Follow the vote: Turkey election run-off results 2023

None of the candidates passed the 50 percent mark for an outright victory on May 14, leading to an unprecedented runoff.

The counting of votes in the second round of Turkey’s presidential election is underway.

A broadcast ban on announcing results is expected to be lifted at 6.30pm (3.30pm GMT), with results likely to be released earlier than May 14 as voters will only have two options to choose from this time.

Polling stations opened at 8am (5am GMT) on Sunday and closed at 5pm (2pm GMT).

The results will be shown below as they become available.

Map with results:

Result first round

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan received 49.52 percent of the May 14 vote, while his main challenger Kemal Kilicdaroglu received 44.88 percent.

A third, nationalist candidate, Sinan Ogan, received 5.17 percent of the vote and supported Erdogan for the second round.

According to Anadolu Agency, 88.84 percent of Turkey’s 64 million eligible voters voted in the first round.

Hover over each province to see how each candidate performed in the first round.

Erdogan against Kilicdaroglu

The ruling Turkish People’s Alliance and the opposition Nation Alliance differ on a number of important points. Here is an overview of their policies and promises:

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, 69

Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi (Justice and Development Party, also known as AK Party)
National Alliance candidate

• The current president has been in power for 20 years, nine as president and eleven as prime minister, from 2003 to 2014.
• He was mayor of Istanbul from 1994 to 1998.
• He is now seeking a third consecutive presidential term.
• This is his most challenging election amid economic woes and earthquake damage.

Kemal Kılıçdaroglu, 74

Cumhuriyet Halk Partesi (CHP or Republican People’s Party)
National Alliance candidate

• He led the CHP for more than ten years.
• Prior to entering politics, he was a specialist in the Treasury Department and chaired the Social Insurance Agency for most of the 1990s.
• He led a string of electoral defeats at the CHP but is running as a unity candidate for the six-party Nation Alliance with the backing of Turkey’s second largest opposition party, the pro-Kurdish HDP.
• He vows to return Turkey to a “strong parliamentary system”.