The leading opposition party, the social democratic Kemalist CHP, increased its vote share, as did a number of smaller parties including the SP, DTP and BBP, whose party leader Muhsin Yazıcıoğlu had died in a helicopter crash four days before the election.

The third largest party, the Turkish nationalist MHP, enjoyed a more modest vote surge.

[2] The AKP failed to take certain provinces it had publicly targeted, such as Diyarbakır,[3] İzmir and Urfa,[4] and did not achieve its goal of exceeding 47% of the overall vote.

[5] There was localized election-related fighting in southeastern Turkey, in which five people were reported to have been killed and about a hundred injured.

Elections were also held for district mayors (ilçe başkanı) as well as neighbourhood presidents (muhtar).