Balıkesir (electoral district)

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Balıkesir
electoral district
for the Grand National Assembly of Turkey
Balıkesir in Turkey.svg
Balıkesir shown within Turkey
Province Balıkesir
Electorate 866,739
Current electoral district
Created 1920
Seats 8
Turnout at last election 90.16%[1]
AKP
3 / 8
CHP
3 / 8
MHP
2 / 8

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[edit]

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, 1999 onwards[2][3][4][5]
Election 1999 (21st parliament) 2002 (22nd parliament) 2007 (23rd parliament) 2011 (24th parliament) June 2015 (25th parliament)
MP Agah Oktay Güner
ANAP
Ali Aydınlıoğlu
AK Party
Ayşe Akbaş
AK Party
Ali Aydınlıoğlu
AK Party
MP Numan Gültekin
DSP
Turhan Çömez
AK Party
Mehmet Cemal Öztaylan
AK Party
Sema Kırcı
AK Party
MP Tamer Kanber
DSP
Ahmet Edip Uğur
AK Party
Mahmut Poyrazlı
AK Party
MP Mustafa Güven Karahan
DSP
Ali Osman Sali
AK Party
Tülay Babuşcu
AK Party
İsmail Ok
MHP
MP Aydın Gökmen
MHP
Orhan Sür
CHP
Ahmet Duran Bulut
MHP
Recep Çetin
MHP
MP İlhan Aytekin
DYP
İsmail Özgün
AK Party
Ayşe Nedret Akova
CHP
Ahmet Akın
CHP
MP İlyas Yılmaz Yıldız
DYP
Ali Kemal Deveciler
CHP
Ergün Aydoğan
CHP
Haluk Ahmet Gümüş
CHP
Mehmet Tüm
CHP
MP İsmail Özgün
Virtue
Sedat Pekel
CHP
Hüseyin Pazarcı
CHP
Namık Havutça
CHP
MP Hüseyin Kalkan
MHP
No seat

General elections[edit]

2015[edit]

2011[edit]

General Election 2011: Balıkesir[6][7]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
AKP 356,649 46.50 Increase5.04
CHP 259,104 33.78 Increase9.46
MHP 106,663 13.91 Decrease1.93
Democrat 9,145 1.19 Decrease7.66
Felicity 8,724 1.14 Decrease0.91
Independent 6,785 0.88 Increase0.17
HAS Party 4,583 0.60 Increase0.60
BBP 2,887 0.38 Increase0.38
HEPAR 2,504 0.33 Increase0.33
DYP 2,465 0.32 Increase0.32
Democratic Left 2,448 0.32 N/A
Labour 2,113 0.28 Increase0.27
Turkish Communists 921 0.12 Decrease0.16
Nationalist Conservative 827 0.11 Increase0.11
Nation 679 0.09 Increase0.09
Liberal Democrat 441 0.06 Decrease0.17
Total votes 766,938 100.00
Rejected ballots 16,881 2.16 Increase0.08
Turnout 781,410 90.16 Increase1.42
AKP hold
Majority
92,074 12.72 Decrease4.43

Presidential elections[edit]

2014[edit]

Presidential Election 2014: Balıkesir[8]
Party Candidate Votes %
Independent Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu 368,822 49.36
AKP 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[edit]

Coordinates: 37°50′N 34°45′E / 37.833°N 34.750°E / 37.833; 34.750