Mersin (electoral district)

Mersin
Mersin
electoral district; for the Grand National Assembly of Turkey
	Mersin shown within Turkey
Province	Mersin
Electorate	1,137,834
Current electoral district
Created	1923
Seats	11; Historical 12 (1995-2011);
MPs	List Mehmet Zafer Çağlayan AKP; Ahmet Tevfik Uzun AKP; Nebi Bozkur AKP; Çiğdem Münevver Ökten AKP; Aytuğ Atıcı CHP; Vahap Seçer CHP; İsa Gök CHP; Ali Rıza Öztürk CHP; Mehmet Şandır MHP; Ali Öz MHP; Ertuğrul Kürkçü BDP;
Turnout at last election	87.02%
	Representation
CHP	3 / 11
AK Party	3 / 11
MHP	3 / 11
HDP	1 / 11
	Politics of Turkey; Political parties; ; Elections previous; next; ;

Mersin is an electoral district of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey. It elects eleven 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. Mersin elected 12 members until the most recent election in 2011, when the number of seats was dropped to eleven.

MPs for Mersin, 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)
MP	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Democratic Left Party (Turkey)/meta/color" \|	Edip Özgenç^[1] DSP / YTP	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Republican People's Party (Turkey)/meta/color" \|	Ali Oksal CHP			width=1px style="background-color: Template:Republican People's Party (Turkey)/meta/color" \|	Aytuğ Atıcı CHP			width=1px style="background-color: Template:Republican People's Party (Turkey)/meta/color" \|
MP	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Democratic Left Party (Turkey)/meta/color" \|	Akif Serin^[1] DSP / YTP	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Republican People's Party (Turkey)/meta/color" \|	Ersoy Bulut^[2] CHP	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Republican People's Party (Turkey)/meta/color" \|	Vahap Seçer CHP			width=1px style="background-color: Template:Republican People's Party (Turkey)/meta/color" \|	Hüseyin Çamak CHP	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Republican People's Party (Turkey)/meta/color" \|
MP	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Democratic Left Party (Turkey)/meta/color" \|	Mustafa İstemihan Talay^[1] DSP / YTP	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Republican People's Party (Turkey)/meta/color" \|	Hüseyin Güler^[3] CHP / Anavatan	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Republican People's Party (Turkey)/meta/color" \|	İsa Gök CHP			width=1px style="background-color: Template:Republican People's Party (Turkey)/meta/color" \|	Durmuş Fikri Sağlar CHP	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Republican People's Party (Turkey)/meta/color" \|
MP	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Nationalist Movement Party/meta/color" \|	Yalçın Kaya MHP	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Republican People's Party (Turkey)/meta/color" \|	Hüseyin Özcan^[4] CHP / Anavatan	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Republican People's Party (Turkey)/meta/color" \|	Ali Rıza Öztürk CHP			width=1px style="background-color: Template:Nationalist Movement Party/meta/color" \|	Baki Şimşek MHP	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Nationalist Movement Party/meta/color" \|
MP	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Nationalist Movement Party/meta/color" \|	Hidayet Kılınç MHP	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Republican People's Party (Turkey)/meta/color" \|	Mustafa Özyürek CHP	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Nationalist Movement Party/meta/color" \|	Mehmet Şandır MHP			width=1px style="background-color: Template:Nationalist Movement Party/meta/color" \|	Oktay Öztürk MHP	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Nationalist Movement Party/meta/color" \|
MP	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Nationalist Movement Party/meta/color" \|	Cahit Tekelioğlu MHP	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Republican People's Party (Turkey)/meta/color" \|	Şefik Zengin CHP	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Nationalist Movement Party/meta/color" \|	Akif Akkuş MHP	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Nationalist Movement Party/meta/color" \|	Ali Öz MHP			width=1px style="background-color: Template:Nationalist Movement Party/meta/color" \|
MP	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Nationalist Movement Party/meta/color" \|	Enis Öksüz^[5] MHP / BBP	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Republican People's Party (Turkey)/meta/color" \|	Vahit Çekmez CHP	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Nationalist Movement Party/meta/color" \|	Kadir Ural MHP	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color" \|	Ertuğrul Kürkçü^[6] Independent (BDP)	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Peoples' Democratic Party (Turkey)/meta/color" \|	Dengir Mir Mehmet Fırat HDP	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Peoples' Democratic Party (Turkey)/meta/color" \|
MP	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Motherland Party (Turkey)/meta/color" \|	Ali Er^[7] Anavatan / AK Party					width=1px style="background-color: Template:Justice and Development Party (Turkey)/meta/color" \|	Mehmet Zafer Çağlayan AK Party	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Peoples' Democratic Party (Turkey)/meta/color" \|	Çilem Öz HDP	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Peoples' Democratic Party (Turkey)/meta/color" \|
MP	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Motherland Party (Turkey)/meta/color" \|	Rüştü Kazım Yücelen Anavatan	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Justice and Development Party (Turkey)/meta/color" \|	Ömer İnan AK Party			width=1px style="background-color: Template:Justice and Development Party (Turkey)/meta/color" \|	Çiğdem Münevver Ökten AK Party	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Justice and Development Party (Turkey)/meta/color" \|	Mustafa Muhammet Gültak AK Party	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Justice and Development Party (Turkey)/meta/color" \|
MP	width=1px style="background-color: Template:True Path Party/meta/color" \|	Turhan Güven DYP	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Justice and Development Party (Turkey)/meta/color" \|	Saffet Benli AK Party / Anavatan	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Justice and Development Party (Turkey)/meta/color" \|	Kürşad Tüzmen AK Party	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Justice and Development Party (Turkey)/meta/color" \|	Ahmet Tevfik Uzun AK Party	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Justice and Development Party (Turkey)/meta/color" \|	Yılmaz Tezcan AK Party	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Justice and Development Party (Turkey)/meta/color" \|
MP	width=1px style="background-color: Template:True Path Party/meta/color" \|	Ayfer Yılmaz DYP	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Justice and Development Party (Turkey)/meta/color" \|	Mustafa Eyiceoğlu AK Party	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Justice and Development Party (Turkey)/meta/color" \|	Mehmet Zafer Üskül AK Party	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Justice and Development Party (Turkey)/meta/color" \|	Nebi Bozkur AK Party	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Justice and Development Party (Turkey)/meta/color" \|	Muhsin Kızılkaya AK Party	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Justice and Development Party (Turkey)/meta/color" \|
MP	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Nationalist Movement Party/meta/color" \|	Ali Güngör^[8] MHP / Independent	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Justice and Development Party (Turkey)/meta/color" \|	Dengir Mir Mehmet Fırat AK Party	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Nationalist Movement Party/meta/color" \|	Kadir Ural MHP	Seat abolished

General elections

June 2015

General Election June 2015: Mersin
Party		Candidate
	CHP	Party list 1. TBD by leader 2. Hüseyin Çakmak 3. Fikri Sağlar 4. TBD by leader 5. Aytuğ Atıcı 6. Serdal Kuyucuoğlu 7. Sibel Gazi Tabel 8. Ebru Çalışkan 9. Seyit Özananar 10. Ali Koç 11. Nevin Zaimoğlu
Total votes
Rejected ballots
Turnout

2011

Turkish general election, 2011: Mersin^[9]
List		Candidates	Votes	Of total (%)	± from prev.
	AK Party	Mehmet Zafer Çağlayan, Ahmet Tevfik Uzun, Nebi Bozkur, Çiğdem Münevver Ökten	311,050	32.00
	CHP	Aytuğ Atıcı, Vahap Seçer, İsa Gök, Ali Rıza Öztürk	310,714	31.96
	MHP	Mehmet Şandır, Ali Öz	224,477	23.09
	Independents	Ertuğrul Kürkçü	93,876	9.66
	Büyük Birlik	None elected	6954	0.72
	DP	None elected	6392	0.66
	SAADET	None elected	4863	0.50
	HAS Party	None elected	3632	0.37	N/A
	DYP	None elected	2216	0.23
	MP	None elected	2122	0.22
	DSP	None elected	1852	0.19	'"`UNIQ−−ref−00000015−QINU`"'
	Communist_Party_of_Turkey_(today)	None elected	1520	0.16
	HEPAR	None elected	1487	0.15
	Nationalist Conservative	None elected	891	0.09
	Labour	None elected	0
	Liberal Democrat	None elected	0
Turnout			521,086	88.16

Presidential elections

2014

Presidential Election 2014: Mersin^[11]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Independent	Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu	496,780	54.56
	AK Party	Recep Tayyip Erdoğan	291,231	31.98
	HDP	Selahattin Demirtaş	122,561	13.46
Total votes			910,572	100.00
Rejected ballots			12,537	1.36
Turnout			923,109	77.31
	Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu win

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Left the DSP in 2001 to join the newly founded YTP.
^ Left his party in 2005 and briefly joined the SHP before becoming independent once again.
^ Left his party and crossed over to Anavatan in 2004.
^ Left his party and crossed over to Anavatan in 2005.
^ Served as transport minister before leaving his party in 2002 and joining the BBP.
^ Ran in 2011 as an independent candidate and joined the BDP afted being elected.
^ Ali Er left the Motherland Party in August 2002 to join the AK Party, on whose ticket he ran in 2002.
^ Expelled from his party in 2000; subsequently served as an independent.
^ [1] High Electoral Commission of Turkey
^ 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

36°45′N 34°00′E / 36.750°N 34.000°E / 36.750; 34.000

[ytp01-1] Left the DSP in 2001 to join the newly founded YTP.

[2] Left his party in 2005 and briefly joined the SHP before becoming independent once again.

[3] Left his party and crossed over to Anavatan in 2004.

[4] Left his party and crossed over to Anavatan in 2005.

[5] Served as transport minister before leaving his party in 2002 and joining the BBP.

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

[er-7] Ali Er left the Motherland Party in August 2002 to join the AK Party, on whose ticket he ran in 2002.

[8] Expelled from his party in 2000; subsequently served as an independent.

[9] [1] High Electoral Commission of Turkey

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

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

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