Votes Recounted, Results Not Changed in Kars and Bartın

*Photo: AA

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Appeals against the results and recounting continues all across Turkey after the March 31 local elections.

In the eastern province of Kars, the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) won the elections. The Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) appealed against the results. After the recount, the HDP's votes increased by 17 and the party was declared the winner.

HDP's candidate for Kars, Ayhan Bilgen, tweeted, "The recounting finished in Kars. Our votes increased by 17. Thanks to everyone who worked in the courthouse and who waited in front of it until the morning."

HDP supporters waited until the recounting is completed. *Photo: HDP

In Bartın, where the candidate of the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), Cemal Akın, won the election by a margin of 169 votes, both the Justice and Development Party (AKP) and the MHP objected to the results. After recounting, Akın remained as the winner.

He said that he won the elections by a 149-vote margin. Both parties announced that they will appeal against the results again. (AÖ/VK)