AKP sweeps back to majority

Vote restored ruling party to dominance it lost in June election

Turkey's ruling party secured a stunning victory in Sunday's snap parliamentary election, sweeping back into single-party rule only five months after losing it.

Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu declared victory as results reported by state-run TRT television showed that the ruling Justice and Development party, or AKP, had won more than 49 percent of the vote and was projected to get 316 seats in Grand National Assembly. The preliminary result, reported after about 99 percent of the votes were counted, would give the party a comfortable majority in the 550-seat legislature.