# 2024 İzmir mayoral election

Local elections took place in İzmir, the third largest city of Turkey, on 31 March 2024, as part of nationwide local elections. A metropolitan municipal mayor was elected alongside mayors and councillors for the districts of İzmir.
The governing People's Alliance, formed of the Justice and Development Party (AK Party) and the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), fielded AK Party Member of Parliament Hamza Dağ as their candidate. Incumbent Mayor Tunç Soyer, from the opposition Republican People's Party (CHP), was not nominated to stand for re-election. Soyer claimed that the decision was politically motivated as he had backed Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu for CHP party leader instead of the eventual winner Özgür Özel during the party's leadership convention in November 2023. The CHP, which was not part of any electoral alliance, instead nominated Cemil Tugay, the District Mayor of Karşıyaka, one of İzmir's most populous and central districts.
The result was a landslide victory for the Republican People's Party (CHP), for which İzmir has traditionally been seen as a stronghold. Tugay was elected with 49% of the vote compared to Dağ's 37%. Throughout İzmir's districts, the CHP won all but two mayoralties, with the AK Party and MHP each winning one.

## Opinion polls

| Date | Pollster | Sample | CHP | AK PARTY | İYİ | DEM | ZP | Others | Undecided | Lead |
| 29–30 Mar | BETİMAR | 3.722 | 40,9 | 40,6 | 6,6 | 5,3 | 3,0 | 3,6 | — | 0,3 |
| 27–28 Mar | Özdemir | 2.409 | 43,4 | 41,9 | 4,4 | 3,6 | 3,1 | 3,5 | — | 1,5 |
| 25–28 Mar | ORC | 3.220 | 44,9 | 36,2 | 10,6 | 3,8 | — | 4,5 | — | 8,7 |
| 23–26 Mar | AREA | 3.066 | 42,4 | 38,7 | 8 | 6,5 | 2,5 | 1,9 | — | 3,7 |
| 12–26 Mar | Avrasya | ? | 50,4 | 32,1 | — | — | — | 17,5 | — | 18,3 |
| 21–25 Mar | Areda Survey | 2.473 | 43,7 | 37,6 | 9,1 | 4,8 | 2,7 | 2,1 | — | 6,1 |
| 9–17 Mar | ASAL | 2.000 | 45,5 | 35,8 | 6,9 | 5,3 | 2,2 | 4,3 | — | 9,7 |
| 12–16 Mar | Piar | 2.900 | 50,4 | 37,5 | 4,7 | 5,2 | — | 2,2 | — | 12,9 |
| 1–15 Mar | ADA | 1.500 | 42,4 | 38,8 | 6,5 | 7,2 | — | 5,1 | — | 3,6 |
| 11–13 Mar | Özdemir | 5.289 | 36,7 | 34,4 | 6,6 | 7,3 | 9,9 | 5,0 | — | 2,3 |
| 21 Şub-3 Mar | MAK | 3.550 | 48 | 31 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 17 |
| 28 Şub-3 Mar | ORC | 5.400 | 40,1 | 31,2 | 13,6 | 5,5 | — | 3,1 | 6,5 | 8,9 |
| 11–14 Feb | ALF | 2.200 | 40,7 | 32,3 | 7,1 | 4,6 | 2,2 | 2,5 | 10,6 | 8,4 |
| 1–3 Feb | ORC | 2.650 | 38,2 | 34,7 | 8,6 | 5,9 | 1,9 | 2,1 | 8,6 | 3,5 |
| 2024 |||||||||||
| 15–19 Dec | ALF | 2.700 | 49,2 | 34,5 | 6,3 | 6,5 | — | — | 3,5 | 14,7 |
| 2023 |||||||||||
| 31 Mar 2019 | 2019 elections | 2.667.297 | 58,1 | 38,7 | — | — | — | 4,2 | — | 19,4 |

## Results
### Metropolitan municipality mayoral election
#### Overall result

| Candidate | Candidate | Party | Votes | % |
| | Cemil Tugay | Republican People's Party | 1,292,118 | 48.97 |
| | Hamza Dağ | Justice and Development Party | 977,895 | 37.06 |
| | Akın Birdal | DEM Party | 110,600 | 4.19 |
| | Ümit Özlale | Good Party | 96,115 | 3.64 |
| | Naşit Birgüvi | Victory Party | 66,436 | 2.52 |
| | Cemal Arıkan | New Welfare Party | 24,428 | 0.93 |
| | Savaş Sarı | Communist Party of Turkey | 9,392 | 0.36 |
| | Mustafa Erduran | Felicity Party | 9,283 | 0.35 |
| | Burcu Bostancıoğlu | Democrat Party | 9,241 | 0.35 |
| | Cüneyt Oğuz | Homeland Party | 8,989 | 0.34 |
| | Yüksel Odabaşı | Independent Turkey Party | 7,820 | 0.30 |
| | Serap Karaosmanoğlu | Democracy and Progress Party | 6,068 | 0.23 |
| | Kemal Köroğlu | Labour Party | 4,193 | 0.16 |
| | Serhan Bolluk | Patriotic Party | 2,773 | 0.11 |
| | Kemal Cem Pülten | Democratic Left Party | 2,719 | 0.10 |
| | Özler Çakır | People's Liberation Party | 1,901 | 0.07 |
| | Deniz Çelik | Communist Movement of Turkey | 1,570 | 0.06 |
| | Ali Sungur | Motherland Party | 1,539 | 0.06 |
| | Sait Demir | Rights and Freedoms Party | 1,190 | 0.05 |
| | Hüseyin Han | Anatolian Unity Party | 1,128 | 0.04 |
| | Ayperi Köseoğlu | Justice Unity Party | 1,111 | 0.04 |
| | Barış Ürkmeyen | Independent | 433 | 0.02 |
| | Ege Öncü | Independent | 410 | 0.02 |
| | Yasin Demirkıran | Independent | 396 | 0.02 |
| | Umut Cesurer | Independent | 297 | 0.01 |
| | Menderes Bozkurt | Independent | 235 | 0.01 |
| | Cüneyt Aker | Independent | 232 | 0.01 |
| Total | Total | Total | 2,638,512 | 100.00 |
| Valid votes | Valid votes | Valid votes | 2,638,512 | 96.50 |
| Invalid/blank votes | Invalid/blank votes | Invalid/blank votes | 95,595 | 3.50 |
| Total votes | Total votes | Total votes | 2,734,107 | 100.00 |
| Registered voters/turnout | Registered voters/turnout | Registered voters/turnout | 3,459,970 | 79.02 |