Türkiye’de Belediye Başkanliği Seçimlerinde Yenilenme (1963-2014)
The Renewals in Mayoral Elections in Turkey (1963-2014)

Summary/Abstract: In modern states, the administration is organized in two major forms, central and local, to carry out public services and other administrative activities. Local governments are the legal entities that are elected by citizens for providing the needs of the same citizens living in the related region, province and smaller settlement units within a country. This study investigates the renewals in municipal elections. The renewal rate refers to the proportion of the mayors changing during a certain period of time in the context of this study. For this purpose, the results of eleven municipal elections held between 1963 and 2014 are examined by the content analysis method. The renewal rates are evaluated separately in the context of municipality and metropolitan municipality. The absence of such a study in the existing literature and the importance of the renewal rate in municipal elections with regard to its influence on the quality and functioning of the local government system are considered to be an important and distinctive feature of this study.

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