Van (electoral district)

Van
Van
electoral district; for the Grand National Assembly of Turkey
	Van shown within Turkey
Province	Van
Electorate	547,016
Current electoral district
Created	1920
Seats	8; Historical 7 (1999-2011); 6 (1995-1999); 5 (1987-1995); 4 (1961-1987); 3 (1957-1961); 4 (1954-1957);
MPs	List Burhan Kayatürk AKP; Fatih Çiftçi AKP; Mustafa Bilici AKP; Gülşen Orhan AKP; Özdal Üçer BDP; Nazmi Gür BDP; Kemal Aktaş Ind; Aysel Tuğluk Ind;
Turnout at last election	80.49%
	Representation
HDP	7 / 8
AK Party	1 / 8
	Politics of Turkey; Political parties; ; Elections previous; next; ;

Van 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. Van's seat allocation has gradually increased over the last sixty years, from three seats in 1957 to eight seats today.

There are currently eight sitting members of parliament representing Van, one of which is 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. Four independent candidates were elected here in 2011; two have since joined the BDP.

MPs for Van since 1999
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:True Path Party/meta/color" \|	Hüseyin Çelik DYP	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Justice and Development Party (Turkey)/meta/color" \|	Hüseyin Çelik AK Party			width=1px style="background-color: Template:Justice and Development Party (Turkey)/meta/color" \|	Burhan Kayatürk 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" \|	Fetullah Gültepe DYP	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Justice and Development Party (Turkey)/meta/color" \|	Cüneyt Karabıyık AK Party	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Justice and Development Party (Turkey)/meta/color" \|	Gülşen Orhan AK Party			width=1px style="background-color: Template:Peoples' Democratic Party (Turkey)/meta/color" \|	Figen Yüksekdağ Şenoğlu HDP	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Peoples' Democratic Party (Turkey)/meta/color" \|
MP	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Virtue Party/meta/color" \|	Fethullah Erbaş FP	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Justice and Development Party (Turkey)/meta/color" \|	Hacı Biner AK Party	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Justice and Development Party (Turkey)/meta/color" \|	İkram Dinçer AK Party	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Justice and Development Party (Turkey)/meta/color" \|	Fatih Çiftçi AK Party	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Peoples' Democratic Party (Turkey)/meta/color" \|	Yurdusev Özsökmenler HDP	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Peoples' Democratic Party (Turkey)/meta/color" \|
MP	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Virtue Party/meta/color" \|	Maliki Ejder Arvas FP	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Justice and Development Party (Turkey)/meta/color" \|	Maliki Ejder Arvas AK Party	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Justice and Development Party (Turkey)/meta/color" \|	Kerem Altun AK Party	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Justice and Development Party (Turkey)/meta/color" \|	Mustafa Bilicir AK Party	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Peoples' Democratic Party (Turkey)/meta/color" \|	Adem Özcaner HDP	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Peoples' Democratic Party (Turkey)/meta/color" \|
MP	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Virtue Party/meta/color" \|	Mustafa Bayram FP	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Justice and Development Party (Turkey)/meta/color" \|	Asuman Yekta Haydaroğlu AK Party	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Justice and Development Party (Turkey)/meta/color" \|	Kayhan Türkmenoğlu AK Party	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color" \|	Kemal Aktaş Independent	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Peoples' Democratic Party (Turkey)/meta/color" \|	Tuğba Hezer 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" \|	Kamran İnan Anavatan	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Justice and Development Party (Turkey)/meta/color" \|	Halil Kaya AK Party	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color" \|	Fatma Kurtulan Independent	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color" \|	Aysel Tuğluk Independent	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Peoples' Democratic Party (Turkey)/meta/color" \|	Selami Özyaşar HDP	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Peoples' Democratic Party (Turkey)/meta/color" \|
MP	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Nationalist Movement Party/meta/color" \|	Ayhan Çevik MHP	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Republican People's Party (Turkey)/meta/color" \|	Mehmet Kartal CHP	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color" \|	Özdal Üçer^[1] Independent (DTP/BDP)			width=1px style="background-color: Template:Peoples' Democratic Party (Turkey)/meta/color" \|	Remzi Özgökçe HDP	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Peoples' Democratic Party (Turkey)/meta/color" \|
MP	No seat						width=1px style="background-color: Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color" \|	Nazmi Gür^[2] Independent (BDP)	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Peoples' Democratic Party (Turkey)/meta/color" \|	Lezgin Botan HDP	width=1px style="background-color: Template:Peoples' Democratic Party (Turkey)/meta/color" \|

General elections

2011

Elected candidates in bold

Turkish general election, 2011: Van^[3]
List		Candidates	Votes	Of total (%)	± from prev.
	AK Party	Burhan Kayatürk, Fatih Çiftçi, Mustafa Bilici, Gülşen Orhan Zahir Soğanda, Abdulahat Arvas, Necat Görentaş, Hasan Karadaş	171,665	40.26
	Independent	Kemal Aktaş	65,447	15.35
	Independent	Özdal Üçer	51,357	12.04
	Independent	Aysel Tuğluk	49.339	11.57
	Independent	Nazmi Gür	41,212	9.67
	CHP	Zahir Kandaşoğlu, Mehmet Acar, Abdulbari Melek, Selim Karakuş, Sabriye Çabuker, Şahin Efendioğlu, Nurettin Erörs, Niyazi Çınak	15,945	3.74
	MHP	Mustafa Kaçmaz, Ahmet Erbaş, Ümit Akdağ, Mustafa Alkoç, Ali Özturan, Turgent Lenk, Yüksel Hanalap, Mehmet Emin İnce	12,734	2.99
	Büyük Birlik	None elected	5306	1.24
	Other independents	Mustafa Sancak, Muhammed Ferhat Kesmez, İdris Ahi, Süleyman Bayram	3974	0.93
	SAADET	None elected	1856	0.44
	HAS Party	None elected	1,734	0.41	N/A
	DP	None elected	1706	0.4
	Communist_Party_of_Turkey_(today)	None elected	1549	0.36
	DSP	None elected	1257	0.29	^[4]
	Liberal Democrat	None elected	482	0.11
	Nationalist Conservative	None elected	465	0.11
	MP	None elected	345	0.08
	DYP	None elected	18	0
	HEPAR	None elected	11	0
	Labour	None elected	0
Turnout			222,977	91.55

Presidential elections

2014

Presidential Election 2014: Van^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	HDP	Selahattin Demirtaş	223,277	54.55
	AK Party	Recep Tayyip Erdoğan	174,369	42.60
	Independent	Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu	11,685	2.85
Total votes			409,331	100.00
Rejected ballots			7,564	1.81
Turnout			416,895	71.89
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Peoples' Democratic Party (Turkey)/meta/color" \|	Selahattin Demirtaş win

References

^ 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
^ 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

38°24′N 43°43′E / 38.400°N 43.717°E / 38.400; 43.717

[1] 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.

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

[3] [1] Hürriyet

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

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

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