HMM: Poll shows Turkey’s Erdogan falling short of election majority in first round.

He looks safe in a potential runoff however:

Turks will vote in both parliamentary and presidential elections later this month after Erdogan, the president, declared a snap election in April. After the vote, Turkey will switch to a powerful executive presidency that was narrowly approved in a referendum last year.

The survey of 3,000 respondents in 26 of Turkey’s 81 provinces showed Erdogan receiving 48.3 percent of votes in the first round, with the main opposition party candidate, Muharrem Ince, seen at 31.4 percent. The poll was conducted between May 29 and June 3.

More than 53 percent of respondents said they would vote for Erdogan against Ince in the second round.

Flashback: “Democracy is like a streetcar. When you come to your stop, you get off.” -Recep Tayyip Erdogan.