More than 64 million people are eligible to vote to elect a president and parliament for five-year terms.
Voting has now ended in Turkey’s elections as President Recep Tayyip Erdogan faces the biggest political challenge of his 20-year rule. His main rival is opposition leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu. More than 64 million people were eligible to vote to elect a president and parliament for a five-year term.
The polling places opened at 08:00 (05:00 GMT) and closed at 17:00 (14:00 GMT).
The results of the election will be posted below as they become available.
Map with results:
How does voting work in Turkey:
In July 2018, a month after Erdogan won the presidency, Turkey switched from a parliamentary to a presidential system, abolishing the post of prime minister. Presidential and parliamentary elections are held on the same day every five years.
There are three presidential candidates: Recep Tayyip Erdogan (AK Party), Kemal Kilicdaroglu (CHP) and Sinan Ogan (ATA).
Any candidate who can win more than half of the presidential election on May 14 is the winner. If no candidate can secure that, there will be a second round two weeks later between the top two contenders.
2022 electoral changes
In a law passed by parliament in April 2022, the electoral threshold was lowered from 10 percent to seven percent.
More importantly, the amendments changed the way seats are distributed among the parties that are members of an alliance.
In the past, parliamentary seats were allocated based on the total number of votes accumulated by an alliance through common lists of candidates prepared by allied political parties.
The changes allocate seats based on the votes each party receives individually.
Main candidates
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, 69
Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi (Justice and Development Party, known as AK Party)
National Alliance candidate
- The current president has been in power for 20 years, nine of them as president.
- Was Prime Minister from 2003 to 2014 and Mayor of Istanbul from 1994 to 1998.
- Seeking a third consecutive presidential term in the May 14 election.
- This could be his most challenging election as voters worry about the economy and earthquake damage.
Kemal Kılıçdaroglu, 74
Cumhuriyet Halk Partesi (CHP, known as Republican People’s Party)
National Alliance candidate
- Has led the CHP for over a decade.
- Before entering politics, he was a specialist in the Ministry of Finance and then chaired the Social Insurance Agency for most of the 1990s.
- Presided over a series of electoral defeats at the CHP, but is running for the six-party Nation Alliance candidate with the backing of Turkey’s second largest opposition party, the pro-Kurdish HDP.
- Pledges to return Turkey to a “strong parliamentary system”.
Sinan Ogan, 55
ATA Alliance candidate
- Comes from an academic and international financial development background.
- Formerly a member of the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), an ally of Erdogan’s AK party.
- Was Deputy Dean of Azerbaijan State Economic University and representative of the Turkish International Cooperation and Development Agency, 1994-1998.
- Elected as Igdır deputy from MHP in 2011 and expelled from his party in 2015 due to his internal opposition.
- Brands himself as the candidate of the Turkish nationalists.
- He has been accused of pursuing a xenophobic and far-right policy, especially when it comes to Syrian refugees.