Electoral record
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
President of Türkiye since 2014 and the dominant figure of Turkish politics for over two decades; re-elected in the May 2023 run-off.
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Electoral record
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- 2023RecordedCandidacy
Won re-election in the presidential run-off with 52.18% of the vote (27,834,589 votes), after leading the first round with 49.52% (27,133,849 votes).
Turkey's 2023 elections — House of Commons Library - 2023Subject of a findingAction
ODIHR found that, as the incumbent, he and the ruling parties enjoyed an unjustified advantage in the campaign, including through biased media coverage, while restrictions on fundamental freedoms hindered parts of the opposition.
Türkiye's 2023 general elections: ODIHR election observation mission final report — OSCE/ODIHR
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Primary sources
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Sources
- Turkey's 2023 elections— House of Commons Library
- Türkiye's 2023 general elections: ODIHR election observation mission final report— OSCE/ODIHR