kemalist political party in Turkey. It is the oldest political party of Turkey and is currently Main Opposition in the Grand National Assembly. The Republican People's Party describes itself as "a modern social-democratic party, which is faithful to... |
| İstanbul Istanbul Istanbul , historically known as Byzantium and Constantinople , is the largest city of Turkey. Istanbul metropolitan province had 13.26 million people living in it as of December, 2010, which is 18% of Turkey's population and the 3rd largest metropolitan area in Europe after London and... |
Ali Müfit Gürtuna Ali Müfit Gürtuna Ali Müfit Gürtuna was the mayor of Istanbul from November 11, 1998 to April 1, 2004.-Political career:He started his political career at ANAP in the beginning of the 1980s. He changed his side in 1994 by joining to the Welfare Party. His rise to success took place after this decision... |
Virtue Party Virtue Party Virtue Party was an Islamist political party established in December 1998 in Turkey. It was found unconstitutional by the Constitutional Court and then banned in June 2001, for violating the secularist articles of the Constitution... |
| İzmir Izmir Izmir is a large metropolis in the western extremity of Anatolia. The metropolitan area in the entire Izmir Province had a population of 3.35 million as of 2010, making the city third most populous in Turkey... |
Ahmet Priştina | Democratic Left Party Democratic Left Party (Turkey) The Democratic Left Party is a Turkish political party founded on November 14, 1985, by Rahşan Ecevit.-1985-1999:The DSP, a social democratic oriented party, was registered on November 14, 1985 by Rahşan Ecevit, wife of Bülent Ecevit, as he was banned from political life after the 1980 coup... |
| Kayseri Kayseri Kayseri is a large and industrialized city in Central Anatolia, Turkey. It is the seat of Kayseri Province. The city of Kayseri, as defined by the boundaries of Kayseri Metropolitan Municipality, is structurally composed of five metropolitan districts, the two core districts of Kocasinan and... |
Mehmet Özhaseki Mehmet Özhaseki Mehmet Özhaseki, is a Turkish politician of the Justice and Development Party and the current mayor of Kayseri.... |
Virtue Party Virtue Party Virtue Party was an Islamist political party established in December 1998 in Turkey. It was found unconstitutional by the Constitutional Court and then banned in June 2001, for violating the secularist articles of the Constitution... |
| İzmit Izmit İzmit is a city in Turkey, administrative center of Kocaeli Province as well as the Kocaeli Metropolitan Municipality. It is located at the Gulf of İzmit in the Sea of Marmara, about east of Istanbul, on the northwestern part of Anatolia. The city center has a population of 294.875... |
Sefa Sirmen | Republican People's Party Republican People's Party (Turkey) The Republican People's Party is a centre-left Kemalist political party in Turkey. It is the oldest political party of Turkey and is currently Main Opposition in the Grand National Assembly. The Republican People's Party describes itself as "a modern social-democratic party, which is faithful to... |
| Konya Konya Konya is a city in the Central Anatolia Region of Turkey. The metropolitan area in the entire Konya Province had a population of 1,036,027 as of 2010, making the city seventh most populous in Turkey.-Etymology:... |
Mustafa Özkafa | Virtue Party Virtue Party Virtue Party was an Islamist political party established in December 1998 in Turkey. It was found unconstitutional by the Constitutional Court and then banned in June 2001, for violating the secularist articles of the Constitution... |
| Mersin Mersin -Mersin today:Today, Mersin is a large city spreading out along the coast, with Turkey's second tallest skyscraper , huge hotels, an opera house, expensive real estate near the sea or up in the hills, and many other modern urban... |
Macit Özcan Macit Özcan Macit Özcan, is a Turkish politician of the Republican People's Party and the current mayor of Mersin.After his secondary education in Adana, he graduated in civil engineering from Cukurova University.... |
Democratic Left Party Democratic Left Party (Turkey) The Democratic Left Party is a Turkish political party founded on November 14, 1985, by Rahşan Ecevit.-1985-1999:The DSP, a social democratic oriented party, was registered on November 14, 1985 by Rahşan Ecevit, wife of Bülent Ecevit, as he was banned from political life after the 1980 coup... |
| Samsun Samsun Samsun is a city of about half a million people on the north coast of Turkey. It is the provincial capital of Samsun Province and a major Black Sea port.-Name:... |
Yusuf Ziya Yılmaz | Motherland Party Motherland Party (Turkey) The Motherland Party, was a political party in Turkey. It was founded in 1983 by Turgut Özal. It was merged to Democratic Party in October 2009... |