Turkey’s 2024 local elections redrew the map

Vote shares, province results, and control changes show where the opposition expanded—and where it did not.

Turkey’s 2024 local elections changed both the national vote ranking and the map of local control. The sequence moves from vote share to province winners, then to administrative control.

National vote share

The first view compares 2024 vote share with each party’s change since 2019.

CHP led the national municipal vote and improved on its 2019 result. Reading share and change together separates party size from momentum.

Province winners

The map shows the opposition expanding beyond its usual western and metropolitan base.

The result extended beyond coastal and metropolitan provinces. Several Anatolian provinces changed hands, widening the opposition’s geographic base.

Control by administrative level

The final view separates vote share from the number of municipalities each party controls.

A party can lose major cities while retaining control in smaller municipalities. The final chart shows both changes at once.

Vote share and momentum

Largest gain: CHP +7.65 pts

01CHP37.77%+7.65 pts
02AKP35.49%-8.84 pts
03YRP6.19%+6.19 pts
04DEM5.7%+1.46 pts
05MHP4.99%-2.32 pts
2024 local vote shareBaseline · 2019

What to notice

  • CHP led the national municipal vote and improved on 2019.
  • Opposition gains extended beyond coastal and metropolitan provinces.
  • Vote share and municipal control did not move in exactly the same way.

Data source: Supreme Election Council result tables and the local project datasets used to build the province map and comparison views.

Method

  1. Combined result summaries with a province-level map and party-change comparison.
  2. Built custom React views for national share, province winners, and net control changes.
  3. Explained Turkey’s local-government levels for readers outside the country.