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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

Ozan Balcı (Trustee) has been Mayor of Van Metropolitan Municipality since 15 Feb 2025. Ozan Balcı took office on 15 February 2025. The figures run to 2025, so no series has a change to show yet, and the charts show the predecessors' years for now; the latest population is 1.12 million residents. Since 1991 the office has changed hands 13 times; Ozan Balcı has held it since February 2025.

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