^Four different elections in order to elect both types of councillor and mayor were held on the same day. The results shown here are theprovincial councillor election results, which best reflect the overall voting intentions of the electorate. See the results section for the full results.
Local elections were held inTurkey on 29 March 2009. The overall winner was the ruling partyJustice and Development Party, although the party saw a decline in its vote relative to the2007 general election. The leading opposition party, the social democratic KemalistCHP, increased its vote share, as did a number of smaller parties including theSP,DTP andBBP, whose party leaderMuhsin Yazıcıoğlu had died in ahelicopter crash four days before the election. The third largest party, the Turkish nationalistMHP, enjoyed a more modest vote surge.[1] The election was not contested byCem Uzan'sGP.[2] The AKP failed to take certainprovinces it had publicly targeted, such asDiyarbakır,[3]İzmir andUrfa,[4] and did not achieve its goal of exceeding 47% of the overall vote.[5]There was localized election-related fighting in southeastern Turkey, in which five people were reported to have been killed and about a hundred injured.[5]
Flags of political parties before the Turkish municipal elections inŞile. The most visible ones are Nationalist Movement Party and Justice and Development Party) flags.CHP (Republican People's Party) election bus before the Turkish municipal elections inKadıköy,Istanbul
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