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Neither candidate crossed the 50% mark for an outright victory on May 14, triggering an unprecedented second round of voting.

The counting of votes is underway for the second round of the presidential election in Türkiye.

The ban on the announcement of the results is set to be lifted at 6:30 p.m. (1530 GMT), with the results likely to appear earlier than May 14, given that voters have only two options to choose from this time. -this.

Polling stations open at 8 a.m. (0500 GMT) on Sunday and close at 5 p.m. (1400 GMT).

Results will be posted below as they become available.

Yield card:

First round results

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan won 49.52% of the vote on May 14, with his main opponent Kemal Kilicdaroglu obtaining 44.88%.

The third candidate, nationalist Sinan Ogan, won 5.17% of the vote and then backed Erdogan for a runoff.

According to Anadolu Agency, 88.84% of the 64 million eligible Turkish voters voted in the first round.

Hover over each province to see how each candidate performed in the first round.

Erdogan versus Kilicdaroglu

The ruling Turkish People’s Alliance and the Alliance of Opposition Nations differ in several key areas. Here is a breakdown of their policies and promises:

Recep Tayip Erdogan, 69 years old

Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi (Justice and Development Party, also known as AK Party)
People’s Alliance candidate

• The current president has been in power for 20 years, including nine as president and 11 as prime minister, from 2003 to 2014.
• He was mayor of Istanbul from 1994 to 1998.
• He is now seeking a third consecutive presidential term.
• It was his toughest election amid economic hardship and earthquake damage.

Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, 74 years old

Cumhuriyet Halk Partesi (CHP or Republican People’s Party)
Candidate of the Alliance of Nations

• He chaired the CHP for over a decade.
• Before entering politics, he was a specialist in the Ministry of Finance and headed the Social Insurance Institute for most of the 1990s.
• He presided over a series of electoral defeats in the CHP, but is running as the unity candidate for the Six Nations Alliance with the backing of Turkey’s second largest opposition party, the pro-Kurdish HDP.
• He pledged to bring Turkey back to a “robust parliamentary system”.