{"id":19326,"date":"2026-08-09T08:00:52","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T08:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/08\/09\/turkey-poll-erdogan-risk-defeat-runoff-election\/"},"modified":"2026-08-09T08:00:52","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T08:00:52","slug":"turkey-poll-erdogan-risk-defeat-runoff-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/08\/09\/turkey-poll-erdogan-risk-defeat-runoff-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Poll Predicts Erdogan at Risk of Defeat in Turkey\u2019s Presidential Runoff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A recent poll in Turkey indicates that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan faces a risk of defeat if the presidential election goes to a runoff against two prominent opposition figures.<\/p>\n<p>Conducted by the research institute &#8220;Youn,&#8221; the survey included 3,000 participants across 51 provinces in Turkey during August. Respondents were asked whom they would vote for if Erdogan competed against Ekrem Imamoglu in the second round.<\/p>\n<p>According to the findings, Ekrem Imamoglu would secure 51.3% of the vote, while Erdogan\u2019s share is projected at 48.7%. Imamoglu, the suspended mayor of Istanbul and head of the Turkish Municipalities Union, is a leading opposition figure and has been detained since March 19, 2025, at the Marmara prison in Silivri.<\/p>\n<p>In another scenario from the poll, Mansur Yava\u015f, the mayor of Ankara, also leads with 53.4% of the vote against Erdogan\u2019s 46.6%.<\/p>\n<p>These results come despite Erdogan\u2019s victory in the 2023 presidential runoff, where he won 27 million votes, equivalent to 52.18% of the ballots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new Turkish poll shows President Erdogan risks losing in a potential runoff against opposition leaders Ekrem Imamoglu and Mansur Yava\u015f.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19325,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19326\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}