When will the final result of the President of the Republic (second round) race be official?

Expected between polls close and 2023-06-11T20:59:59Z (UTC), confidence precedent. Polls closed at 17:00 local (UTC+3, no DST) = 14:00 UTC: Law 298 art. 89, voting 'saat sekizden on yediye kadar' (08:00-17:00); no change of hours by the YSK for this polling day was found. Voting abroad and at customs gates took place on earlier days and is included in the YSK's totals. Law 6271 art. 20(1): the final results are notified by the YSK to the Speaker of the Assembly and the Presidency, announced to the public and published in the Resmî Gazete; no deadline. Window: end of day 14 (Sun 11 Jun 2023 local), after the 2018 precedent (YSK decision 952 of 4 Jul 2018, day 10). Actual: YSK decision 2023/1269, '28 Mayıs 2023 Pazar günü yapılan Cumhurbaşkanı Seçimi ikinci oylaması kesin sonuçlarının tespitine' and item 3 'Bu sonuca göre geçerli oyların salt çoğunluğunu alan Recep Tayyip ERDOĞAN'ın Cumhurbaşkanı seçildiğinin tespitine', taken '01.06.2023 tarihinde oy birliği ile' and published in Resmî Gazete 32208 (Mükerrer) of 1 Jun 2023 (day 4). The decision gives a date only, no time: observedAt is the end of that day, 23:59:59 local (UTC+3) = 20:59:59 UTC. YSK decisions are final and cannot be appealed to any other body (Constitution art. 79), so there is no court-validation stage. No election-night stage is recorded: no YSK document on the provisional count was read for this record.

Where are the official President of the Republic (second round) results?

No single-election results page is recorded yet. The counting authority is Supreme Election Council (https://www.ysk.gov.tr/).

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Turkey runoff 2023

Name: Turkey runoff 2023
Start: 2023-05-28
Location: Turkey

Polling day Sun, 28 May 2023. Counted by Supreme Election Council. Times are Istanbul time; hover for UTC.

Held because no candidate won an absolute majority of the valid votes in the first round of 14 May 2023: YSK decision 2023/1091 (Resmî Gazete 32195 Mükerrer, 19 May 2023), item 3, 'ilk oylamada adayların hiçbirinin geçerli oyların salt çoğunluğunu alamadığına'. Under Constitution art. 101 and Law 6271 art. 4(1) the second round took place on the second Sunday after the first, between the two candidates with the most first-round votes, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (49.52%) and Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu (44.88%).

Final: 1 Jun 2023

Final result declared Thu 1 Jun, 23:59 Istanbul time, published by the authority: resmigazete.gov.tr/eskiler/2023/06/20230601M1-1.pdf. The window was By 11 Jun 2023.

Polls close: Sun 28 May, 17:00
Counted by: Supreme Election Council
Results page: No single-election results page yet.
Authority site: ysk.gov.tr

Result and count stages

Final count

Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan	—	27,834,589	52.2%
Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu	—	25,504,724	47.8%
Total votes		53,339,313

Turnout 84.2%: 54,023,601 ballots from 64,197,454 registered voters.

Table CM/5 'Yurt içi, yurt dışı ve gümrük sandıkları dahil Cumhurbaşkanı seçim sonucu' (Turkey-wide total): registered 64,197,454; voters 54,023,601; valid 53,339,313; invalid 684,288; turnout 84.15%. Shares: Erdoğan 52.18%, Kılıçdaroğlu 47.82%. The table prints names in capitals. Checked twice: rows add up to the valid votes, and domestic (CM/2: 51,418,556), abroad (CM/3: 1,774,459) and customs (CM/4: 146,298) columns add up to each candidate's total; voters and invalid votes add up across the three tables too. Decision item 3 declares Recep Tayyip Erdoğan elected President with an absolute majority of valid votes. Licence: the counts are the YSK's own decision as printed in the Resmî Gazete, the official gazette (resmigazete.gov.tr, issued by the Presidency's Directorate General of Law and Legislation). Neither site states reuse terms for this content: resmigazete.gov.tr carries only the footer '© 2026 Tüm Hakları Saklıdır. Gizlilik, Kullanım ve Telif Hakları bildiriminde belirtilen kurallar çerçevesinde hizmet sunulmaktadır', but that notice is not linked or reachable (3 Oct 2026: /gizlilik, /telif-haklari, /kullanim-ve-telif-haklari etc. all return the home page); ysk.gov.tr carries 'Her Hakkı Saklıdır © 2019' with no terms page (read via r.jina.ai; direct TLS connection refused). Law 5846 on Intellectual and Artistic Works art. 31: 'Resmen yayımlanan veya ilan olunan kanun, Cumhurbaşkanlığı kararnamesi, yönetmelik, tebliğ, genelge ve kazai kararların çoğaltılması, yayılması, işlenmesi veya her hangi bir suretle bunlardan faydalanma serbesttir' (mevzuat.gov.tr/MevzuatMetin/1.3.5846.pdf). Published by Yüksek Seçim Kurulu (decision 2023/1269, Resmî Gazete 32208 Mükerrer), 1 Jun 2023: resmigazete.gov.tr/eskiler/2023/06/20230601M1-1.pdf. Official publication of the Yüksek Seçim Kurulu (YSK decision in the Resmî Gazete); no reuse terms stated.

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Polls closed at 17:00 local (UTC+3, no DST) = 14:00 UTC: Law 298 art. 89, voting 'saat sekizden on yediye kadar' (08:00-17:00); no change of hours by the YSK for this polling day was found. Voting abroad and at customs gates took place on earlier days and is included in the YSK's totals. Law 6271 art. 20(1): the final results are notified by the YSK to the Speaker of the Assembly and the Presidency, announced to the public and published in the Resmî Gazete; no deadline. Window: end of day 14 (Sun 11 Jun 2023 local), after the 2018 precedent (YSK decision 952 of 4 Jul 2018, day 10). Actual: YSK decision 2023/1269, '28 Mayıs 2023 Pazar günü yapılan Cumhurbaşkanı Seçimi ikinci oylaması kesin sonuçlarının tespitine' and item 3 'Bu sonuca göre geçerli oyların salt çoğunluğunu alan Recep Tayyip ERDOĞAN'ın Cumhurbaşkanı seçildiğinin tespitine', taken '01.06.2023 tarihinde oy birliği ile' and published in Resmî Gazete 32208 (Mükerrer) of 1 Jun 2023 (day 4). The decision gives a date only, no time: observedAt is the end of that day, 23:59:59 local (UTC+3) = 20:59:59 UTC. YSK decisions are final and cannot be appealed to any other body (Constitution art. 79), so there is no court-validation stage. No election-night stage is recorded: no YSK document on the provisional count was read for this record.
Observed 1 Jun 2023, 23:59

Results sources 7 pages, 0 can answer a results question

URL	Role	Kind	Can answer a results question	Last check
resmigazete.gov.tr/eskiler/2023/06/20230601M1-1.pdf	results-final	other	no (election page without a results marker)	not checked yet
ysk.gov.tr/tr/karar/liste	results-final	other	no (no election or results marker)	not checked yet
sonuc.ysk.gov.tr	results-live	emb home	no (site root: cannot answer a results question)	not checked yet
mevzuat.gov.tr/mevzuat	timetable	other	no (no election or results marker)	not checked yet
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Turkish_presidential_election	see-also	other	no (election page without a results marker)	not checked yet
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Provenance: researcher agent 2026-10-03: YSK decisions 2023/1269 (Resmî Gazete 32208 Mükerrer, 1 Jun 2023) and 2023/1091 (Resmî Gazete 32195 Mükerrer, 19 May 2023), page images read from resmigazete.gov.tr; Law 298 art. 89; Law 6271 arts. 4, 20; Constitution arts. 79, 101; Law 5846 art. 31 (mevzuat.gov.tr) (CC BY 4.0 (Election Index); vote counts Official publication of the Yüksek Seçim Kurulu (YSK decision in the Resmî Gazete); no reuse terms stated). Last verified 2026-10-03.

Questions and answers

When is the Turkey runoff 2023?: Polling day is 2023-05-28 (officially set). Held because no candidate won an absolute majority of the valid votes in the first round of 14 May 2023: YSK decision 2023/1091 (Resmî Gazete 32195 Mükerrer, 19 May 2023), item 3, 'ilk oylamada adayların hiçbirinin geçerli oyların salt çoğunluğunu alamadığına'. Under Constitution art. 101 and Law 6271 art. 4(1) the second round took place on the second Sunday after the first, between the two candidates with the most first-round votes, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (49.52%) and Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu (44.88%).
When will the final result of the President of the Republic (second round) race be official?: Expected between polls close and 2023-06-11T20:59:59Z (UTC), confidence precedent. Polls closed at 17:00 local (UTC+3, no DST) = 14:00 UTC: Law 298 art. 89, voting 'saat sekizden on yediye kadar' (08:00-17:00); no change of hours by the YSK for this polling day was found. Voting abroad and at customs gates took place on earlier days and is included in the YSK's totals. Law 6271 art. 20(1): the final results are notified by the YSK to the Speaker of the Assembly and the Presidency, announced to the public and published in the Resmî Gazete; no deadline. Window: end of day 14 (Sun 11 Jun 2023 local), after the 2018 precedent (YSK decision 952 of 4 Jul 2018, day 10). Actual: YSK decision 2023/1269, '28 Mayıs 2023 Pazar günü yapılan Cumhurbaşkanı Seçimi ikinci oylaması kesin sonuçlarının tespitine' and item 3 'Bu sonuca göre geçerli oyların salt çoğunluğunu alan Recep Tayyip ERDOĞAN'ın Cumhurbaşkanı seçildiğinin tespitine', taken '01.06.2023 tarihinde oy birliği ile' and published in Resmî Gazete 32208 (Mükerrer) of 1 Jun 2023 (day 4). The decision gives a date only, no time: observedAt is the end of that day, 23:59:59 local (UTC+3) = 20:59:59 UTC. YSK decisions are final and cannot be appealed to any other body (Constitution art. 79), so there is no court-validation stage. No election-night stage is recorded: no YSK document on the provisional count was read for this record.
Where are the official President of the Republic (second round) results?: No single-election results page is recorded yet. The counting authority is Supreme Election Council (https://www.ysk.gov.tr/).