Turkey's Urbanites Balk at Giving Erdogan More Power

Turkey's referendum was run on a promise of economic renewal. The powerhouses of the $857 billion economy didn't buy into that pledge. In major industrial centers, voters largely rejected a proposal to grant President Recep Tayyip Erdogan unfettered powers.

Here's how the data break down.

1. While the preliminary tally points to a 51.4 percent nationwide win for the constitutional changes, that was almost precisely the inverse of how people voted in both the capital city, Ankara, and the commercial capital, Istanbul.

2. In Izmir, the next most populous metropolis, less than a third of three million voters endorsed the proposal. That's not such a surprise in what's traditionally been an opposition stronghold, but Istanbul -- Europe's largest city, with an economy bigger than Portugal or Peru's -- does not have a history of defying the president's wishes.