Both parties argued about how the ballot statistics should be presented as Turkey’s election night came closer. Both sides said that they were in the lead in the vote count.
In order to push their candidate Kemal Kilicdaroglu behind President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the opposition complained about the figures released by the state-run Anadolu news agency.
After 20 years in power, Erdogan is running for re-election and Anadolu’s numbers showed him with 50.13 percent of the vote, which would have won him the election in the first round and prevented a runoff.
Kilicdaroglu, the front-runner for a coalition of six parties led by his Republican People’s Party (CHP), received 44.09 percent of the vote.
Anka news agency data, however, suggested that Erdogan’s lead was considerably more marginal, with the president receiving 48.87 percent of the national vote and Kilicdaroglu receiving 45.38 percent.
After updating its numbers, Anadolu reported that Erdogan received 49.94% of the vote.
