4th Justice and Development Party Ordinary Congress

2012 Justice and Development Party leadership election
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Registered1,489 delegates
Turnout95.63%
 
Candidate Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
Party AK Party
Constituency İstanbul (I)
Delegate vote 1,421
Percentage 100%
Leader before election

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
AK Party

Elected Leader

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
AK Party

The 4th Justice and Development Party Ordinary Congress was a party convention of the governing Turkish Justice and Development Party (AK Party) that took place on 30 September 2012. The congress mainly centred on the Kurdish–Turkish conflict.

The AKP's founding party leader Recep Tayyip Erdoğan stood as the only candidate for the party leadership, with 1,489 registered delegates voting in the election. Erdoğan was re-elected as leader with 1,421 votes. The congress was held a year after the AK Party's third consecutive landslide victory in the 2011 general election.