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34 Republican People's Party25 Justice and Development Party8 Nationalist Movement Party6 Trustee4 Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party2 New Welfare Party +2 more
Sources: TurkStat (Turkish Statistical Institute: national and provincial accounts, labour force survey, consumer prices, address-based population register) and the central bank's house price index via the OECD's regional and national databases; World Bank (GDP before 1995, unemployment before 2005), GISCO, World Bank (Worldwide Governance Indicators), V-Dem Institute, Transparency International, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons; office-holders checked against the Supreme Election Council's results and the municipalities' own lists. CreditsPrivacy

Tahir Büyükakın (Justice and Development Party) has been Mayor of Kocaeli Metropolitan Municipality since 4 Apr 2019. In the time since Tahir Büyükakın took office, April 2019, real provincial GDP has climbed 4.5% a year, against +4.7% for Turkey. Kocaeli ranks 2nd of 24 provinces on population growth; on GDP per person it is 21st. The employment rate moved +2.7 percentage points in Kocaeli against +1.4 percentage points for Turkey. For comparison, real provincial GDP jumped 6.3% a year under İbrahim Karaosmanoğlu, 2004 to 2019.

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