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Turkey ruling party has early poll lead Turkey election: Ruling AKP 'heads for majority'
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Early results from Turkey election give ruling AK party 53% of the vote, with more than 40% of votes counted Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) looks likely to claim a majority in a critical parliamentary election, early results indicate.
This breaking news story is being updated and more details will be published shortly. Please refresh the page for the fullest version. With close to 80% of all votes counted, state-run Anadolu Agency said the party was on 50.8%, with the main opposition CHP on 23.8%.
If you want to receive Breaking News alerts via email, or on a smartphone or tablet via the BBC News App then details on how to do so are available on this help page. You can also follow @BBCBreaking on Twitter to get the latest alerts. The pro-Kurdish HDP and nationalist MHP appear likely to cross the 10% threshold needed to claim seats.
Attempts to form a coalition government after elections in June failed.
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BBC correspondents said the results are likely to see AKP form a single-party government after its failure to reach a majority in June.
Turkish media said results had yet to be counted in some large cities.
The AKP's opponents had said the vote was a chance to curb what it sees as the increasingly authoritarian tendencies of president, and party founder, Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Since elections in June, a ceasefire between the Turkish army and militants from the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) collapsed after a suicide bombing in July by suspected Islamic State (IS) militants.
The attack near the border with Syria killed more than 30 Kurds.
Turkey then suffered its deadliest attack in its modern history when more than 100 people were killed after a peace rally attended by mainly left-wing demonstrators, including many HDP supporters, was targeted by two suicide bombers.
The government said they were linked to IS.
The HDP scaled back its election campaign after the attack.
Critics have accused Mr Erdogan of renewing violence to curb support for the HDP - something the government denies.