Balıkesir (electoral district)

Balıkesir
Balıkesir
electoral district; for the Grand National Assembly of Turkey
	Balıkesir shown within Turkey
Province	Balıkesir
Electorate	866,739
Current electoral district
Created	1920
Seats	8; Historical 9 (1999);
Turnout at last election	90.16%
	Representation
AK Party	4 / 8
CHP	3 / 8
MHP	1 / 8
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Balıkesir is an electoral district of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey. It elects eight 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. Balıkesir elected 9 MPs in 1999. The district has lost one seat since then and has elected 8 MPs since 2002.

MPs for Balıkesir, 2002 onwards^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]
Election		2002 (22nd parliament)		2007 (23rd parliament)		2011 (24th parliament)		June 2015 (25th parliament)		Nov 2015 (26th parliament)
Election		2002 (22nd parliament)		2007 (23rd parliament)		2011 (24th parliament)		June 2015 (25th parliament)		Nov 2015 (26th parliament)
MP	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Justice and Development Party (Turkey)/meta/color" \|	Ali Aydınlıoğlu AK Party	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Justice and Development Party (Turkey)/meta/color" \|	Ayşe Akbaş AK Party	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Justice and Development Party (Turkey)/meta/color" \|	Ali Aydınlıoğlu AK Party					width=1px style="background-color: Template:Justice and Development Party (Turkey)/meta/color" \|
MP	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Justice and Development Party (Turkey)/meta/color" \|	Turhan Çömez AK Party	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Justice and Development Party (Turkey)/meta/color" \|	Mehmet Cemal Öztaylan AK Party			width=1px style="background-color: Template:Justice and Development Party (Turkey)/meta/color" \|	Sema Kırcı AK Party			width=1px style="background-color: Template:Justice and Development Party (Turkey)/meta/color" \|
MP	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Justice and Development Party (Turkey)/meta/color" \|	Ahmet Edip Uğur AK Party					width=1px style="background-color: Template:Justice and Development Party (Turkey)/meta/color" \|	Mahmut Poyrazlı AK Party			width=1px style="background-color: Template:Justice and Development Party (Turkey)/meta/color" \|
MP	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Justice and Development Party (Turkey)/meta/color" \|	Ali Osman Sali AK Party			width=1px style="background-color: Template:Justice and Development Party (Turkey)/meta/color" \|	Tülay Babuşcu AK Party	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Nationalist Movement Party/meta/color" \|	Recep Çetin MHP	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Justice and Development Party (Turkey)/meta/color" \|	Kasım Bostan AK Party	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Justice and Development Party (Turkey)/meta/color" \|
MP	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Republican People's Party (Turkey)/meta/color" \|	Orhan Sür CHP	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Nationalist Movement Party/meta/color" \|	Ahmet Duran Bulut MHP			width=1px style="background-color: Template:Nationalist Movement Party/meta/color" \|	İsmail Ok MHP			width=1px style="background-color: Template:Nationalist Movement Party/meta/color" \|
MP	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Justice and Development Party (Turkey)/meta/color" \|	İsmail Özgün AK Party			width=1px style="background-color: Template:Republican People's Party (Turkey)/meta/color" \|	Ayşe Nedret Akova CHP	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Republican People's Party (Turkey)/meta/color" \|	Ahmet Akın CHP			width=1px style="background-color: Template:Republican People's Party (Turkey)/meta/color" \|
MP	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Republican People's Party (Turkey)/meta/color" \|	Ali Kemal Deveciler CHP	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Republican People's Party (Turkey)/meta/color" \|	Ergün Aydoğan CHP	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Republican People's Party (Turkey)/meta/color" \|	Haluk Ahmet Gümüş CHP	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Republican People's Party (Turkey)/meta/color" \|	Mehmet Tüm CHP			width=1px style="background-color: Template:Republican People's Party (Turkey)/meta/color" \|
MP	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Republican People's Party (Turkey)/meta/color" \|	Sedat Pekel CHP	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Republican People's Party (Turkey)/meta/color" \|	Hüseyin Pazarcı CHP	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Republican People's Party (Turkey)/meta/color" \|	Namık Havutça CHP					width=1px style="background-color: Template:Republican People's Party (Turkey)/meta/color" \|

General elections

2011

General Election 2011: Balıkesir^[6]^[7]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AK Party	4 elected 1 1. Ahmet Edip Uğur Y 2. Mehmet Cemal Öztaylan Y 3. Tülay Babuşçu Y 4. Ali Aydınlıoğlu Y 5. Mehmet Akif Okur N 6. Emin Mehmet Karatan N 7. Ekrem Yavaş N 8. Hilal Demirözer N	356,649	46.50	5.04
	CHP	3 elected 1 1. Namık Havutça Y 2. Ayşe Nedret Akova Y 3. Haluk Ahmet Gümüş Y 4. Ahmet Akın N 5. Hasan İşgüzar N 6. Hüsnü Erol N 7. İrfan Barış N 8. Ömür Mustafa Boyuer N	259,104	33.78	9.46
	MHP	1 elected 0 1. Ahmet Duran Bulut Y 2. Rafet Çetinel N 3. Ahmet Keskin N 4. Ruşen Aşkın Akçay N 5. Kemal Girgin N 6. Zakir Yılmaz N 7. Yılmaz Uçak N 8. Uğur Söğüt N	106,663	13.91	1.93
	DP	None elected 1. İlhan Erdinç N 2. Ata Selçuk N 3. Elif Zeynep Eken N 4. Mehmet Efe N 5. Ali Rıza Deniz N 6. Mehmet Bakir Arslan N 7. Sabir Arslan N 8. Halil İbrahim Akkoca N	9,145	1.19	7.66
	SAADET	None elected 1. Bayram Ali Ayyıldız N 2. Murat Sali N 3. Ömer Taşkın N 4. Abdullah Özlen N 5. Lütfi Çelik N 6. Mehmet Filiz N 7. Zülfer Erol N 8. Ahmet Pınar N	8,724	1.14	0.91
	Independent	None elected Turan Cengiz N Kartal Cemil Demir N Serap Yeşiltuna N	6,785	0.88	0.17
	HAS Party	None elected 1. Cengiz Yücel Özek N 2. Nevzat Kulaoğlu N 3. Necdet Debre N 4. Tanju Akçe N 5. Şükran Karaboğa N 6. Hakan Demirtaş N 7. Nejla Caner N 8. Faruk Kulaksızoğlu N	4,583	0.60	0.60
	Büyük Birlik	None elected 1. Zekai Çakır N 2. Barış Aybaşlı N 3. Hüseyin Karagöz N 4. Zeki Akın N 5. Şeref Kafa N 6. İsmail Şılmaz N 7. Cemalettin Ateş N 8. Ahmet Duman N	2,887	0.38	0.38
	HEPAR	None elected 1. Aysel Kökener N 2. Çağlayan Yaşar N 3. Esra Öztürkler N 4. Hüseyin Uçar N 5. Emrah Eruysal N 6. Kazım Aka N 7. Mehmet Gökhan Erten N 8. Mehmet İlem N	2,504	0.33	0.33
	DYP	None elected 1. Eser Özaçıkgöz N 2. Cem Erdeveciler N 3. Mustafa Yalazı N 4. Adem Dimici N 5. Murat Aksakal N 6. Burçak Çolak N 7. Şahin Erbay N 8. Murat Deringöl N	2,465	0.32	0.32
	DSP	None elected 1. Ahmet Aydoğdu N 2. Ümit Ayhan N 3. Metin Özyurt N 4. Muharrem Yavuz N 5. Süleyman Palalı N 6. Ali Bozdak N 7. İsmail Çalışkan N 8. Hüseyin Kadıoğlu N	2,448	0.32	N/A
	Labour	None elected 1. Zeynep Henza Çalışkan N 2. Ayten Çetin N 3. Rıfat Ada N 4. Cemil Tosunoğlu N 5. Ferhat Gürkan N 6. Zeynel Altan N 7. Yetiş Yılmaz Şentürk N 8. Elif Özer N	2,113	0.28	0.27
	Communist_Party_of_Turkey_(today)	None elected 1. Selami Kıymaç N 2. Mustafa Yalazı N 3. Yılmaz Altıntaş N 4. Hasan Atilla N 5. Selim Sarıcan N 6. Bülent Acar N 7. Münür Çalışkan N 8. Nurten Kuşatan N	921	0.12	0.16
	Nationalist Conservative	None elected 1. Samet Ömer Oyal N 2. Volkan Orhan Kutun N 3. Sibel Türkoğlu N 4. Ziya Önçırak N 5. Serkan Tavşan N 6. Hatice Gürsal N 7. Naciye Çelik N 8. Mahigül Yılmaz N	827	0.11	0.11
	MP	None elected 1. Ahmet Yakaner N 2. Meral Atlıakın N 3. Eyüp Baş N 4. Ergün Yıldırım N 5. Mehmet Bircan N 6. İsmail Şen N 7. Serdar Matışlı N 8. Bekir Sezer N	679	0.09	0.09
	Liberal Democrat	None elected 1. Ahmet Doğru N 2. Gökhan Takım N 3. Aydın Ulaşan N 4. Ahmet Denizeri N 5. Onur Öz N 6. Murad Tayoğlu N 7. Halil İhsan Çakır N 8. İbrahim Derli N	441	0.06	0.17
Total votes			766,938	100.00
Rejected ballots			16,881	2.16	0.08
Turnout			781,410	90.16	1.42
	AK Party hold Majority		92,074	12.72	4.43

June 2015

Abbr.		Party	Votes	%
	AKP	Justice and Development Party	305,602	38.9%
	CHP	Republican People's Party	267,677	34%
	MHP	Nationalist Movement Party	159,274	20.3%
	HDP	Peoples' Democratic Party	24,121	3.1%
	SP	Felicity Party	14,324	1.8%
		Other	15,185	1.9%
Total			786,183
Turnout			88.54
source: YSK

November 2015

Abbr.		Party	Votes	%
	AKP	Justice and Development Party	361,821	45.5%
	CHP	Republican People's Party	275,229	34.6%
	MHP	Nationalist Movement Party	117,551	14.8%
	HDP	Peoples' Democratic Party	18,382	2.3%
	SP	Felicity Party	6,788	0.9%
		Other	14,796	1.9%
Total			794,567
Turnout			88.54
source: YSK

2018

Abbr.		Party	Votes	%
	AKP	Justice and Development Party	338,879	40.4%
	CHP	Republican People's Party	256,303	30.6%
	IYI	Good Party	125,333	14.9%
	MHP	Nationalist Movement Party	62,255	7.4%
	HDP	Peoples' Democratic Party	32,275	3.8%
	SP	Felicity Party	9,811	1.2%
		Other	13,751	1.6%
Total			838,607
Turnout			90.81
source: YSK

Presidential elections

2014

Presidential Election 2014: Balıkesir^[8]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Independent	Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu	368,822	49.36
	AK Party	Recep Tayyip Erdoğan	357,170	47.80
	HDP	Selahattin Demirtaş	21,273	2.85
Total votes			747,265	100.00
Rejected ballots			15,038	1.97
Turnout			762,303	83.17
	Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu win

References

^ http://www.ysk.gov.tr/ysk/docs/2011MilletvekiliSecimi/KesinSonuclar/balikesir.pdf
^ "TBMM 24.Dönem Milletvekili Listesi". Archived from the original on January 5, 2015. Retrieved 10 January 2015.
^ "TBMM 23.Dönem Milletvekili Listesi". Archived from the original on January 5, 2015. Retrieved 10 January 2015.
^ "TBMM 22.Dönem Milletvekili Listesi". Archived from the original on January 5, 2015. Retrieved 10 January 2015.
^ "TBMM 21.Dönem Milletvekili Listesi". Archived from the original on January 5, 2015. Retrieved 10 January 2015.
^ http://www.ysk.gov.tr/ysk/docs/2011MilletvekiliSecimi/KesinSonuclar/balikesir.pdf
^ http://www.sabah.com.tr/gundem/2011/04/29/iste-milletvekili-kesin-aday-listeleri?paging=15
^ http://www.ysk.gov.tr/ysk/content/conn/YSKUCM/path/Contribution%20Folders/HaberDosya/CB-AdayOylari-ilBazında-2014.pdf

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[1] ttp://www.ysk.gov.tr/ysk/docs/2011MilletvekiliSecimi/KesinSonuclar/balikesir.pdf

[2] "TBMM 24.Dönem Milletvekili Listesi". Archived from the original on January 5, 2015. Retrieved 10 January 2015.

[3] "TBMM 23.Dönem Milletvekili Listesi". Archived from the original on January 5, 2015. Retrieved 10 January 2015.

[4] "TBMM 22.Dönem Milletvekili Listesi". Archived from the original on January 5, 2015. Retrieved 10 January 2015.

[5] "TBMM 21.Dönem Milletvekili Listesi". Archived from the original on January 5, 2015. Retrieved 10 January 2015.

[6] ttp://www.ysk.gov.tr/ysk/docs/2011MilletvekiliSecimi/KesinSonuclar/balikesir.pdf

[7] ttp://www.sabah.com.tr/gundem/2011/04/29/iste-milletvekili-kesin-aday-listeleri?paging=15

[8] ttp://www.ysk.gov.tr/ysk/content/conn/YSKUCM/path/Contribution%20Folders/HaberDosya/CB-AdayOylari-ilBazında-2014.pdf

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