AKP ruling political party in Turkey has Winn several seats in Turkey election as well as regaining majority seats which it had lost in June. AKP won 49.4% of votes while the opposition party CPH won 25.4% of votes.
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said voters had "shown that they prefer action and development to controversy". The pro-Kurdish HDP crossed the 10% threshold needed to claim seats. The nationalist MHP will also take seats in Ankara.In a statement, Mr Erdogan said the electorate had "given proof of their strong desire for the unity and integrity" of Turkey.
With almost all of the results counted, the AKP had won substantially more than the 276 seats needed to get a majority, allowing it to form a government on its own. However, it fell 14 seats short of the amount needed to call a referendum on changing the constitution and increasing the powers of the president, AKP founder Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
And with 60 more seats, the government would have been able to bring in those changes without a referendum. The AKP's opponents had said the vote was a chance to curb what it sees as the increasingly authoritarian tendencies of Mr Erdogan.
After its shock landslide victory, the AK Party today begins the process of forming a new government, regaining the majority it lost in the election in June. It almost equalled its best ever result, swaying voters with its message of stability after weeks of violence with the PKK Kurdish rebels. There is now the hope that the two sides may be spurred to return to peace talks.
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