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ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey's ruling Islamist-rooted AK Party won nearly 50 percent of the vote in a decisive national election victory on Sunday, early results showed.
The stronger than expected showing gives the pro-business party a mandate for reform but potentially sets the stage for renewed tensions with the secular elite, a few months after a clash over who should be president triggered the early election.
With more than half the votes counted, two secularist parties crossed the 10 percent threshold to enter parliament -- the leftist CHP on around 18 percent and the ultra-nationalist MHP on 16.
A senior AK Party lawmaker declared victory, saying it would win enough seats to form a single-party government for a second five-year term.
"It is clear that we will be in power alone and that Turkey's stability will continue," Salih Kapusuz told Reuters.