Ankara (electoral districts)

Ankara
electoral district
for the Grand National Assembly of Turkey

Ankara shown within Turkey
Province Ankara
Electorate 4,771,716
Current electoral district
Created 1923
Seats

32

Subdistricts 1st district
2nd district
AKP
17 / 32
CHP
8 / 32
MHP
4 / 32
ANAPAR
1 / 32
e-Party
1 / 32

Ankara is a Turkish province divided into two electoral districts of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey. It elects thirty-one 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. Ankara is the second largest province in Turkey and saw an increase in its seat allocation ahead of the 2011 election to 31 members, with the first district electing 16 MPs while the second district electing 15 MPs per district.

The province's administrative districts (ilçe) are divided among two electoral districts as follows:[1]

The two electoral districts of Ankara, 2015 boundaries
The two electoral districts of Ankara, 2011 boundaries
1st district 2nd district

General elections

2011

General Election 2011: Ankara
Party Candidates standing Votes Seats won
1st 2nd Total Number % swing 1st 2nd Total elected ±
AK Party
16
15
31
1,466,446
49.24
Increase1.73
8
9
17 / 31
Increase1
CHP
16
15
31
935,688
31.30
Increase3.34
6
4
10 / 31
Increase1
MHP
16
15
31
436,883
14.62
Decrease0.54
2
2
4 / 31
Steady0
BBP
16
15
31
33,162
1.11
Increase1.11
0
0
0 / 31
Steady0
Independents
6
4
10
29,852
1.00
Decrease0.25
0
0
0 / 31
Steady0
HAS Party
16
15
31
22,310
0.75
Increase0.75
0
0
0 / 31
Steady0
Felicity
16
15
31
20,275
0.68
Decrease0.53
0
0
0 / 31
Steady0
Democrat
16
15
31
13,023
0.44
Decrease2.40
0
0
0 / 31
Steady0
HEPAR
15
16
31
6,710
0.22
Increase0.22
0
0
0 / 31
Steady0
Democratic Left
15
16
31
4,911
0.16
N/A
0
0
0 / 31
Steady0
Communist
15
16
31
4,289
0.14
Decrease0.07
0
0
0 / 31
Steady0
Nation
15
16
31
4,253
0.14
Increase0.14
0
0
0 / 31
Steady0
DYP
15
16
31
3,127
0.10
Increase0.10
0
0
0 / 31
Steady0
Nationalist Conservative
15
16
31
1,772
0.06
Increase0.06
0
0
0 / 31
Steady0
Liberal Democrat
15
16
31
920
0.03
Decrease0.03
0
0
0 / 31
Steady0
Labour
0
0
0
0
0.00
Steady0.00
0
0
0 / 31
Steady0
Total
2,989,046
100.00
Steady
15
16
31
Increase2
Rejected ballots
52,768
1.74
Increase0.08
3,032,519
88.93
Increase3.30
AK Party hold
Majority
536,183
18.04
Decrease1.51

Presidential elections

2014

Presidential Election 2014: Ankara[2]
Party Candidate Votes %
AKP Recep Tayyip Erdoğan 1,405,856 51.31
Independent Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu 1,239,264 45.23
HDP Selahattin Demirtaş 95,033 3.47
Total votes 2,740,153 100.00
Rejected ballots 45,155 1.62
Turnout 2,785,308 77.14
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan win

References

  1. ↑ "Allocation of Turkey's parliamentary MPs by province" (PDF). 2011 general election literature. Supreme Electoral Commission of Turkey. Retrieved 30 December 2012.
  2. ↑ http://www.ysk.gov.tr/ysk/content/conn/YSKUCM/path/Contribution%20Folders/HaberDosya/CB-AdayOylari-ilBazında-2014.pdf