opinion polls showed that kılıçdaroğlu was significantly more popular in south-eastern provinces, while i̇nce maintained more support throughout the west of the country. the delegationary system resulted in kılıçdaroğlu winning comfortably with 64.1% of the delegates' vote, despite opinion polls showing that i̇nce was more popular with the party's voters. kılıçdaroğlu had initially been endorsed for the leadership by 84.2% of the delegates while i̇nce received the remaining 15.8% of the nominations, which was just 0.8% more than necessary to be eligible to run for election. in the leadership election, i̇nce won 35.9% and immediately conceded defeat.