1999 Turkish local elections

Turkish local elections, 1999

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 23 mayors, 8.75% 118 mayors, 7.95% 329 mayors, 19.14% 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 9.95% 9.22% 2.66%
Results map showing the winners of the 81 provincial capitals of Turkey by party: dark blue MHP, orange FP, green ANAP, pink DYP, blue DSP, brown HADEP, red CHP, grey independent ^ Four different elections in order to elect both types of councillor and mayor were held on the same day. The results shown here are the provincial councillor election results, which best reflect the overall voting intentions of the electorate. See the results section for the full results.

Turkey held 11th local elections on April 18, 1999.

Results

Party	Party leader	Vote total	Vote percentage
Democratic Left Party	Bülent Ecevit	5,885,132	% 18.70
Nationalist Movement Party	Devlet Bahçeli	5,401,597	% 17.17
Virtue Party	Recai Kutan	5,185,831	% 16.48
Motherland Party	Mesut Yılmaz	4,730,711	% 15.03
True Path Party	Tansu Çiller	4,157,262	% 13.21
Republican People's Party	Deniz Baykal	3,487,483	% 11.08
People's Democracy Party	Murat Bozlak	1,094,761	% 3.48
Great Union Party	Muhsin Yazıcıoğlu	540,239	% 1.72
Democratic Turkey Party	Hüsamettin Cindoruk	292,224	% 0.93
Freedom and Solidarity Party	Ufuk Uras	263,814	% 0.84
Nation Party	Aykut Edibali	86,481	% 0.27
Peace Party	Ali Haydar Veziroğlu	67,448	% 0.21
Workers' Party	Doğu Perinçek	66,175	% 0.21
Independents		56,879	% 0.18
Democratic Party	Korkut Özal	41,947	% 0.13
Liberal Democratic Party	Besim Tibuk	30,314	% 0.10
Labour Party		29,499	% 0.09
Socialist Power Party	Aydemir Güler	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	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 Artvin CHP Aydın ANAP Balıkesir ANAP Bilecik CHP Bingöl HADEP Bitlis FP Bolu DSP Burdur CHP Çanakkale CHP

Province Party Çankırı MHP Çorum FP Denizli DYP Edirne ANAP Elazığ FP Erzincan MHP Giresun CHP Gümüşhane MHP Hakkâri HADEP Hatay CHP Isparta MHP

Province Party Kars ANAP Kastamonu MHP Kırklareli MHP Kırşehir MHP Kütahya FP Malatya MHP Manisa ANAP Kahramanmaraş FP Mardin DYP Muğla CHP Muş MHP Nevşehir FP Niğde MHP

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

Province Party Bayburt MHP Karaman MHP Kırıkkale MHP Batman HADEP Şırnak ANAP Bartın DSP Ardahan DSP Iğdır MHP Yalova ANAP Karabük DYP Kilis DSP Osmaniye MHP

External links

• Results of the local elections (in Turkish)