Adana (electoral district)

Adana
electoral district
for the Grand National Assembly of Turkey

Adana shown within Turkey
Province Adana
Electorate 1,401,712
Current electoral district
Created 1920
Seats 14
Turnout at last election 85.32%[1]
AKP
6 / 14
CHP
4 / 14
MHP
3 / 14
Vacant
1 / 14

Adana is an electoral district of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey. It elects fourteen 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. Adana has elected fourteen MPs since 1999.

MPs for Adana, 1999 onwards[2][3][4][5]
Election 1999 (21st parliament) 2002 (22nd parliament) 2007 (23rd parliament) 2011 (24th parliament) 2015 (25th parliament)
MP Mehmet Ali Bilici
ANAP
Abdullah Çalışkan
AK Party
Dengir Mehmet Fırat
AK Party
Mehmet Necati Çetinkaya
AK Party
MP Musa Öztürk
ANAP
Ömer Çelik
AK Party
MP İbrahim Yavuz Bildik
DSP
Recep Garip
AK Party
Fatoş Gürkan
AK Party
MP Tayyibe Gülek
DSP
Ali Küçükaydın
AK Party
MP Arif Sezer
DSP
Vahit Kirişçi
AK Party
Mehmet Şükrü Erdinç
AK Party
MP Ali Tekin
DSP
Ayhan Zeynep Tekin
AK Party
Necdet Ünüvar
AK Party
MP İsmet Vursavuş
DSP
Abdullah Torun
AK Party
Hulusi Güvel
CHP
Murat Bozlak
Independent
MP Mehmet Halit Dağlı
DYP
Ziyattin Yağcı
AK Party
Mustafa Vural
CHP
Ali Demirçalı
CHP
MP Yakup Budak
Virtue
Tacidar Seyhan
CHP
Turgay Develi
CHP
MP Ali Gören
Virtue
Nevin Gaye Erbatur
CHP
Osman Faruk Loğoğlu
CHP
MP Mehmet Metanet Çulhaoğlu
MHP
Uğur Aksöz
CHP
Kürşat Atılgan
MHP
Ümit Özgümüş
CHP
MP Ali Halaman
MHP
Atilla Başoğlu
CHP
Muharrem Varlı
MHP
MP Recai Yıldırım
MHP
Kemal Sağ
CHP
Seyfettin Yılmaz
MHP
Recai Yıldırım
MHP
MP Adnan Fatin Özdemir
MHP
Mehmet Ziya Yergök
CHP
Yılmaz Tankut
MHP
Ali Halaman
MHP

General elections

2015

General Election 2015: Adana
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
AKP
CHP
MHP
HDP
Patriotic
National Alliance
ANAPAR
Centre
TURK Party
BTP
Democratic Left
Democrat
Total votes
Rejected ballots
Turnout

2011

General Election 2011: Adana[6]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
AKP 438,321 37.40 Increase0.51
CHP 361,547 30.85 Increase8.02
MHP 238,140 20.32 Decrease2.59
Independent 93,169 7.95 Decrease2.03
Felicity 11,078 0.95 Decrease0.61
BBP 6,885 0.59 Increase0.25
Democrat 6,436 0.55 Decrease4.73
HAS Party 5,265 0.45 Increase0.45
HEPAR 2,183 0.19 Increase0.19
Nation 2,178 0.18 Increase0.18
Democratic Left 2,144 0.18 N/A
DYP 2,055 0.18 Increase0.18
Turkish Communists 1,322 0.11 Decrease0.08
Nationalist Conservative 856 0.07 Increase0.07
Liberal Democrat 332 0.03 Increase0.03
Labour No candidates 0 0.00 Steady0.00
Total votes 1,171,911 100.00
Rejected ballots 24,090 2.01 Increase0.13
Turnout 1,196,001 85.32 Increase6.77

Presidential elections

2014

Presidential Election 2014: Adana[7]
Party Candidate Votes %
Independent Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu 541,567 50.43
AKP Recep Tayyip Erdoğan 417,892 38.91
HDP Selahattin Demirtaş 114,530 10.66
Total votes 1,073,989 100.00
Rejected ballots 14,954 1.37
Turnout 1,088,943 75.02
Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu win

References

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