Occupied Cyprus: Pro-unification candidate wins landslide victory over Erdogan's favorite

With all ballots counted, election officials reported that Tufan Erhürman secured 62.76% of the vote, compared to 35.81% for Mr. Tatar.

Other candidates polled below 1%.

Voter turnout was 64.87% in the territory, which is recognized internationally only by Turkey. Mr. Erhürman addressed celebrating supporters in northern Nicosia.

“Our people must know this: This election has no losers," he said.

"As the Turkish Cypriot people, we all won together. We said that we would proceed together, win together, and govern together. We have kept our first two promises.

We will keep our third promise together as well.”

How this will pan out in the talks over the future on the divided by Turkish occupation nation is still unclear, but the election of Tufan Erhürman offers hope for reunification under some scheme of two entities under one flag.