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For a province or district results page to appear in searches such as "Ankara election results", the page must already be live, crawled and indexed. Results pages for past elections start this clock today.
In Türkiye, presidential and parliamentary elections are held on the same day, and on the regular calendar the next date is in 2028. This page explains what news sites and publishers that will publish results that night need, and where KEYDAL Seçim stands in this preparation.
Under Constitution Art. 77, elections for the Grand National Assembly (TBMM) and the Presidency are held on the same day every five years. The last general election was held on 14 May 2023; the presidential election concluded with the runoff on 28 May 2023.
The rule that sets voting day is written in law: under Law No. 6271 on Presidential Elections, Art. 3 and Law No. 2839 on Parliamentary Elections, Art. 6, the vote is cast on the last Sunday before five years have passed since the previous election. Since 14 May 2028 is a Sunday, the regular date calculated under this rule is 7 May 2028. The election calendar starts 60 days before voting day.
This date applies if no decision is made to renew elections. Constitution Art. 116 allows elections to be renewed earlier by a three-fifths majority of the total membership of the Grand National Assembly (TBMM) or by decision of the President, and there is public debate about an earlier date in 2028. As of 11 November 2026 there is no official renewal decision. We cover the possibility of an early election separately on our 2027 election software page.
Holding the general election and the presidential election on the same day means a results site must show two separate elections, with two separate logics, on the same night. The table below summarizes these needs together with their legal basis:
| Konu | Rule | Impact on a results site |
|---|---|---|
| Presidential | An absolute majority of valid votes is required; if none is reached, a runoff between the top two candidates is held on the second Sunday (Constitution Art. 101, Law No. 6271, Art. 4). | Candidate-based results and, for a possible runoff, a second busy night two weeks later. |
| Parliamentary | 600 seats, the d'Hondt system and a 7 percent national threshold (Law No. 2839, Arts. 4, 33, 34). Alliances are assessed together for the threshold. | Party and alliance votes and the distribution by electoral district should be shown separately. |
| Broadcast ban | Until 18:00 on voting day no broadcasts about results may be made; between 18:00 and 21:00 only YSK announcements may be published (Law No. 298, Art. 80). | Results pages should be ready but opened in line with the ban hours. |
| Opinion polls | No polls or predictions may be published in the 10 days before voting day (Law No. 298, Art. 55/B). | The pre-election content calendar should be planned around this ban. |
For details on election day broadcasting rules, you can check our article on how late the election day broadcast ban lasts and our broadcast ban tool for more information.
Election results pages opened in election week cannot become visible in search engines in time. Most of the preparation is done months before the election.
For a province or district results page to appear in searches such as "Ankara election results", the page must already be live, crawled and indexed. Results pages for past elections start this clock today.
On election night, what readers most want to know is "what changed since last time". Having the 2018 and 2023 results ready with province-district breakdowns makes it possible to present the 2028 results in context.
Election night traffic is nothing like an ordinary news day. On a hosted platform, servers, caching and scaling are the provider's responsibility; you focus on content.
Features described on the product page that are completed today:
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