2023 Turkish general election

2023 Turkish general election

14 May 2023
Opinion polls
14 May 2023 (first round)
28 May 2023 (second round)
 
Nominee Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu
Party AK Party CHP
Alliance People's Alliance Nation Alliance
Popular vote 27,834,589 25,504,704
Percentage 52.18% 47.82%


President before election

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
AK Party

Elected President

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
AK Party

14 May 2023
Party Leader Vote % Seats +/–
AK Party Recep Tayyip Erdoğan 35.61 268 −27
CHP Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu 25.33 169 +23
YSGP Çiğdem Kılıçgün Uçar, İbrahim Akın 8.81 61 −6
MHP Devlet Bahçeli 10.07 50 +1
İYİ Meral Akşener 9.69 43 0
YRP Fatih Erbakan 2.82 5 +5
TİP Erkan Baş 1.73 4 +4
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.

General elections were held in Turkey on 14 May 2023, combining presidential elections and parliamentary elections to elect 600 members of the Grand National Assembly.

Election monitors criticized the conduct of the elections, observing restrictions on fundamental freedoms of assembly, association and expression. There was political interference in the electoral process, threats of throttling social media platforms, arrests of people posting criticisms on social media, and fines against media organizations that criticized the government. The state-run media heavily favored the AK Party, led by incumbent president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Popular political opponents were jailed or intimidated during the election campaign. A 2023 study in PLOS One found that the election was "riddled with statistical irregularities, that may be indicative of electoral fraud."