Why did President Erdogan and the AK Party succeed in garnering majority votes in earthquake-hit areas?
were the two epicenters of the back-to-back earthquakes on February 6 with the magnitudes of 7.7 and 7.6 respectively, was a clear victim of the quakes.
In terms of the parliamentary election results, Erdogan’s AK Party also did very well, receiving nearly 48 percent against CHP’s 16 percent. The AK Party’s ally, National Movement Party , received 16 percent, equaling the CHP’s share of vote in the earthquake epicenter. In the parliamentary election, the AK Party also had a large margin with the CHP, receiving 52 percent against the leftist party’s 19 percent.
69.39 percent of Malatya residents voted for Erdogan against Kilicdaroglu’s 27.02 percent in the presidential election. The province also chose the AK Party over the CHP in the parliamentary election with a big margin.70,000 residences and 25,300 village houses for earthquake survivors.President Erdogan attends a groundbreaking ceremony in Malatya, an eastern Anatolian province hit by the twin earthquakes.
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