Local Elections in Turkey

Local goverment elections in Turkey were today. AKP did not reached the 'feared' percentage (65%) of the votes, but they votes increased by 10 percentage points to 42%.

CHP lost some ground. Apparently, all the parties on theleft lost some ground; the traditional 40% votes to the left was down to 20%, probably for the first time.

According to early results, 81 mayor positions are distributed as follows: AKP 56, CHP 9, SHP 5, MHP 4, DSP 2, DYP 1, SP 1 and independent 1.

I still cannot believe we have some many political parties in the election: This year's count was 15. Ten of these parties have received less than 3% of the votes.

TRT is running a decent election site.