Turks react to the election of opposition mayor Ekrem Imamoglu Istanbulites react the day after the opposition's landslide victory in the re-run of the mayoral vote. Ekrem Imamoglu, a little-known district mayor at the start of the year, won the election by more than 777,000 votes, up from just 13,000 in the first election in March, which was annulled over controversial claims of fraud.