Karaman (electoral district)

Karaman
electoral district
for the Grand National Assembly of Turkey

Karaman shown within Turkey
Province Karaman
Electorate 159,528
Current electoral district
Created 1991
Seats

2

MPs
Turnout at last election 90.08%
AKP
2 / 2

Karaman is an electoral district of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey. It elects three 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. As a small electoral district, Karaman's seat allocation has always been low. It was last reduced to three MPs in 1999.

MPs for Karaman, 1999 onwards
Seat 1999 (21st parliament) 2002 (22nd parliament) 2007 (23rd parliament) 2011 (24th parliament)
1 Zeki Ünal
FP
Mevlüt Akgün
AK Party
2 Fikret Ünlü
DSP
Lütfi Elvan
AK Party
3 Hasan Çalış
MHP
Fikret Ünlü
CHP
Hasan Çalış
MHP
No seat

General elections

2011

General Election 2011: Karaman[1][2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
AKP 80,455 57.29 Increase5.96
CHP 26,511 18.88 Increase3.70
MHP 25,642 18.26 Decrease0.40
Felicity 2,707 1.93 Decrease1.11
HAS Party 1,455 1.04 Increase1.04
BBP 994 0.71 Increase0.71
Democrat 835 0.59 Decrease6.09
HEPAR 351 0.25 Increase0.25
DYP 312 0.22 Increase0.22
Democratic Left 309 0.22 N/A
Labour 292 0.21 Decrease0.03
Nationalist Conservative 169 0.12 Increase0.12
Turkish Communists 165 0.12 Decrease0.08
Nation 138 0.10 Increase0.10
Liberal Democrat 107 0.07 Decrease0.18
Total votes 140,442 100.00
Rejected ballots 3,608 2.51 Increase1.35
Turnout 143,603 90.02 Increase0.34
AKP hold
Majority
53,944 38.41 Increase5.74

Presidential elections

2014

Presidential Election 2014: Karaman[3]
Party Candidate Votes %
AKP Recep Tayyip Erdoğan 88,813 66.22
Independent Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu 43,093 32.13
HDP Selahattin Demirtaş 2,212 1.65
Total votes 134,118 100.00
Rejected ballots 4,789 3.45
Turnout 165,590 83.89
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan win

References

Coordinates: 37°05′N 33°15′E / 37.083°N 33.250°E