
Voting process ended in renewed Istanbul elections

2019-06-23 17:39:13


	ISTANBUL - Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality Renewal Election voting process ended at 17.00.

	Following the General Elections of March 31 Local Administrations, the Supreme Election Board (YSK) decided to cancel the elections on 6 May and the citizens of Istanbul went to the polls at 08.00. In the election, AKP candidate Binali Yildirim, CHP candidate Ekrem Imamoglu, Saadet Party candidate Necdet Gokcinar and candidate for the Homeland Party Mustafa Ilker Yucel competed with 16 independent candidates.

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	As of 17.00, the election procecss was ended by the YSK.

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	There were some violations during the day. A total of 111 people were processed for photographing a ballot, voting together or in place of someone else, entering the cabinet with a telephone, and displaying their vote.

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	In some places where the seals of the parliamentary elections were used, the YSK accepted the AKP and CHP's application for the votes to be valid in the ballot boxes and decided that the votes would be valid.

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