Around 200,000 polling stations in Turkey closed at 17:00 local time (14:00 GMT) on Sunday after receiving a large turnout without incident from 08:00 to elect the Republic’s thirteenth president and renew parliament, AFP reported .

The first concrete results will be announced at the beginning of the evening.

Turkish voters cast ballots on Sunday in one of the most important elections in the country’s 100-year modern history, an election that could oust President Recep Tayyip Erdogan after two decades in power.

The vote will decide not only who will lead Turkey, but also how the country will be governed, how to manage the economy in the face of a deep cost of living crisis and what its foreign policy will be, unexpected twists and turns.

Pre-election polls give a slight lead to Erdogan’s main rival Kemal Kilicdaroglu, who leads an alliance of six opposition parties, but if none wins more than 50% of the vote, a runoff will be held two weeks later in May. 28.