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The latest election results in Turkey
With 99.78% of votes counted Erdogan was sitting with 49.25% according to private news agency ANKA’s preliminary figures, while opposition leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu had 45.05%.
The majority of ballots from the 3.4 million eligible overseas voters still needed to be tallied, according to the Supreme Electoral Board.
Erdogan won around 60% of the overseas vote in the 2018 election.
