Latest Result in İstanbul Election Recount: Opposition Candidate Ahead by 15,823 Votes

In İstanbul, the opposition's candidate İmamoğlu is ahead of his AKP rival Yıldırım by 15,823 votes, with recount being completed in the 90 percent of the ballot boxes.

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*YSK Chair Sadi Güven (Photo: CHP Ümraniye District Organization)

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The main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) MP Sezgin Tanrıkulu shared the latest figures by the Supreme Election Council (YSK) on the recounts in İstanbul districts after the March 31 local polls:

CHP candidate Ekrem İmamoğlu: 4,171,216 votes

AKP (the ruling Justice and Development Party) candidate Binali Yıldırım: 4,155,393 votes.

Difference: 15,823

Completion of the recount of the invalid votes: 90 percent

YSK Chair: "The judicial process is continuing"

AKP appealed for a recount for all the votes in Ankara and İstanbul yesterday (April 8). The YSK has three days to respond.

YSK Chair Sadi Güven said that he cannot comment on the recounts as "the judicial process is continuing," speaking to the journalists.

"The judicial process is continuing, I don't make any evaluations. It is not possible because the judicial process is continuing," he said. (AS/PT/VK)