The Turkish runoff is coming to an end – but Turks living in Austria can only vote until Wednesday. With them, Erdogan was clearly ahead in the first ballot.
Turkish voters abroad can choose between incumbent Recep Tayyip Erdogan and opposition candidate Kemal Kilicdaroglu in the runoff. The results will be announced after the vote in Turkey on May 28. Around 108,000 Turkish citizens are entitled to vote in Austria. You have been able to vote since Saturday. Erdogan is the favorite in the voting. In the first round on May 14, he was about 4.5 percentage points ahead of the CHP’s Kilicdaroglu, but missed the necessary absolute majority. Turks abroad voted 57.70 percent for the incumbent. Kilicdaroglu received almost 40 percent of the votes (see graphic below).if(!apaResc)var apaResc=function(a){var e=window.addEventListener?”addEventListener”:”attachEvent”,t,n;(0,window[e])(“attachEvent”==e?”onmessage”:”message”,function(e){if(e.data[a]) for(var t=document.getElementsByClassName(a),n=0;n!=t.length;n++) t[n].style.height=e.data[a]+”px”},!1)}; apaResc(“apa-0727-23”);Erdogan in Austria recently clearly aheadIn Austria, according to preliminary figures, almost 72 percent of voters voted for Erdogan. The incumbent did particularly well in an international comparison. By Tuesday afternoon, around 1.5 million people had already voted abroad. That accounts for 46.3 percent of those entitled to vote. In 2018, a total of 44.6 percent of those eligible to vote abroad voted. In the first round of the presidential election, participation abroad was 49.4 percent, higher than in 2018. At that time there was only one ballot.
