1994 Istanbul mayoral election

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1994 Istanbul mayoral election

← 1989 27 March 1994 1999 →
 
Candidate Recep Tayyip Erdoğan İlhan Kesici Zülfü Livaneli
Party RP AP SHP
Popular vote 973,704 855,897 784,693
Percentage 25.19% 22.14% 20.30%

 
Candidate Bedrettin Dalan Necdet Özkan
Party DYP DSP
Popular vote 597,461 478,612
Percentage 15.46% 12.38%

Mayor before election

Nurettin Sözen
SHP

Elected Mayor

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
RP

The 1994 Istanbul mayoral election took place on 27 March 1994 in order to elect the Mayor of the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality. Additionally, each of the 27 districts of Istanbul elected a district municipal mayor on the same day. The election was held as part of nationwide local elections held on the same day.

The winner of the metropolitan mayoral race was Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the candidate of the Islamist-oriented Welfare Party, who served until his imprisonment in 1998. Erdoğan later went on to become Prime Minister of Turkey in 2003 and President of Turkey in 2014.

Results[edit]

The full results of the election are shown in the table below.[1]

Candidate Party Votes Percentage
(%)
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan RP 973,704 25.19
İlhan Kesici ANAP 855,897 22.14
Zülfü Livaneli SHP 784,693 20.30
Bedrettin Dalan DYP 597,461 15.46
Necdet Özkan DSP 478,612 12.38
Ahmet Vefik Alp MHP 72,121 1.87
Ertuğrul Günay CHP 54,028 1.40
Ahmet Hamdi Turgut BBP 13,662 0.35
Ferit Edibali MP 12,294 0.32
Hasan Celal Güzel HDP 7,979 0.21
Arslan Başer Kafaoğlu SBP 7,075 0.18
Arslan Kılıç İP 5,215 0.13
Independents 2,385 0.06
Total 3,865,126 100.00

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