Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) swept local elections on Sunday but saw its primary vote fall, with Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan disappointed at the party losing a number of provinces and failing to win others it had targeted, DPA reported. With around 99 per cent of the vote counted as of Monday morning, the AKP had registered 39 per cent of the vote, compared to 23.2 per cent for the main opposition Republican People's Party and 16.1 per cent for the Nationalist Movement Party. The AKP's 39 per cent represents a fall of more than 7 per cent compared to the AKP's result in general elections in 2007. The AKP held onto Istanbul and the capital Ankara but lost the Mediterranean city of Antalya.
