Turkey Presidential election 2018 — Results
Election day: June 24, 2018
- Recep Tayyip Erdoğan: 52.59%
- Muharrem İnce: 30.64%
- Selahattin Demirtaş: 8.40%
- Meral Akşener: 7.29%
- Temel Karamollaoğlu: 0.89%
- Doğu Perinçek: 0.20%
Turnout: 86.24%
About this election
Political system
This was the election that brought Turkey's executive presidency into being. Under the system approved in 2017, the president is both head of state and head of government, with no prime minister; he appoints the cabinet and vice-presidents, issues decrees, and is elected directly for a five-year term, renewable once, with a two-round system requiring an absolute majority to win. Presidential and parliamentary elections are held on the same day, and the 2018 vote was the first to combine them.
Compiled and reviewed from official results by ElectioMap. See our data methodology.
In numbers
- 21.95 points separated Recep Tayyip Erdoğan from Muharrem İnce.
- The top two shared 83.23% of the vote between them, and 4 lists cleared 5%.
Calculated from the official figures on this page and from the other elections of this type in our archive.
Understanding this election
- Presidential vs Parliamentary Elections — why forming a government takes months in some systems
- Why Official Results Sometimes Take Weeks — the stages between the count and the legal result
- How a Constituency Map Gets Built — what happens when no boundary file matches the districts