Aydın (electoral district)

Aydın
electoral district
for the Grand National Assembly of Turkey

Aydın shown within Turkey
Province Aydın
Electorate 728,328
Current electoral district
Created 1920
Seats

7

Turnout at last election 88.70%[1]
CHP
3 / 7
AKP
3 / 7
MHP
1 / 7

Aydın is an electoral district of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey. It elects seven 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. Aydın elected 8 MPs in 1999, 2002 and 2007. The district has lost one seat since then and has elected 7 MPs since 2011.

MPs for Aydın, 1999 onwards[2][3][4][5]
Election 1999 (21st parliament) 2002 (22nd parliament) 2007 (23rd parliament) 2011 (24th parliament) 2015 (25th parliament)
MP Cengiz Altınkaya
ANAP
Mehmet Boztaş
CHP
Mehmet Fatih Atay
CHP
Bülent Tezcan
CHP
MP Yüksel Yalova
ANAP
Özlem Çerçioğlu
CHP
Metin Lütfi Baydar
CHP
MP Halit Dikmen
DSP
Mehmet Semerci
CHP
Recep Taner
MHP
Osman Aydın
CHP
MP Sema Tutan Pişkinsüt
DSP
Mehmet Mesut Özakcan
CHP
Ali Uzunırmak
MHP
MP Ertüğrül Kumcuoğlu
DSP
Ahmet Rıza Acar
AK Party
Ertüğrül Kumcuoğlu
MHP
Ali Gültekin Kılıç
AK Party
MP Ali Rıza Gönül
DYP
Ahmet Ertürk
AK Party
Semiha Öyüş
AK Party
MP Bekir Ongun
MHP
Semiha Öyüş
AK Party
Mehmet Erdem
AK Party
MP Ali Uzunırmak
MHP
Atilla Koç
AK Party
No seat

General elections

2015

General Election 2015: Aydın
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
AKP
CHP
MHP
HDP
Patriotic
National Alliance
Total votes
Rejected ballots
Turnout

2011

General Election 2011: Aydın[6]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
CHP 241,062 38.12 Increase13.73
AKP 224,330 35.47 Increase6.28
MHP 115,087 18.20 Decrease7.70
Independent 24,078 3.81 Increase1.06
Democrat 7,132 1.13 Decrease8.81
BBP 3,616 0.57 Increase0.57
Felicity 3,129 0.49 Decrease0.57
HAS Party 2,852 0.45 Increase0.45
HEPAR 2,766 0.44 Increase0.44
Democratic Left 2,185 0.35 N/A
DYP 2,048 0.32 Increase0.32
Nation 1,795 0.28 Increase0.28
Nationalist Conservative 1,093 0.17 Increase0.17
Turkish Communists 852 0.13 Decrease0.15
Liberal Democrat 345 0.05 Increase0.05
Labour No candidates 0 0.00 Steady0.00
Total votes 632,370 100.00
Rejected ballots 15,485 2.45 Increase0.72
Turnout 646,026 88.70 Decrease0.15
CHP gain from AKP
Majority
16,732 2.65 Decrease0.65

Presidential elections

2014

Presidential Election 2014: Aydın[7]
Party Candidate Votes %
Independent Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu 336,862 56.28
AKP Recep Tayyip Erdoğan 219,952 36.75
HDP Selahattin Demirtaş 41,682 6.96
Total votes 598,496 100.00
Rejected ballots 11,918 1.95
Turnout 610,414 79.42
Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu win

References

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