2004 Istanbul mayoral election

2004 Istanbul mayoral election
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Registered6,440,606
Turnout4,400,637 (68.33%)
  First party Second party
 
Candidate Kadir Topbaş Mehmet Sefa Sirmen
Party AKP CHP
Popular vote 1,917,577 1,223,856
Percentage 45.3% 28.9%
Districts won by each candidate
     Kadir Topbaş (22)       Mehmet Sefa Sirmen (5)
Mayor before election

Ali Müfit Gürtuna
Independent

Elected mayor

Kadir Topbaş
AKP

The election of Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality was held on 28 March 2004, alongside all local body elections (officially known as the 28 March 2004 Local Administrations General Elections) of Turkey. In the election, Recep Tayyip Erdogan's new AK Party won the election. AK Party's mayoral candidate Kadir Topbas became the mayor of Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality.[1][2][3]

  1. ^ "İşte belediye başkan adayları". Hürriyet (in Turkish). 24 February 2004. Archived from the original on 18 March 2017.
  2. ^ BBC News Turkish https://web.archive.org/web/20190111233250/http://www.bbc.co.uk/turkish/yerel_secim/belediye2.xml. Archived from the original on 11 January 2019. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  3. ^ "CHP'nin belediye başkan adayları". Hürriyet. 24 February 2004. Archived from the original on 13 October 2023. Retrieved 4 October 2023.