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.Hürriyet Daily News. "Ruling party main loser in local ballot" The election was not contested by Cem Uzan's GP.MSNBC. "Genç Parti yerel seçimlere katılmayacak" The AKP failed to take certain provinces it had publicly targeted, such as Diyarbakır,Hürriyet Daily News. Pro-Kurdish DTP sweeps Diyarbakir İzmir and Urfa,Hürriyet Daily News. "Turkey's AKP loses against independent Fakibaba" and did not achieve its goal of exceeding 47% of the overall vote.Al Jazeera English. "AKP fails to sweep Turkey poll" 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
District elections Elections were also held for district mayors (ilçe başkanı) as well as neighbourhood presidents (muhtar).
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