The US has announced that it has halted the delivery of equipment related to the F-35 jets to Turkey. The announcement has been made after Turkey has decided to purchase S-400 missile defense system from Russia.

Supreme Electoral Council (YSK) Chair Güven has said that the temporary results have been shared with the parties and time for appealing against the results will be up tomorrow.

AKP Spokesperson Çelik has made a press conference on the local elections, touching on his party's appeals against results: "A legitimate process is going on. Everybody should respect this process. It is not possible for us to chase an undeserved win."

According to the unofficial local election results announced by the İstanbul Provincial Election Council, Ekrem İmamoğlu, the candidate of Nation Alliance for Metropolitan Mayorship of İstanbul, has been ahead by a margin of 24 thousand 408 votes.

Speaking about the loss of AKP in local elections in Eynesil, Giresun, Şaban Vatan, who has been campaigning to solve the suspicious death of his daughter Rabia Naz, has stated, “We have won our first victory now. God willing, justice will be served.”

Making a statement after the Anadolu Agency has updated its data, İmamoğlu has stated, “Truths come out sooner or later.” Yıldırım has also said that the number of invalid votes in İstanbul is ten times higher than the margin, implying the result can change.

The Anadolu Agency stopped updating election results last night after CHP İstanbul candidate began to catch his AKP rival. After not updating figures for 13 hours, it has finally declared that CHP is ahead in İstanbul.

HDP Co-Chairs Buldan and Temelli have evaluated the local election results, saying, "If we took an important step all across Turkey, we did this with the Kurdish people, Turkey's laborers, women, youth."

CHP Spokesperson Öztrak has made a statement regarding the local elections and said, “There are serious issues reported to us. Service vehicles owned by the Ankara Metropolitan Municipality have started to be granted to municipalities won by the AKP.”

Pro-government newspapers focus on AKP's general voting share, while others say the People's Alliance have lost. Here is a compilation from the newspapers in Turkey.

While eight provincial municipalities won by the AKP in 2014 local elections have passed to the main opposition CHP, seven provincial municipalities of the party have been won by the MHP, which has formed the People’s Alliance with the AKP.

Making a statement about the local elections, Supreme Election Council (YSK) Chair Sadi Güven has stated that Ekrem İmamoğlu has been leading in İstanbul by a margin of 27 thousand 889 votes according to the data of the council.

İmamoğlu, the candidate of Nation Alliance for the Metropolitan Mayorship of İstanbul, has made a statement: “They will invite us and we receive our certificate of election in a few days.” He has also criticized the “Thanks İstanbul” banners of the AKP.

Demirören News Agency, which previously announced that İmamoğlu, the candidate of Nation Alliance for the Metropolitan Mayorship of İstanbul, is leading according to data of Supreme Election Council, has removed the news from its website.

Follow the latest statements from the parties and the candidates in the 2019 local elections.

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Voting for local elections ended at 4 p.m. in 32 provinces and at 5 p.m. in the other 49 provinces. The polls have been opened for counting. The Supreme Electoral Council may end the broadcast ban before 9 p.m.

In a statement released by the Ministry of Interior, it has been stated, “Our four citizens have lost their lives so far; while two of them died before the election, two of them have lost their lives on the day of election.”

Going to the ballot box for the March 31 General Local Elections, political party chairs and President Erdoğan have spoken to journalists after casting their votes.