Turkish local elections, 2019

Turkish local elections, 2019
On or before 31 March 2019
All 30 metropolitan and 1,351 district municipal mayors of Turkey
All 1,251 provincial and 20,500 municipal councillors of Turkey
According to 2014 local governmental composition

 
Leader Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu Devlet Bahçeli
Party AK Party CHP MHP
Leader since 21 May 2017 22 May 2010 6 July 1997
Last election 818 mayors, 11,309 councillors, 42.87% 232 mayors, 4,320 councillors, 26.34% 169 mayors, 3,675 councillors, 17.82%
 
Leader Mehmet Aslan
Sebahat Tuncel		 Meral Akşener
Party DBP İYİ
Leader since 9 July 2017 25 October 2017
Last election 99 mayors, 1,570 councillors, 6.29% New party

The Turkish local elections of 2019 will be held on or before Sunday, 31 March 2019 throughout the 81 Provinces of Turkey. A total of 30 metropolitan and 1,351 district municipal mayors, alongside 1,251 provincial and 20,500 municipal councillors will be elected, in addition to numerous local non-partisan positions such as neighbourhood presidents (muhtars) and elderly people's councils.

Target municipalities

AK Party targets
MunicipalityIncumbentNeeded to win
YalovaCHP0.4%
HatayCHP0.6%
ZonguldakCHP1.3%
AdanaMHP1.6%
ManisaMHP3.4%
  
CHP targets
MunicipalityIncumbentNeeded to win
AnkaraAKP1.1%
ArdahanAKP1.6%
AntalyaAKP1.8%
KarsMHP3.3%
MersinMHP3.7%

Opinion polls

Date Pollster Sample AKP CHP MHP HDP Others Lead
11 Jul 2016AKAM8,89040.632.311.711.63.88.3
1 Nov 2015Local elections 201443,543,71742.926.317.86.36.816.5
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