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Wed 3 Apr 2019 05.30 EDT Last modified on Wed 3 Apr 2019 10.18 EDT. Since the vote was a re-run, voters who turned 18 between 31 March and 23 June 2019 would not be included on the electoral roll. It was a re-run of the March 2019 mayoral election, which was annulled by the Supreme Electoral Council (YSK) on 6 May 2019. Yıldırım, on the other hand, lost 11 districts he had won in March and saw a 4 percent decrease in his previous vote share, conceding defeat soon after indicative results became public.The opposition's landslide was characterised as the "beginning of the end" for Erdoğan,After the local elections were held on 31 March 2019, the Chairman of the On 6 May 2019, in a 7-to-4 decision, the YSK ruled that the Istanbul mayoral election shall be annulled, and that it shall be repeated on 23 June 2019.
This was due to numerous complaints from all parties in the March local elections that mentally impaired individuals unable to exercise free thought were exploited for their vote. The opposition's victory defied opinion polls, which predicted a much narrower victory, and was a record in the history of Istanbul local elections in terms of both popular vote and percentage share. Aside from these efforts, president and AKP leader As part of their election campaign, AKP's goals were:

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Please update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information. In response to these developments, President Erdoğan said that "as the Turkish nation gives one of the most critical struggles in its history, we will not give permission to those who want to implement their own agendas at the cost of our party's weakness".The following table is detailing the preliminary results of the Istanbul Mayoral Election, with more than 99% of the ballots counted.

Meanwhile, Minister of the Interior After the absence of vote theft in the reasoning for the annulment of the election by the During the annulment process, there were criticisms of the Meanwhile, other members of the AK Party brought certain criticisms towards the annulment and the campaign run by the AK Party: As a result, the Istanbul electorate fell from 10,570,939 to 10,570,354 (including deaths and convictions during this time).After the annulment of the 31 March elections, the On 27 May 2019, the finalized candidate list for the 23 June 2019 election was announced. The YSK did, however, remove individuals with mental disabilities from voter lists. Official results will be released by the Supreme Electoral Council.

In the list announced by the Istanbul Provincial Electoral Council, there are 17 independent candidates aside from the partied candidates Ekrem İmamoğlu, Binali Yıldırım, Necdet Gökçınar, and Mustafa İlker Yücel.In the articles published on 9 May 2019 regarding the AKP's strategy, it was said that the AKP would go door-to-door to convince undecided voters and those who did not vote on 31 March, that the AKP would soften its rhetoric, that projects regarding Istanbul and its districts would be emphasized, and that the AKP would participate in joint rallies with the MHP. A different rhetoric was used towards the estimated 400,000 to 700,000 AKP voters who did not vote for Binali Yıldırım on 31 March as a reaction against the party's policies.During the campaign for the election on 31 March, the AKP along with its partner MHP emphasized the "survival problem" in its rhetoric.
Mon 1 Apr 2019 00.28 EDT First published on Sun 31 Mar 2019 08.19 EDT. The June 2019 Istanbul mayoral election was held on 23 June 2019. The election commission said the CHP's Ekrem Imamoglu was leading there by less than 0.5%, but that the results of more than 80 ballot boxes were … Afterwards, the AKP determined that many On 6 May 2019, the lawyers of imprisoned PKK leader On the other hand, in regards to the accusation that the CHP stole votes, Yıldırım alleged that balloting council presidents had not given the relevant ballots to those that they identified as AK Party voters in the 31 March elections. Presidential elections were held to elect the President of Turkey using a two-round system. Both Yıldırım and Erdoğan acknowledged the defeat and congratulated Ekrem İmamoğlu on his re-election as Mayor of Istanbul.