An analysis of the 2024 local elections in Turkey, showing how the opposition expanded across the country and where control actually changed hands.
Story Snapshot
Start with the graphicAn English-language election explainer that turns a major Turkish political shift into a navigable, visual story using national results, province maps, and comparative party gains.
Turkey’s 2024 local elections produced a territorial realignment. The sequence below starts with national vote share, moves to the province map, then separates vote momentum from actual municipal control.
Step 1
The first chart anchors the story in 2024 vote share, while preserving the 2019 delta so momentum is visible next to size.
Top displayed parties
Each displayed row stays anchored to 2024 vote share, while the delta marker shows movement from the last local-election cycle.
CHP’s national lead is clearer when the 2019 movement sits beside the 2024 bar; smaller parties are not included in this view.
Switch sorting between current vote share and change from 2019.
CHP
2019 baseline
AKP
2019 baseline
YRP
2019 baseline
DEM
2019 HDP
MHP
2019 baseline
+7.65 pts
-8.84 pts
DEM is measured against the 2019 HDP result so the shift stays comparable across the party rebrand.
Step 2
The province map matters because it shows the opposition move extending beyond the usual western urban strongholds.
Geographic spread
Select a province to read the winning party, candidate, vote share, and control change below the map.
The national result becomes concrete when the province map shows where control changed hands.
Use the province selector for keyboard reading; the map remains a pointer-friendly scan.
Swipe to select province
Step 3
The final comparison separates headline vote share from actual municipal control across administrative levels.
Control shift
The diverging bars show gain or loss against 2019, while the total on the right keeps the 2024 scale of control in view.
Net change shows the swing; 2024 control shows how much local power each party still holds.
Toggle the administrative level to compare city, district, and provincial control.
CHP
2024 total
21
AKP
2024 total
12
MHP
2024 total
8
DEM
2024 total
7
YRP
2024 total
1
İYİ
2024 total
1
BBP
2024 total
1
CHP
AKP
MHP
Data source: Supreme Election Council result tables and the local project datasets used to build the province map and comparison views.
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