1999 Turkish local elections

1999 Turkish local elections

April 18, 1999 (1999-04-18)
All 3,215 district municipalities and 16 metropolitan municipalities of Turkey
Majority party Minority party Third party   Leader Bülent Ecevit Devlet Bahçeli Recai Kutan Party DSP MHP FP Leader since 15 January 1989 6 July 1997 1998 Last election 8.75%, 23 mayors 7.95%, 118 mayors 19.14%, 329 mayors Municipalities 189 499 488 Mayor ± 166 381 159 Popular vote^ 5,885,132 5,401,597 5,185,831 Percentage 18.70% 17.17% 16.48% Swing 9.95pp 9.22pp 2.66pp

Local elections were held in Turkey on April 18, 1999.

Results

Party		Votes	%
	Democratic Left Party	5,885,132	18.70
	Nationalist Movement Party	5,401,597	17.17
	Virtue Party	5,185,831	16.48
	Motherland Party	4,730,711	15.03
	True Path Party	4,157,262	13.21
	Republican People's Party	3,487,483	11.08
	People's Democracy Party	1,094,761	3.48
	Great Unity Party	540,239	1.72
	Democrat Turkey Party	292,224	0.93
	Freedom and Solidarity Party	263,814	0.84
	Nation Party	86,481	0.27
	Peace Party	67,448	0.21
	Workers' Party	66,175	0.21
	Democratic Party	41,947	0.13
	Liberal Democratic Party	30,314	0.10
	Labour Party	29,499	0.09
	Socialist Power Party	22,825	0.07
	Rebirth Party	17,335	0.06
	Democracy and Peace Party	6,593	0.02
	Changing Turkey Party	3,143	0.01
	Independents	56,879	0.18
Total		31,467,693	100.00

Metropolitan municipality mayors

City	Winner	Party
Adana	Aytaç Durak	Motherland Party
Ankara	Melih Gökçek	Virtue Party
Antalya	Bekir Kumbul	Republican People's Party
Bursa	Erdoğan Bilenser	Democratic Left Party
Diyarbakır	Feridun Çelik	People's Democracy Party
Erzurum	Mahmut Uykusuz	Nationalist Movement Party
Eskişehir	Yılmaz Büyükerşen	Democratic Left Party
Gaziantep	Celal Doğan	Republican People's Party
İstanbul	Ali Müfit Gürtuna	Virtue Party
İzmir	Ahmet Priştina	Democratic Left Party
Kayseri	Mehmet Özhaseki	Virtue Party
İzmit	Sefa Sirmen	Republican People's Party
Konya	Mustafa Özkafa	Virtue Party
Mersin	Macit Özcan	Democratic Left Party
Samsun	Yusuf Ziya Yılmaz	Motherland Party

Mayor of other municipalities

Province Party Adıyaman FP Afyonkarahisar MHP Ağrı HADEP Amasya MHP Aksaray MHP Ardahan DSP Artvin CHP Aydın ANAP Balıkesir ANAP Bartın DSP Batman HADEP Bayburt MHP Bilecik CHP Bingöl HADEP Bitlis FP Bolu DSP Burdur CHP

Province Party Çanakkale CHP Çankırı MHP Çorum FP Denizli DYP Edirne ANAP Elazığ FP Erzincan MHP Giresun CHP Gümüşhane MHP Hakkâri HADEP Hatay CHP Iğdır MHP Isparta MHP Karabük DYP Karaman MHP Kars ANAP

Province Party Kastamonu MHP Kilis DSP Kırıkkale MHP Kırklareli MHP Kırşehir MHP Kütahya FP Malatya MHP Manisa ANAP Kahramanmaraş FP Mardin DYP Muğla CHP Muş MHP Nevşehir FP Niğde MHP Ordu ANAP Osmaniye MHP

Province Party Rize ANAP Sakarya FP Siirt HADEP Sinop ANAP Sivas FP Tekirdağ ANAP Tokat FP Trabzon FP Tunceli CHP Şanlıurfa FP Şırnak ANAP Uşak MHP Van HADEP Yozgat MHP Yalova ANAP Zonguldak DSP

External links

• Results of the local elections (in Turkish)