Şanlıurfa (electoral district)

Şanlıurfa
electoral district
for the Grand National Assembly of Turkey

Şanlıurfa shown within Turkey
Province Şanlıurfa
Electorate 849,100
Current electoral district
Created 1923
Seats

12

MPs
Turnout at last election 82.14%
AKP
10 / 12
HDP
2 / 12

Şanlıurfa is an electoral district of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey. It elects twelve 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. Şanlıurfa is one of the largest in southeast Turkey, sending twelve members to Ankara.

The overwhelming majority of members are from the governing party. Şanlıurfa is 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. One such independent candidates was elected here in 2011 and has joined the BDP; another independent candidate was also elected.

MPs for Şanlıurfa, 1999 onwards
# 1999 (21st parliament) 2002 (22nd parliament) 2007 (23rd parliament) 2011 (24th parliament)
1 Yahya Akman
FP
Yahya Akman
AK Party
2 Mehmet Fevzi Şıhanlıoğlu
DYP
Mahmut Kaplan
AK Party
Abdulkadir Emin Önen
AK Party
3 Zülfikar İzol
FP
Zülfikar İzol
AK Party
Abdülkerim Gök
AK Party
4 Sedat Edip Bucak
DYP
Abdurrahman Müfit Yetkin
AK Party
Mehmet Akyürek
AK Party
5 Mehmet Yalçınkaya
DYP
Mehmet Atılla Maraş
AK Party
Mustafa Kuş
AK Party
Zeynep Armağan Uslu
AK Party
6 Necmettin Cevheri
DYP
Mehmet Faruk Bayrak
AK Party
Ramazan Başak
AK Party
Halil Özcan
AK Party
7 Ahmet Karavar
FP
Mehmet Özlek
AK Party
Sabahttin Cevheri
AK Party
Mahmut Kaçar
AK Party
8 Eyyüp Cenap Gülpınar
Anavatan
Mehmet Vedat Melik
CHP
Eyyüp Cenap Gülpınar
AK Party
Mehmet Kasım Gülpınar
AK Party
9 Muzaffer Çakmaklı
MHP
Mahmut Yıldız
CHP
Seyit Eyyüpoğlu[1]
Independent
Seyit Eyyüpoğlu
AK Party
10 Mustafa Niyazi Yanmaz
FP
Sabahattin Cevheri[2]
Independent
Çağla Aktemur Özyavuz
AK Party
İbrahim Ayhan[3]
Independent (BDP)
11 Mehmet Güneş
Anavatan
Turan Tüysüz[4]
CHP
İbrahim Binici[5]
Independent (DTP/BDP)
12 No seat Faruk Çelik
AK Party

General elections

2011

Turkish general election, 2011: Şanlıurfa[6][7]
List Candidates Votes % ±%
AKP Faruk Çelik, Seyit Eyyüpoğlu, Mehmet Kasım Gülpınar, Mehmet Akyürek, Zeynep Armağan Uslu, Halil Özcan, Mahmur Kaçar, Abdulkadir Emin Önen, Yahya Akman, Abdulkerim Gök 430,453 63.46
Independent İbrahim Ayhan 77,416 11.41
Independent İbrahim Binici 42,463 22.84
Independent Ahmet Ersin Bucak (not elected) 31,090 4.58
MHP None elected 22,357 3.30
CHP None elected 21,777 3.21
Other independents None elected 18,445 2.72
Independent Zülfikar İzol (not elected) 14,724 2.17
BBP None elected 6,220 0.92
HAS Party None elected 5,925 0.87 N/A
Felicity None elected 3,382 0.5
Democrat None elected 1,743 0.26
Turkish Communists None elected 1,235 0.18
Democratic Left None elected 700 0.1 [8]
DYP None elected 598 0.09
Nationalist Conservative None elected 555 0.08
Nation None elected 426 0.06
Labour None elected 0
Liberal Democrat None elected 0
HEPAR None elected 0
Turnout 678,286 82.14

Presidential elections

2014

Presidential Election 2014: Şanlıurfa[9]
Party Candidate Votes %
AKP Recep Tayyip Erdoğan 455,170 68.60
HDP Selahattin Demirtaş 174,075 26.24
Independent Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu 34,251 5.16
Total votes 663,496 100.00
Rejected ballots 7,933 1.18
Turnout 671,429 71.86
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan win

References

  1. Joined the AK Party in 2010.
  2. Joined the AK Party in 2003.
  3. Ran in 2011 as an independent candidate and joined the BDP afted being elected.
  4. Left his party and joined Anavatan in 2005.
  5. 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.
  6. Hürriyet
  7. http://www.ysk.gov.tr/ysk/docs/2011MilletvekiliSecimi/KesinSonuclar/sanliurfa.pdf
  8. DSP in 2011 is compared to CHP in 2007, under whose list it ran that year
  9. http://www.ysk.gov.tr/ysk/content/conn/YSKUCM/path/Contribution%20Folders/HaberDosya/CB-AdayOylari-ilBazında-2014.pdf

Coordinates: 37°15′N 39°00′E / 37.250°N 39.000°E