Another regional. Diyarbakir (70.53% reporting):
BGMZ 47.56% (+46.21%)
AKP 41.78% (+25.82%)
Nobody else gets even 5%
For once, it seems, most Kurdish votes will not be wasted 
Wouldn't this mean a lot of Kurdish votes (those for the BGMZ at least) would be wasted? Although perhaps not a majority in Diyarbakir, if over 77.1% of the remaining 10.66% of the vote (or an additional 8.22% of the vote) went to the CHP, MHP or successful independent candidates. It's interesting that fewer Kurdish votes have been wasted due to poorer performance of formal Kurdish parties.
To my knowledge this happens in every Turkish election. The reason the threshold is so high in the first place is mainly to keep the Kurds out iirc.No it was mostly an attempt to add stability to the system of weak Turkish coalitions by making sure that the threshold was so high that it would create more stable coalitions or majority governments.
There is only one province where it is below 20% (Tunceli, where with 14.34% it is in the third spot - the only province where it is not, at least, second; even there, though, its vote share has more than dobled, having been just 6.67% the last time).
Which is the only province in all of Turkey with an Alevi majority who wouldn't be too happy with a conservative Sunni as Prime Minister.
