1989 Turkish local elections

1989 Turkish local elections

26 March 1989 (1989-03-26)

Majority party Minority party Third party   Leader Erdal İnönü Süleyman Demirel Turgut Özal Party SHP DYP ANAP Popular vote 6,354,252 5,565,776 4,828,164 Percentage 28.69% 25.13% 21.80%   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Leader Necmettin Erbakan Bülent Ecevit Alparslan Türkeş Party RP DSP MÇP Popular vote 2,170,431 1,998,819 916,405 Percentage 9,80% 9.03% 4.14%

Local elections were held in Turkey on 26 March 1989. In the elections, both the mayors and the local parliaments (Turkish: İl Genel Meclisi) were elected. The figures presented below are the results of the local parliament elections.

Results

In the elections, the ANAP suffered a nationwide rout in what many saw as a referendum on the Özal administration.

Provincial assemblies

Party		Votes	%
	Social Democratic Populist Party	6,354,252	28.69
	True Path Party	5,565,776	25.13
	Motherland Party	4,828,164	21.80
	Welfare Party	2,170,431	9.80
	Democratic Left Party	1,998,819	9.03
	Nationalist Task Party	916,405	4.14
	Reformist Democracy Party	208,725	0.94
	Independents	103,755	0.47
Total		22,146,327	100.00

Metropolitan center mayors

Metropolitan center	Mayor	Party
Adana	Selahattin Çolak	SHP
Ankara	Murat Karayalçın	SHP
Bursa	Teoman Özalp	DYP
Gaziantep	Celal Doğan	SHP
Istanbul	Nurettin Sözen	SHP
İzmir	Yüksel Çakmur	SHP
Kayseri	Niyazi Bahçeci	SHP
Konya	Halil Ürün	RP

Mayor of other centers

Province Party Adapazarı SHP Adıyaman SHP Afyonkarahisar DYP Ağrı SHP Amasya DYP Antalya DYP Artvin SHP Aydın DYP Balıkesir DYP Bilecik SHP Bingöl SHP Bitlis ANAP Bolu SHP Burdur SHP Çanakkale SHP

Province Party Çankırı DYP Çorum SHP Denizli SHP Diyarbakır SHP Edirne SHP Elazığ MÇP Erzincan MÇP Erzurum DYP Eskişehir SHP Giresun SHP Gümüşhane DYP Hakkâri ANAP Hatay SHP Isparta DYP İzmit SHP

Province Party Kars SHP Kastamonu SHP Kırklareli SHP Kırşehir SHP Kütahya DYP Malatya ANAP Manisa DYP Mersin SHP Kahramanmaraş RP Mardin SHP Muğla SHP Muş DYP Nevşehir DYP Niğde SHP Ordu SHP

Province Party Rize DYP Samsun SHP Siirt SHP Sinop SHP Sivas RP Tekirdağ SHP Tokat DYP Trabzon SHP Tunceli IND. Şanlıurfa RP Uşak SHP Van RP Yozgat MÇP Zonguldak SHP