Voting process started in renewed Istanbul elections 2019-06-23 10:05:03 İSTANBUL - The voting process have started at 08.00 for the renewed June 23 elections for İstanbul Metropolitan Municipality.   Following the March 31 Local Administrations General Elections, the Supreme Election Board (YSK) decided to cancel the decision on 6 May and the people of İstanbul went to the polls.   In today's election, Istanbul will elect the Metropolitan Mayor who will serve for 5 years. AKP candidate Binali Yildirim, CHP candidate Ekrem Imamoglu, Saadet Party candidate Necdet Gokcinar and Vatan Party candidate Mustafa Ilker Yucel are competing.   The voting process will end at 17.00 today.