Electoral history of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan explained

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was a Mayor of Istanbul and is the 1st leader of the Justice and Development Party and the 25th Prime Minister of the Republic of Turkey. He has been involved in many elections on local, leadership and nationwide stage since his first election to the Grand National Assembly in 1986.

Local elections, 1994

See main article: 1994 Turkish local elections.

Candidate	Party	Percentage	Votes
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan		25.19	973,704
		22.14	855,897
		20.30	784,693
		15.46	597,461
		12.38	478,612
Unknown		1.87	72,121
		1.40	54,028
Unknown		0.35	13,662
Unknown		0.31	12,294
Unknown		0.21	7,979
Unknown		0.18	7,075
Unknown		0.13	5,215

General election, 2002

See main article: 2002 Turkish general election.

Leader^[1]	Party		Votes	Percentage	Swing%	Seats
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan	d		10,808,229	34.28	34.28	363	+363
			6,113,352	19.38	10.69	178	+178
			3,008,942	9.54	2.45	0	−85
			2,635,787	8.34	9.64	0	−129
			2,285,598	7.25	7.25	0	0
			1,955,298	6.23	1.48	0	0
			1,609,736	5.13	8.09	0	−86
			785,489	2.49	12.93	0	−111
			384,009	1.22	20.97	0	−136
			361,284	1.15	1.15	0	0
			321,046	1.02	0.44	0	0
			294,560	0.94	0.94	0	0
			161,563	0.51	0.33	0	0
			150,385	0.48	0.48	0	0
			106,023	0.34	0.46	0	0
			89,331	0.28	0.13	0	0
			68,271	0.22	0.03	0	0
			59,180	0.19	0.07	0	0
−			310,145	0.99	0.12	9	+6

By-election, 2003

Leader^[2]	Party	Votes	Percentage	Swing%	Seats
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan		55,203	84.82	67.26	3	+2
		8,972	13.79	4.87	0	−1
		500	0.77	0.63	0	0
		404	0.62	0.52	0	0

Local elections, 2004

Leader^[3]	Party	Votes	Percentage	members
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan		align=right	13,448,587	align=right	41.67	align=right	2.276
		align=right	5,883,696	align=right	18.23	align=right	392
		align=right	3,372,732	align=right	10.45	align=right	178
		align=right	3,216,737	align=right	9.97	align=right	156
		align=right	1,662,280	align=right	5.15	align=right	129
		align=right	1,297,736	align=right	4.02	align=right	19
		align=right	839,897	align=right	2.60	align=right	4
		align=right	807,842	align=right	2.50	align=right	26
		align=right	683,782	align=right	2.12	align=right	9
		align=right	374,125	align=right	1.16	align=right	7
−		align=right	234,443	align=right	0.73	align=right	9
Haydar Baş		align=right	154,519	align=right	0.48	align=right	0
		align=right	85,188	align=right	0.26	align=right	0
		align=right	79,774	align=right	0.25	align=right	0
		align=right	79,584	align=right	0.25	align=right	0
		align=right	18.695	align=right	0.06	align=right	1
		align=right	12.406	align=right	0.04	align=right	0
		align=right	8,711	align=right	0.03	align=right	0
		align=right	7,837	align=right	0.02	align=right	2
		align=right	3,872	align=right	0.01	align=right	0
−		align=right	0	align=right	0.00	align=right	0

General election, 2007

Leader^[4]	Party		Votes	Percentage	Swing%	Seats
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan	d		16,327,291	46.58	12.30	341	–23
			7,317,808	20.88	1.49	112	–66
			5,001,869	14.27	5.91	71	+71
			1,898,873	5.42	4.12	0	0
–			1,835,486	5.24	4.24	26	+18
			1,064,871	3.04	4.21	0	0
			820,289	2.34	0.15	0	0
			182,095	0.52	0.04	0	0
			179,010	0.51	0.51	0	0
			128,148	0.37	0.14	0	0
			100,982	0.29	0.29	0	0
			79,258	0.23	0.04	0	0
			52,055	0.15	0.19	0	0
			35,364	0.10	0.18	0	0
			26,292	0.08	0.08	0	0

Constitutional referendum, 2007

Options^[5]	Votes	Percentage
Yes (supported by Recep Tayyip Erdoğan)	19,422,714	align=right	68.95%
No	align=right	8,744,94	align=right	31.05%

Local elections, 2009

Leader^[6]	Party	Votes	Percentage	members
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan		align=right	15,353,553	align=right	38.39	align=right	1889
		align=right	9,229,936	align=right	23.08	align=right	612
		align=right	6,386,279	align=right	15.97	align=right	414
		align=right	2,277,777	align=right	5.70	align=right	235
		align=right	2,079,701	align=right	5.20	align=right	29
		align=right	1,536,847	align=right	3.84	align=right	45
		align=right	1,139,878	align=right	2.85	align=right	26
		align=right	943,765	align=right	2.36	align=right	18
		align=right	304,361	align=right	0.76	align=right	4
–		align=right	172,279	align=right	0.43	align=right	7
		align=right	167,986	align=right	0.42	align=right	1
		align=right	114,243	align=right	0.29	align=right	0
		align=right	85,507	align=right	0.21	align=right	0
		align=right	67,984	align=right	0.17	align=right	0
		align=right	48,939	align=right	0.12	align=right	1
		align=right	41,818	align=right	0.10	align=right	0
		align=right	29,392	align=right	0.07	align=right	0
		align=right	6,197	align=right	0.02	align=right	0
		align=right	2,285	align=right	0.01	align=right	0
		align=right	36	align=right	0.00	align=right	0

Constitutional referendum, 2010

Options^[7]	Votes	Percentage
Yes (supported by Recep Tayyip Erdoğan)	21,787,244	align=right	57.88%
No	15,856,793	align=right	42.12%

General election, 2011

Leader^[8]	Party		Votes	Percentage	Swing%	Seats
align=left	Recep Tayyip Erdoğan	d	align=left	Justice and Development Party	21,399,082	49.83	3.25	327	–14
Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu		Republican People's Party	11,155,972	25.98	5.10	135	+23
Devlet Bahçeli		Nationalist Movement Party	5,585,513	13.01	1.30	53	–18
–		Independent	2,819,917	6.57	1.33	35	+8
Mustafa Kamalak		Felicity Party	543,454	1.27	1.07	0	0
Numan Kurtulmuş		People's Voice Party	329,723	0.77	0.77	0	0
Yalçın Topçu		Great Union Party	323,251	0.75	0.75	0	0
Namık Kemal Zeybek		Democratic Party	279,480	0.65	4.77	0	0
Osman Pamukoğlu		Rights and Equality Party	124,415	0.29	0.29	0	0
Masum Türker		Democratic Left Party	108,089	0.25	0.25	0	0
Çetin Özaçıkgöz		True Path Party	64,607	0.15	0.15	0	0
Erkan Baş		Communist Party of Turkey	64,006	0.15	0.08	0	0
Aykut Edibali		Nation Party	60,716	0.14	0.14	0	0
Ahmet Reyiz Yılmaz		Nationalist and Conservative Party	36,188	0.08	0.08	0	0
Selma Gürkan		Labour Party	32,128	0.07	0.00	0	0
Cem Toker		Liberal Democratic Party	15,222	0.04	0.06	0	0

Presidential election, 2014

See main article: 2014 Turkish presidential election.

Candidate	Nationwide votes	% (of valid votes)	Overseas votes	%	Customs votes	%	Total votes	%
	Recep Tayyip Erdoğan	20,670,826	51.65	143,873	62.30	185,444	62.73	21,000,143	51.79
	Ekmeleddin Mehmet İhsanoğlu	15,434,167	38.57	64,483	27.92	89,070	30.13	15,587,720	38.44
	Selahattin Demirtaş	3,914,359	9.78	22,582	9.78	21,107	7.14	3,958,048	9.76
	734,140	-	1,857	-	1,719	-	737,716	–
	40,019,352	100	230,938	100	297,340	100	41,283,627	100
	52,894,115	77.05	2,798,726	8.32	-	-	55,692,841	74.13
align=left colspan=10	Source: YSK nationwide results, YSK overseas results, YSK customs results, YSK overall results

Presidential election, 2018

See main article: 2018 Turkish presidential election.

Local elections, 2019

See main article: 2019 Turkish local elections.

Party	Leader	Votes	Percentage
Justice and Development Party		19,766,640	% 42.73
Republican People's Party		13,218,754	% 28.57
Nationalist Movement Party		3,756,245	% 8.12
Good Party		3,376,292	% 7.30
Peoples' Democratic Party	Sezai Temelli, Pervin Buldan	2,703,595	% 5.84
Felicity Party	Temel Karamollaoğlu	1,312,780	% 2.84
Great Unity Party		868,393	% 1.88
Democrat Party		411,190	% 0.89
Democratic Left Party		378,706	% 0.82
Independents		139,989	% 0.30
Independent Turkey Party		126,836	% 0.27
Communist Party of Turkey		111,775	% 0.24
Patriotic Party		92,580	% 0.20
Free Cause Party	İshak Sağlam	0	%0.00
Total		46,263,775	% 100.00

Presidential election, 2023

See main article: 2023 Turkish presidential election.

See also

• Elections in Turkey
• Prime Minister of Turkey

Notes and References

1. http://www.ysk.gov.tr/ysk/docs/2002MilletvekiliSecimi/gumrukdahil/gumrukdahil.pdf Election results, 2002
2. http://www.belgenet.com/secim/siirt_090303.html Election results, 2003
3. http://www.ysk.gov.tr/ysk/docs/2004MahalliIdareler/ilgenel/ilGenel.pdf Election results. 2004
4. http://www.ysk.gov.tr/ysk/docs/2007MilletvekiliSecimi/gumrukdahil/gumrukdahil.pdf Election results, 2007
5. http://www.ysk.gov.tr/ysk/docs/2007Referandum/Sonuc/sonuc.pdf Referendum results, 2007
6. http://www.ysk.gov.tr/ysk/docs/2009MahalliIdareler/ResmiGazete/IlGenel.pdf Election results
7. http://www.ysk.gov.tr/ysk/docs/2010Referandum/KesinSonuc/Sonuc.pdf Referendum results, 2010
8. http://www.ysk.gov.tr/ysk/docs/2011MilletvekiliSecimi/gumrukdahil/gumrukdahil.pdf Election results, 2007