1994 Turkish local elections

1994 Turkish local elections

27 March 1994 (1994-03-27)
All 3,215 district municipalities and 16 metropolitan municipalities of Turkey
Majority party Minority party Third party   Leader Tansu Çiller Mesut Yılmaz Necmettin Erbakan Party DYP ANAP Welfare Last election 23.13% 21.80% 9.80% Popular vote 6,027,095 5,937,031 5,388,195 Percentage 21.40% 21.08% 19.13% Swing 3.73pp 0.72pp 9.33pp   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Leader Murat Karayalçın Bülent Ecevit Alparslan Türkeş Party SHP DSP MHP Last election 28,69% 9.03% – Popular vote 3,807,921 2,463,853 2,239,117 Percentage 13,52% 8.75% 7.95% Swing 15.17pp 0.27pp New   Seventh party   Leader Deniz Baykal Party CHP Last election – Popular vote 1,297,371 Percentage 4,61% Swing New
Winners of the 81 provincial capitals   DYP   SHP   ANAP   RP   MHP Four different elections in order to elect both types of councillor and mayor were held on the same day. The results shown here are the provincial 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 in Turkey on 27 March 1994.

Results

Provincial assemblies

Party		Votes	%
	True Path Party	6,027,095	21.41
	Motherland Party	5,937,031	21.09
	Welfare Party	5,388,195	19.14
	Social Democratic Populist Party	3,807,921	13.53
	Democratic Left Party	2,463,853	8.75
	Nationalist Movement Party	2,239,117	7.95
	Republican People's Party	1,297,371	4.61
	Great Unity Party	355,271	1.26
	Democratic Party	148,719	0.53
	Nation Party	126,118	0.45
	Rebirth Party	104,285	0.37
	Socialist Unity Party	80,714	0.29
	Workers' Party	79,588	0.28
	Independent	96,913	0.34
Total		28,152,191	100.00

Metropolitan municipality mayors

Metropolitan municipality	Mayor	Party
Adana	Aytaç Durak	Motherland Party (ANAP)
Ankara	Melih Gökçek	Welfare Party (RP)
Antalya	Hasan Subaşı	True Path Party (DYP)
Bursa	Erdem Saker	Motherland Party (ANAP)
Diyarbakır	Ahmet Bilgin	Welfare Party (RP)
Erzurum	Ersan Gemalmaz	Welfare Party (RP)
Eskişehir	Aydın Arat	True Path Party (DYP)
Gaziantep	Celal Doğan	Social Democratic Populist Party (SHP)
İstanbul	Recep Tayyip Erdoğan	Welfare Party (RP)
İzmir	Burhan Özfatura	True Path Party (DYP)
Kayseri	Şükrü Karatepe	Welfare Party (RP)
Kocaeli	Sefa Sirmen	Social Democratic Populist Party (SHP)
Konya	Halil Ürün	Welfare Party (RP)
Mersin	Okan Merzeci	Motherland Party (ANAP)
Samsun	Muzaffer Önder	Republican People's Party (CHP)

Mayor of other municipalities

Province Party Adıyaman RP Afyonkarahisar ANAP Ağrı RP Aksaray RP Amasya MHP Ardahan DYP Artvin DYP Aydın ANAP Balıkesir DYP Bartın ANAP Batman RP Bayburt RP Bilecik DYP Bingöl RP Bitlis RP Bolu SHP

Province Party Burdur SHP Çanakkale CHP Çankırı MHP Çorum RP Denizli CHP Edirne CHP Elazığ RP Erzincan MHP Giresun ANAP Gümüşhane DYP Hakkâri SHP Hatay ANAP Iğdır DYP Isparta DYP Karaman CHP

Province Party Kars MHP Kastamonu MHP Kırıkkale ANAP Kırklareli SHP Kırşehir MHP Kütahya RP Malatya RP Manisa ANAP Kahramanmaraş RP Mardin DYP Muğla SHP Muş RP Nevşehir RP Niğde SHP Ordu ANAP

Province Party Rize RP Sakarya RP Siirt RP Sinop SHP Şırnak ANAP Sivas RP Tekirdağ ANAP Tokat RP Trabzon RP Tunceli SHP Şanlıurfa RP Uşak DYP Van RP Yozgat MHP Zonguldak ANAP

External links

• Results of the local elections (in Turkish) Archived 2009-05-03 at the Wayback Machine