Live results from parliamentary and presidential elections, with incumbent expected to win first round – but he could miss 50% threshold for victory‘People are smiling again’: opposition finds its voiceTurkish elections: everything you need to knowSimon Tisdall: Erdoğan is a threat to Turkey – and the world 2.57pm BST Kareem Shaheen has been tweeting some evocative pictures of voters he spoke to at an polling station in Cihangir, Istanbul as polls draw to close:Fulya came to vote with her oxygen tank today. “We want the parliamentary system back. We are against one-man rule. Everyone must be represented.” pic.twitter.com/tBoPGontX0Şeyda brought her daughter to the polling station today: “They are the future of this country. Everything isn’t a rose garden, they have to see the reality.” pic.twitter.com/lSMu6jbRYt 2.53pm BST Polls close in about 10 minutes. Votes in the country’s 188,000 ballot boxes will then be counted, individually and aloud and in the presence of observers, before an official declaration for that box is drawn up and witnessed. The boxes are then resealed, with the ballots inside, and carried to regional counting centres where they are repoened, reocunted, and the results fed into the electoral commission’s computer system. Continue reading…
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