The structure of Turkish local government was radically changed ahead of this election. Before 2014, a municipality’s borders did not necessarily overlap with the borders of its host province. Often the biggest municipality covered only the province’s central district (coloured teal on the map), which tended to correspond to the main urban area.

For the 2014 election, municipal borders in Turkey’s 30 largest provinces — known as büyükşehir — were enlarged to overlap precisely with the province borders.

This added all other districts in the province (coloured grey on the map) and new demographic to the electoral roll. eople living in smaller towns, villages and rural areas found themselves voting for the main city’s mayor — in addition to their existing local mayor — for the first time.

Old districts 215,094 voters

New districts in 2014 336,896 voters

2009 results by district type

	Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	AK Party	Orhan Fevzi Gümrükçüoğlu (incumbent) [ELECTED]	273,812	59.39
	CHP	Mehmet Volkan Canalioğlu	114,807	24.9
	MHP	Hüseyin Örs	51,349	11.14
	SP	Dursun Ali Düzenli	12,871	2.79
	HDP	Kadir Türen	473	0.1
		Other parties	7,715	1.67
		Invalid votes	17,680
		Turnout	478,707	86.69
		Registered voters	552,194

Adana – Ankara – Antalya – Aydın – Balıkesir – Bursa – Denizli – Diyarbakır – Erzurum – Eskişehir – Gaziantep – Hatay – İstanbul – İzmir – Kahramanmaraş – Kayseri – Kocaeli – Konya – Malatya – Manisa – Mardin – Mersin – Muğla – Ordu – Sakarya – Samsun – Şanlıurfa – Tekirdağ – Trabzon – Van