İMAMOĞLU Ekrem

Ekrem İmamoğlu was born in 1970 in Trabzon. He joined the Republican People’s Party (CHP) in 2009, becoming a member of CHP Beylikdüzü District Organization. Following the local elections that year, he was elected as the CHP Beylikdüzü District Chairperson. Being able to expand and activate the district organization throughout 5 years, he was nominated to run for Mayor of Beylikdüzü by CHP and won the elections in 2014. He implemented many projects that changed the face of Beylikdüzü district between 2014 and 2019. Raising the life standards of the district, İmamoğlu was under the spotlight from the perspective of the Beylikdüzü residents, media, academic community and the party’s top management. İmamoğlu was, thus, nominated as the Mayoral candidate of Nation Alliance for Istanbul by CHP in the local elections of March 31, 2019. Carrying out an effective campaign in a short period of three months, he was elected as the Mayor of Istanbul with 48.82% of the total valid votes. However, as a result of the objections made by the ruling party, Supreme Electoral Board (YSK) annulled only the results of March 31 Istanbul mayoral election and Mr. İmamoğlu rerun for Mayor on June 23, receiving 54.2% of the total valid votes, which is the highest rate achieved in the last 35 years in Istanbul. He has been in office since 27 June 2019. He has been living in Istanbul since 1988, and he is married, with 3 children.