Şırnak (electoral district)

Şırnak
electoral district
for the Grand National Assembly of Turkey

Şırnak shown within Turkey
Province Şırnak
Electorate 204,010
Current electoral district
Created 1991
Seats

4

MPs
Turnout at last election 86.89%
HDP
3 / 4
AKP
1 / 4

Şırnak is an electoral district of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey. It elects four 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. Şırnak became a province in 1990 and first sent members of parliament to Ankara - three of them - the following year. The seat allocation was increased to four ahead of the 2011 election.

There are currently four sitting members of parliament representing Şırnak, one of which is from the governing party. Şırnak 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; all have since joined the BDP.

MPs for Şırnak, 1999 onwards
Election 1999 (21st parliament) 2002 (22nd parliament) 2007 (23rd parliament) 2011 (24th parliament)
MP Mehmet Salih Yıldırım
Anavatan		 Mehmet Tatar
Independent		 Sevahir Bayındır[1]
Independent (DTP)		 Selma Irmak[2]
Independent (BDP)
MP Mehmet Sait Değer
DYP		 İbrahim Hakkı Birlik
AK Party		 Hasip Kaplan[3]
Independent (DTP/BDP)
MP No seat Faysal Sarıyıldız[4]
Independent (BDP)
MP Abdullah Veli Seyda
FP		 Abdullah Veli Seyda
AK Party		 Mehmet Emin Dindar
AK Party

General elections

2011

Elected candidates in bold

Turkish general election, 2011: Şırnak[5][6]
List Candidates Votes % ±%
Independent Selma Irmak 46,278 26.71
Independent Faysal Sarıyıldız 39,570 22.84
Independent Hasip Kaplan 39,434 22.76
AKP Mehmet Emin Dindar 35,714 20.61
CHP None elected 5,155 2.98
MHP None elected 2,033 1.17
BBP None elected 1,817 1.05
HAS Party None elected 1,009 0.58 N/A
Democratic Left None elected 852 0.49 [7]
Democrat None elected 491 0.28
Turkish Communists None elected 343 0.20
Felicity None elected 256 0.15
DYP None elected 120 0.07
Nationalist Conservative None elected 116 0.07
Nation None elected 69 0.04
Labour None elected 0
Liberal Democrat None elected 0
HEPAR None elected 0
Turnout 173,257 86,89

Presidential elections

2014

Presidential Election 2014: Şırnak[8]
Party Candidate Votes %
HDP Selahattin Demirtaş 158,836 83.17
AKP Recep Tayyip Erdoğan 5,979 14.79
Independent Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu 3,891 2.04
Total votes 190,970 100.00
Rejected ballots 2,420 1.25
Turnout 193,390 82.16
Selahattin Demirtaş win

References

  1. ↑ Ran in 2007 as an independent candidate and joined the DTP afted being elected. Switched to the BDP after the DTP's closure.
  2. ↑ Ran in 2011 as an independent candidate and joined the BDP afted being elected.
  3. ↑ 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.
  4. ↑ Ran in 2011 as an independent candidate and joined the BDP afted being elected.
  5. ↑ Hürriyet
  6. ↑ http://www.ysk.gov.tr/ysk/docs/2011MilletvekiliSecimi/KesinSonuclar/sirnak.pdf
  7. ↑ DSP in 2011 is compared to CHP in 2007, under whose list it ran that year
  8. ↑ http://www.ysk.gov.tr/ysk/docs/2011MilletvekiliSecimi/KesinSonuclar/igdir.pdf

Coordinates: 37°34′N 42°34′E / 37.567°N 42.567°E