Şanlıurfa (electoral district)
| Şanlıurfa | |
|---|---|
| electoral district for the Grand National Assembly of Turkey | |
 Şanlıurfa shown within Turkey | |
| Province | Şanlıurfa |
| Electorate | 849,100 |
| Current electoral district | |
| Created | 1923 |
| Seats | 12 Historical
|
| MPs | |
| Turnout at last election | 82.14% |
| AK Party | 7 / 12 |
| HDP | 5 / 12 |
Şanlıurfa is an electoral district of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey. It elects twelve members of parliament (deputies) to represent the province of the same name for a four-year term by the D'Hondt method, a party-list proportional representation system.
Members
Population reviews of each electoral district are conducted before each general election, which can lead to certain districts being granted a smaller or greater number of parliamentary seats. Şanlıurfa is one of the largest in southeast Turkey, sending twelve members to Ankara.
The overwhelming majority of members are from the governing party. Şanlıurfa is a district where the pro-Kurdish Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) ran independent candidates in an attempt to overcome the 10 percent national electoral threshold. One such independent candidates was elected here in 2011 and has joined the BDP; another independent candidate was also elected.
General elections
2011
| Turkish general election, 2011: Şanlıurfa[6][7] | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| List | Candidates | Votes | Of total (%) | ± from prev. | |
| AK Party | Faruk Çelik, Seyit Eyyüpoğlu, Mehmet Kasım Gülpınar, Mehmet Akyürek, Zeynep Armağan Uslu, Halil Özcan, Mahmur Kaçar, Abdulkadir Emin Önen, Yahya Akman, Abdulkerim Gök | 430,453 | 63.46 | ||
| Independent | İbrahim Ayhan | 77,416 | 11.41 | ||
| Independent | İbrahim Binici | 42,463 | 22.84 | ||
| Independent | Ahmet Ersin Bucak (not elected) | 31,090 | 4.58 | ||
| MHP | None elected | 22,357 | 3.30 | ||
| CHP | None elected | 21,777 | 3.21 | ||
| Other independents | None elected | 18,445 | 2.72 | ||
| Independent | Zülfikar İzol (not elected) | 14,724 | 2.17 | ||
| Büyük Birlik | None elected | 6,220 | 0.92 | ||
| HAS Party | None elected | 5,925 | 0.87 | N/A | |
| SAADET | None elected | 3,382 | 0.5 | ||
| DP | None elected | 1,743 | 0.26 | ||
| Communist_Party_of_Turkey_(today) | None elected | 1,235 | 0.18 | ||
| DSP | None elected | 700 | 0.1 | [8] | |
| DYP | None elected | 598 | 0.09 | ||
| Nationalist Conservative | None elected | 555 | 0.08 | ||
| MP | None elected | 426 | 0.06 | ||
| Labour | None elected | 0 | |||
| Liberal Democrat | None elected | 0 | |||
| HEPAR | None elected | 0 | |||
| Turnout | 678,286 | 82.14 | |||
Presidential elections
2014
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AK Party | Recep Tayyip Erdoğan | 455,170 | 68.60 | |
| HDP | Selahattin Demirtaş | 174,075 | 26.24 | |
| Independent | Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu | 34,251 | 5.16 | |
| Total votes | 663,496 | 100.00 | ||
| Rejected ballots | 7,933 | 1.18 | ||
| Turnout | 671,429 | 71.86 | ||
| Recep Tayyip Erdoğan win | ||||
References
- ^ Joined the AK Party in 2010.
- ^ Joined the AK Party in 2003.
- ^ Left his party and joined Anavatan in 2005.
- ^ Ran in 2007 as an independent candidate and joined the DTP afted being elected. Switched to the BDP after the DTP's closure. Ran as an independent candidate again in 2011 and rejointed the BDP afted being elected.
- ^ Ran in 2011 as an independent candidate and joined the BDP afted being elected.
- ^ [1] Hürriyet
- ^ http://www.ysk.gov.tr/ysk/docs/2011MilletvekiliSecimi/KesinSonuclar/sanliurfa.pdf
- ^ DSP in 2011 is compared to CHP in 2007, under whose list it ran that year
- ^ http://www.ysk.gov.tr/ysk/content/conn/YSKUCM/path/Contribution%20Folders/HaberDosya/CB-AdayOylari-ilBazında-2014.pdf
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See also: Elections in the Ottoman Empire | |