page_title: 2014 Turkish presidential election
section_title: Overseas results
hierarchical_section_title: 2014 Turkish presidential election / Results / Overseas results
caption_attribution_description: English: Map showing the distribution of overseas vote for Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu in the 2014 Turkish presidential election. Original version by Roke is here.
context_page_description: Presidential elections were held in Turkey on 10 August 2014 in order to elect the 12th President. Incumbent Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was elected outright with an absolute majority of the vote in the first round, making a scheduled run-off for 24 August unnecessary.
  The election took place under reforms resulting from the 2007 constitutional referendum, which introduced a direct national vote, rather than election by members of the parliament. Over 55 million people were eligible to vote, both within Turkey and abroad.
  Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, leader of the AKP, first elected Prime Minister in 2002, won with 51.79% of the vote. Former Organisation of Islamic Cooperation General Secretary Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu, who ran as the joint candidate of 13 opposition parties including the Republican People's Party and Nationalist Movement Party, came second with 38.44%. The co-leader of the Peoples' Democratic Party Selahattin Demirtaş, who received the backing of 8 left-wing parties, came third with 9.76%.
  Erdoğan took over as President from Abdullah Gül on 28 August, while Ahmet Davutoğlu, who was elected leader of the AKP, succeeded Erdoğan as Prime Minister on the same date.
context_section_description: Results are listed in alphabetical order. Although Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu won the most pluralities and majorities, the significantly larger Turkish electorate in countries that heavily voted for Erdoğan resulted in Erdoğan breaking many predictions by receiving nearly two thirds of the overseas vote. In Cairo, the city in which İhsanoğlu was born, 53.73% voted for İhsanoğlu with 44.03% voting for Erdoğan. Regardless, İhsanoğlu won in Egypt by just one vote, due to large support for Erdoğan in Alexandria. Note that in the maps, Greenland is considered part of Denmark, despite the fact that no voting took place in Greenland.
  A summary of the numbers of countries won by each candidate is shown below.
caption: Results obtained by Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu by country
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