Preliminary, unofficial results from Turkey’s official Anadolu news agency showed incumbent President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ahead with 49% of ballot boxes counted, while a competing news agency gave a slight lead to the opposition candidate.
Meanwhile, the ANKA news agency, close to the opposition, showed the results at 51% for Kilicdaroglu and Erdogan at 49%, with 52% of ballot boxes counted.
The news agencies get their data from completed ballot box counts that are gathered by personnel on the field, and are strong in different regions, explaining some of the variation in preliminary data.
Turkey’s electoral board sends its own data to political parties throughout the vote count but doesn’t declare official results until days later.
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