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Gaziantep mayor tops satisfaction survey, CHP's Imamoğlu fails to get in top 10

by DAILY SABAH

ISTANBUL May 15, 2020 - 2:21 pm GMT+3
Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality Mayor Ekrem Imamoğlu.
Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality Mayor Ekrem Imamoğlu.
by DAILY SABAH May 15, 2020 2:21 pm
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People walk in front of the banners of President Tayyip Erdoğan (L) and Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu (C), presidential candidate of the main opposition alliance with Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoğlu (R), ahead of the May 14 presidential and parliamentary elections, in Istanbul, Türkiye, May 12, 2023. (Reuters Photo)

Kılıçdaroğlu unfazed by backlash over Turkish election failure

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A year after local polls, a research company revealed a satisfaction survey on Thursday for the mayors of the metropolitan municipalities, showing that Gaziantep Mayor Fatma Şahin of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party) gained the most appreciation from the people. Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoğlu of the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP), on the other hand, failed to make it to the list of top 10 mayors.

With an aim to determine the top 10 most successful mayors of Turkey, ORC Research Company conducted a survey in 30 provinces with 9,800 participants between the dates of May 1-10. According to the survey, with the support of 62.7% of the participants, Şahin is the most successful mayor in the country.

She is followed by Eskişehir Mayor Yılmaz Büyükerşen of the CHP and Manisa Mayor Cengiz Ergün of the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP).

Ankara Mayor Mansur Yavaş of the CHP took the fifth spot on the list.

The local elections, especially the do-over polls in Istanbul, were one of the biggest political events of the past year. Millions of Turkish voters cast their votes nationwide on March 31 in local elections to choose mayors, city council members, mukhtars (neighborhood officials) and members of elder councils for the next five years.

On March 31, 2019, the turnout was 83.88%, 6 percentage points lower than the previous local elections of March 30, 2014.

As a result of the elections, the AK Party took the lead in 15 metropolitan municipalities and 24 other provinces. In 2014, the AK Party won the local elections in 18 metropolitan municipalities and 30 other provinces.

The MHP took the lead in one metropolitan municipality and 11 other provinces. In 2014, the MHP had won the local elections in three metropolitan municipalities and five other provinces.

CHP took the lead in 10 metropolitan municipalities and 10 other provinces. In 2014, CHP won the local elections in six metropolitan municipalities and eight other provinces.

The results in March 2019 were canceled after the AK Party and its coalition partner, the MHP, appealed to the Supreme Election Council (YSK), citing irregularities and contradictions in legal measures, leading to the annulment of the mayoral certificate of then-CHP candidate Imamoğlu, who won with 48.8% of the vote, according to the YSK. As a result, people had to return to the polls once again in July 2019 to revote for the Istanbul candidates. In the do-over elections, Imamoğlu received 54.03% of the vote while his opponent, People's Alliance candidate Binali Yıldırım, received 45.09%.

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