Türkiye will hold a second-round runoff on May 28 to elect the president after no candidate won an outright majority in Sunday’s poll, the head of Türkiye’s election authority announced on Monday.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, joint candidate for the People’s Alliance, and his closest competitor Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) chair and joint candidate for the six-party opposition Nation Alliance, will face off in the second round.

Meanwhile, 600 deputies elected to the Turkish Grand National Assembly have also been announced.

The first round of voting in Türkiye ended with no candidate able to clear the required 50% threshold, but incumbent Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan took the lead, said the Head of the Supreme Election Council Ahmet Yener, citing unofficial results.

Voter turnout in Sunday’s elections was 88.92%, with turnout from Turkish citizens abroad at 52.69%, Yener said.

Data entry continues for 35,874 ballots cast abroad, he noted.

Erdoğan, joint candidate for the People’s Alliance, and his closest competitor Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) chair and joint candidate for the six-party opposition Nation Alliance, will face off in the second round.

Erdoğan finished the first round with 49.51% of the vote, with Kılıçdaroğlu second at 44.88%, Yener said.

Sinan Oğan of the ATA (Ancestral) Alliance got 5.17%, while Muharrem İnce, who withdrew from the presidential race late last week after ballots had already been printed, got 0.44%, Yener added.

Meanwhile, the People’s Alliance, led by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s Justice and Development (AK) Party and the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), managed to secure a majority of seats in the Turkish parliament after Sunday’s presidential and parliamentary elections.

According to unofficial results, the AK Party garnered 35% of the votes, while the MHP gained over 10%, and the New Welfare Party (Yeniden Refah), which recently joined the alliance, got nearly 3% of the votes.

The Great Union Party (BBP), another party to the alliance, got almost 1% of the votes.

With over 26 million votes cast in favor of the People’s Alliance, the Erdoğan-led bloc collected over 49% of the votes in the parliamentary election, gaining 322 seats in the 600-seat parliament.

The main opposition Nation’s Alliance, on the other hand, gained 35% of all votes, getting 213 seats in parliament, while another opposition bloc, the Labor and Freedom Alliance, got over 10.5% of votes gaining 65 seats in parliament.