page_title: Campaigning for the June 2015 Turkish general election
section_title: Extraordinary Convention, 8 September 2014
hierarchical_section_title: Campaigning for the June 2015 Turkish general election / Republican People's Party (CHP) / Extraordinary Convention, 8 September 2014
caption_attribution_description: English: Muharrem İnce; Turkish MP and candidate chairman of Republican People's Party (CHP) adressing at 2014 Republican People's Party Convention, Ankara, Turkey.Türkçe: Muharrem İnce, Türkiye Büyük Millet Meclisi Yalova Milletvekili ve CHP Genel Başkan adayı 2014 CHP Olağanüstü Kurultayında konuşma yapıyor, Ankara, Türkiye.
context_page_description: In the run-up to the Turkish general election of June 2015, many political parties engaged in campaign efforts to increase their vote shares. The main contesting parties were the governing incumbent Justice and Development Party led by Ahmet Davutoğlu, the Republican People's Party led by Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, the Nationalist Movement Party led by Devlet Bahçeli and the Peoples' Democratic Party co-led by Selahattin Demirtaş and Figen Yüksekdağ. These four parties are the only parties with a realistic chance of surpassing the 10% parliamentary threshold to gain representation in the Grand National Assembly of Turkey
  Opinion polling for the June 2015 Turkish general election show that the AKP is on course to win a plurality of the vote with around 40%, the CHP remaining relatively stable at 25% and the MHP registering a large increase in their vote share by polling close to 20%. The HDP is critically hovering at the 10% boundary, with several polls showing the party surpassing it or scoring just below. Opinion polls in Turkey, however, are notoriously unreliable due to their alleged bias in favour of certain political organisations.
context_section_description: The loss of the CHP's presidential candidate Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu in the 2014 presidential election resulted in several senior party members losing confidence in the leadership of Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, forcing him to call a leadership election. The party's performance in the 2014 local elections also drew speculation that Kılıçdaroğlu would resign after the party lost control of its stronghold Antalya and failed to win in Ankara or İstanbul. In the extraordinary convention held on 8 September 2014, Kılıçdaroğlu ran for re-election. Two other candidates, former parliamentary group leader Muharrem İnce and a former Kars parliamentary candidate Şahmar Dalmış declared their candidacy for the party leadership. Dalmış was unable to contest the election since he failed to secure any nominations.
  Opinion polls showed that Kılıçdaroğlu was significantly more popular in south-eastern provinces, while İnce maintained more support throughout the west of the country. The delegationary system resulted in Kılıçdaroğlu winning comfortably with 64.1% of the delegates' vote, despite opinion polls showing that İnce was more popular with the party's voters. Kılıçdaroğlu had initially been endorsed for the leadership by 84.2% of the delegates while İnce received the remaining 15.8% of the nominations, which was just 0.8% more than necessary to be eligible to run for election. In the leadership election, İnce won 35.9% and immediately conceded defeat.
caption: Muharrem İnce giving his leadership candidacy speech during the 2014 convention
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