Turkey election: Erdoğan’s AKP wins outright majority – as it happened - by Matthew Weaver

With most of the votes now counted - here’s a summary of the election and its aftermath.

• Turkey’s strongman president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, tightened his grip on power decisively as his ruling Justice and Development party (AKP) swept back to single-party government with a convincing win in national elections. With more than 95% of the votes counted, the party won almost 50% of the vote. That would give it about 325 seats in the 550-seat parliament, comfortably ahead of its three main rival parties and easily enough to form a government on its own.
• Prime minister and AKP leader, Ahmet Davutoğlu, hailed the result as “victory for democracy”. Addressing party supporters at a victory rally he said: “Hopefully we will serve you well for the next four years.”
• The Leftist pro-Kurdish HDP surpassed the 10% threshold necessary to win seats in the new Parliament. But its support dipped from the 13% it secured in June’s elections to just over 10%.

Note EU-Digest: Turks have probably voted themselves into a permanent dictatorship by Mr. Erdogan and his religiously oriented AKP.
 
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