Unofficial Turkish Election Results Show an Erdogan Lead

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Post by solar_warehouse » Sun, May 14, 2023, 8:10 PM UTC

Unofficial Turkish Election Results Show an Erdogan Lead
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Re: Unofficial Turkish Election Results Show an Erdogan Lead

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Post by solar_warehouse » Sun, May 14, 2023, 8:30 PM UTC

Turkish Electoral system requires at least a simple majority for the presidency stage (50% + 1 vote) and seems like none of the candidates will be able to reach it (assuming the trend stays the same). This will result with an unclear 2 weeks when the elections (only for the presidency part, not the parliment) will have to repeat between the two most voted candidates (Erdogan and his opponent).

Re: Unofficial Turkish Election Results Show an Erdogan Lead

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Post by Fatnino » Mon, May 15, 2023, 4:57 AM UTC

solar_warehouse wrote: post #2

Turkish Electoral system requires at least a simple majority for the presidency stage (50% + 1 vote) and seems like none of the candidates will be able to reach it (assuming the trend stays the same). This will result with an unclear 2 weeks when the elections (only for the presidency part, not the parliment) will have to repeat between the two most voted candidates (Erdogan and his opponent).

And the spoiler third candidate here is farther right than Erdoğan so basically a big waste of time for everyone while a run off election elects him again.