Election board confirms victory of incumbent over opposition candidate Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu after runoff
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Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has extended his two decades in power, securing victory over his rival Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu after an unprecedented presidential runoff election, in a vote that reflected Turkey’s stark and persistent political polarisation.
With 99.43% of the vote counted, Turkey’s supreme election authority announced late on Sunday that Erdoğan had won 52.14% of the votes, while Kılıçdaroğlu received 47.86%. With a gap of more than 2mvotes between candidates, the rest of the uncounted votes will not change the result, said Ahmet Yener, the head of the election board.
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