TURKEY’S RULING PARTY LEADS LOCAL ELECTIONS

Turkey’s ruling party AKP won 12 mayoral seats, while the main opposition CHP gained 10, in renewed local elections held in 30 districts around the country. Renewed elections were held in 30 municipalities of the 2,931 that went to the polls on March 29, after they were cancelled for various reasons.  According to the unofficial results, the Justice and Development Party, AKP, won 12 mayoral seats, while the Republican People’s Party, or CHP, won 10 seats in Sunday’s elections. The results also show that the Democrat Party, or DP, gained three seats, the Nationalist Movement Party, or MHP, two seats, and the Democratic Society Party, or DTP, and Motherland Party, or ANAVATAN, each won a seat. In the renewed elections, the AKP garnered 42 percent of the total vote, while the MHP gained16 percent, the Felicity Party, or SP, 15 percent and CHP 14 percent. Elections in Gulsehri town in the Sorgun district of the central province of Yozgat were cancelled for a second time.