Clear majority for Erdogan: This is how the Turks in Austria voted

2023-05-15 12:52:00

After counting 97.14 percent of the ballot boxes, the incumbent president received almost 72 percent of the votes, according to figures from the state news agency Anadolu on Monday. Official figures from the electoral authority are not yet available. Opposition leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu received just under 26 percent.

Also in Deutschland the incumbent accounted for almost two-thirds of the votes when almost 98 percent of the ballot boxes were counted. According to this interim figure, Erdogan received almost 65 percent of the votes in Germany, while opposition leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu only got just under 33 percent.

In the Switzerland On the other hand, Kilicdaroglu was able to prevail among Turkish voters. After counting all the ballot boxes, the opposition candidate got 57.60 percent there, while Erdogan only got 40.33 percent. The background here may be that many members of the opposition found refuge in Switzerland after the military coup in 1980.

Runoff election on May 28th

Erdogan thus performed far better in Austria, Germany, but also in France or the Benelux countries, as well as other European countries with many Turks abroad, than in the election as a whole: With 99 percent of the ballot boxes counted in Germany and around 84 percent in the Abroad, according to the head of the electoral authority, Ahmet Yener, he has 49.40 percent of the votes. Kilicdaroglu comes to 44.96 percent. So a runoff on May 28 is the most likely scenario.