Bartın (electoral district)

Bartın
electoral district
for the Grand National Assembly of Turkey

Bartın shown within Turkey
Province Bartın
Electorate 140,076
Current electoral district
Created 1991
Seats 2
Turnout at last election 88.31%[1]
AKP
1 / 2
CHP
1 / 2

Bartın is an electoral district of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey. It elects two 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. Bartın became an electoral district for the 1991 general election and has continuously elected two MPs.

MPs for Bartın, 1999 onwards[2][3][4][5]
Election 1999 (21st parliament) 2002 (22nd parliament) 2007 (23rd parliament) 2011 (24th parliament) 2015 (25th parliament)
MP Zeki Çakan
ANAP
Hacı İbrahim Kabarık
AK Party
Yılmaz Tunç
AK Party
MP Cafer Tufan Yazıcıoğlu
DSP
Mehmet Asım Kulak
AK Party
Muhammet Rıza Yalçınkaya
AK Party

General elections

2011

General Election 2011: Bartın[6]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
AKP 57,783 48.16 Increase9.59
CHP 34,499 28.75 Increase6.06
MHP 19,189 15.99 Decrease5.69
Felicity 2,951 2.45 Decrease0.02
HAS Party 1,201 1.00 Increase1.00
Democrat 1,158 0.96 Decrease6.75
Democratic Left 701 0.58 N/A
DYP 423 0.35 Increase0.35
Labour 417 0.34 Increase0.02
BBP 393 0.32 Increase0.32
HEPAR 384 0.32 Increase0.32
Nation 251 0.20 Increase0.20
Nationalist Conservative 212 0.17 Increase0.17
Turkish Communists 206 0.17 Decrease0.08
Liberal Democrat 195 0.16 Decrease0.29
Total votes 119,963 100.00
Rejected ballots 4,121 3.33 Increase1.30
Turnout 123,704 88.31 Increase1.84

Presidential elections

2014

Presidential Election 2014: Bartın[7]
Party Candidate Votes %
AKP Recep Tayyip Erdoğan 63,612 57.71
Independent Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu 44,035 39.95
HDP Selahattin Demirtaş 2,586 2.35
Total votes 110,233 100.00
Rejected ballots 4,056 3.55
Turnout 114,289 80.08
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan win

References

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