Mardin (electoral district)

Mardin
Mardin
electoral district; for the Grand National Assembly of Turkey
	Mardin shown within Turkey
Province	Mardin
Electorate	397,634
Current electoral district
Created	1920
Seats	6; Historical 5 (1991-1995); 6 (1987-1991); 5 (1983-1987); 6 (1961-1983); 8 (1957-1961); 7 (1954-1957);
MPs	List Muammer Güler AKP; Gönül Bekin Şahkulubey AKP; Abdurrahim Akdağ AKP; Gülser Yıldırım BDP; Erol Dora BDP; Ahmet Türk Ind;
Turnout at last election	82.39%
	Representation
HDP	5 / 6
AK Party	1 / 6
	Politics of Turkey; Political parties; ; Elections previous; next; ;

Mardin is an electoral district of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey. It elects six 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. Mardin's seat allocation has varied little over the last sixty years, keeping around the six seats it has today.

There are currently six sitting members of parliament representing Mardin, three of which are from the governing party. Van was 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. Three independent candidates were elected here in 2011; two have since joined the BDP.

MPs for Mardin, 1999 onwards
Seat		1999 (21st parliament)		2002 (22nd parliament)		2007 (23rd parliament)		2011 (24th parliament)		June 2015 (25th parliament)
Seat		1999 (21st parliament)		2002 (22nd parliament)		2007 (23rd parliament)		2011 (24th parliament)		June 2015 (25th parliament)
1	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Virtue Party/meta/color" \|	Fehim Adak FP	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Justice and Development Party (Turkey)/meta/color" \|	Selahattin Cebeli AK Party	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Justice and Development Party (Turkey)/meta/color" \|	Gönül Bekin Şahkulubey AK Party			width=1px style="background-color: Template:Justice and Development Party (Turkey)/meta/color" \|	Orhan Miroğlu AK Party	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Justice and Development Party (Turkey)/meta/color" \|
2	width=1px style="background-color: Template:True Path Party/meta/color" \|	Metin Musaoğlu DYP	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Justice and Development Party (Turkey)/meta/color" \|	Nihat Eri AK Party	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Justice and Development Party (Turkey)/meta/color" \|	Cüneyt Yüksel AK Party	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Justice and Development Party (Turkey)/meta/color" \|	Abdurrahim Akdağ AK Party	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Peoples' Democratic Party (Turkey)/meta/color" \|	Mithat Sancar HDP	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Peoples' Democratic Party (Turkey)/meta/color" \|
3	width=1px style="background-color: Template:True Path Party/meta/color" \|	Veysi Şahin DYP	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Justice and Development Party (Turkey)/meta/color" \|	Mehmet Beşir Hamidi AK Party	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Justice and Development Party (Turkey)/meta/color" \|	Mehmet Halit Demir AK Party	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Justice and Development Party (Turkey)/meta/color" \|	Muammer Güler AK Party	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Peoples' Democratic Party (Turkey)/meta/color" \|	Mehmet Ali Aslan HDP	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Peoples' Democratic Party (Turkey)/meta/color" \|
4	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Motherland Party (Turkey)/meta/color" \|	Süleyman Çelebi Anavatan	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Republican People's Party (Turkey)/meta/color" \|	Mahmut Duyan CHP	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Justice and Development Party (Turkey)/meta/color" \|	Süleyman Çelebi AK Party	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color" \|	Erol Dora^[1] Independent (BDP) / HDP			width=1px style="background-color: Template:Peoples' Democratic Party (Turkey)/meta/color" \|
5	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Motherland Party (Turkey)/meta/color" \|	Ömer Ertaş Anavatan	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Republican People's Party (Turkey)/meta/color" \|	Muharrem Doğan CHP	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color" \|	Ahmet Türk^[2] DTP / Independent			width=1px style="background-color: Template:Peoples' Democratic Party (Turkey)/meta/color" \|	Enise Güneyli HDP	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Peoples' Democratic Party (Turkey)/meta/color" \|
6	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Democratic Left Party (Turkey)/meta/color" \|	Mustafa Kemal Tuğmaner DSP	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color" \|	Süleyman Bölünmez Independent'	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color" \|	Emine Ayna^[3] Independent (DTP)	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color" \|	Gülser Yıldırım^[4] Independent (DTP/BDP) / HDP			width=1px style="background-color: Template:Peoples' Democratic Party (Turkey)/meta/color" \|

General elections

2011

Unelected candidates in small text.

2011 Turkish general election: Mardin^[5]^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AK Party	Muammer Güler, Gönül Bekin Şahkulubey, Abdurrahim Akdağ	103,402	32.17
	Independent	Ahmet Türk	59,350	18.52
	Independent	Gülser Yıldırım	55,505	17.32
	Independent	Erol Dora	51,980	16.22
	Independent	Süleyman Bölünmez	28,746	8.97
	CHP	None elected	11,953	3.72
	Büyük Birlik	None elected	2842	0.88
	HAS Party	None elected	2097	0.65	N/A
	MHP	None elected	2041	0.64
	SAADET	None elected	895	0.28
	DP	None elected	845	0.26
	DSP	None elected	658	0.20	^[7]
	Communist_Party_of_Turkey_(today)	None elected	474	0.15
	Nationalist Conservative	None elected	240	0.07
	MP	None elected	234	0.07
	Liberal Democrat	None elected	129	0.04
	DYP	None elected	0
	HEPAR	None elected	0
	Labour	None elected	0
Turnout			321,391	82.39

June 2015

Abbr.		Party	Votes	%
	HDP	Peoples' Democratic Party	276,920	73.3%
	AKP	Justice and Development Party	72,645	19.2%
	HÜDA-PAR	Free Cause Party	5,312	1.4%
	MHP	Nationalist Movement Party	4,198	1.1%
	CHP	Republican People's Party	3,736	1%
		Other	15,212	4%
Total			378,023
Turnout			87,30
source: YSK

November 2015

Abbr.		Party	Votes	%
	HDP	Peoples' Democratic Party	258,384	68.4%
	AKP	Justice and Development Party	107,804	28.5%
	CHP	Republican People's Party	5,087	1.3%
	MHP	Nationalist Movement Party	2,959	0.8%
		Other	3,733	1%
Total			377,967
Turnout			86.53
source: YSK

2018

Abbr.		Party	Votes	%
	HDP	Peoples' Democratic Party	233,657	60.6%
	AKP	Justice and Development Party	113,634	29.5%
	CHP	Republican People's Party	10,915	2.8%
	MHP	Nationalist Movement Party	9,387	2.4%
	HÜDA-PAR	Free Cause Party	8,253	2.1%
	IYI	Good Party	3,952	1%
	SP	Felicity Party	3,151	0.8%
		Other	2,232	0.6%
Total			385,281
Turnout			84.10
source: YSK

Presidential elections

2014

Presidential Election 2014: Mardin^[8]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	HDP	Selahattin Demirtaş	198,542	60.90
	AK Party	Recep Tayyip Erdoğan	119,362	36.61
	Independent	Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu	8,094	2.48
Total votes			325,998	100.00
Rejected ballots			3,845	1.17
Turnout			329,843	76.45
style="background-color: Template:Peoples' Democratic Party (Turkey)/meta/color" \|	Selahattin Demirtaş win

References

^ Ran in 2011 as an independent candidate and joined the BDP afted being elected.
^ Ran as an independent candidate in 2007 and joined the DTP after being elected. Was expelled as an MP when that party was closed down in 2009. Ran as an independent in 2011 and is currently prohibited from joining any political party. Resigned in 2014 to contest the 2014 local elections and was elected as the Mayor of Mardin.
^ Ran as an independent candidate in 2007 and joined the DTP after being elected.
^ Ran as an independent candidate in 2011 and joined the BDP after being elected.
^ [1] Turkish electoral commission
^ [2] Hürriyet
^ DSP in 2011 is compared to CHP in 2007, under whose list it ran that year
^ http://www.ysk.gov.tr/ysk/docs/2011MilletvekiliSecimi/KesinSonuclar/igdir.pdf

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[1] Ran in 2011 as an independent candidate and joined the BDP afted being elected.

[2] Ran as an independent candidate in 2007 and joined the DTP after being elected. Was expelled as an MP when that party was closed down in 2009. Ran as an independent in 2011 and is currently prohibited from joining any political party. Resigned in 2014 to contest the 2014 local elections and was elected as the Mayor of Mardin.

[3] Ran as an independent candidate in 2007 and joined the DTP after being elected.

[4] Ran as an independent candidate in 2011 and joined the BDP after being elected.

[5] [1] Turkish electoral commission

[6] [2] Hürriyet

[7] DSP in 2011 is compared to CHP in 2007, under whose list it ran that year

[8] ttp://www.ysk.gov.tr/ysk/docs/2011MilletvekiliSecimi/KesinSonuclar/igdir.pdf

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