March 31, 2019 municipal elections has resulted in AKP's defeat in Istanbul and Ankara after 25 years of governance, as well as in many Kurdish cities where trustees had been appointed. Moreover, in many cities on the coast of Mediterranean Sea including Adana, Mersin, Antalya, Hatay and Muğla, municipalities have changed hands from the governing Presidential Alliance to the opposition. The winner of Presidential Alliance has also been recorded as the alliance partner Nationalist Movement Party MHP as it has won multiple municipalities from AKP in cities where both have entered the elections separately. As a result, AKP has lost 62 municipalities but in 3 of them elections will be repeated. At the provincial level, the Municipal Map of Turkey shows an AKP dominance despite losses: [infogram id="translate-kazanilan-iller-31-mart-1h17490gv91l4zj?live"]   However once the district maps are taken into consideration, the map shows a more varied color scheme: