Turkey Presidential election 2023 — Results
First round: May 14, 2023
Runoff: May 28, 2023
- Recep Tayyip Erdoğan: 52.18%
- Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu: 47.82%
About this election
Political system
Under the executive presidency, the president is head of state and government, elected directly for a five-year term by a two-round system: a candidate winning more than half the valid votes in the first round is elected, otherwise the top two contest a runoff two weeks later. The 2023 election was held on the same day as the parliamentary vote and was widely described as the most consequential in Turkey's modern history — a referendum on twenty years of Erdoğan's rule and on the direction of the country in its second century.
Compiled and reviewed from official results by ElectioMap. See our data methodology.
In numbers
- 4.36 points separated Recep Tayyip Erdoğan from Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu.
- Recep Tayyip Erdoğan moved −0.41 points against the 2018 presidential election (52.59% → 52.18%).
Calculated from the official figures on this page and from the other elections of this type in our archive.
Understanding this election
- How a Constituency Map Gets Built — what happens when no boundary file matches the districts
- How We Check an Election Figure — the checks every number passes before publication
- How Live Election Data Is Collected and Verified — from ballot box to published figure