Kars (electoral district)

Kars
electoral district
for the Grand National Assembly of Turkey

Kars shown within Turkey
Province Kars
Electorate 185,361
Current electoral district
Created 1920
Seats

3

MPs
Turnout at last election 79.28%
AKP
2 / 3
HDP
1 / 3

Kars 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, Kars's seat allocation has always been low. It was last reduced to three MPs in 1999.

MPs for Kars, 1999 onwards
Seat 1999 (21st parliament) 2002 (22nd parliament) 2007 (23rd parliament) 2011 (24th parliament)
1 İlhan Aküzüm
Anavatan		 Zeki Karabayır
AK Party		 Ahmet Arslan
AK Party
2 Çetin Bilgir
DSP		 Yusuf Selahattin Beyribey
AK Party		 Mahmut Esat Güven
AK Party		 Yunus Kılıç
AK Party
3 Arslan Aydar
MHP		 Selami Yiğit
CHP		 Gürcan Dağdaş
MHP		 Mülkiye Birtane[1]
Independent (BDP)

General elections

2015

General Election 2015: Kars
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
CHP
Total votes
Rejected ballots
Turnout

2011

General Election 2011: Kars[2][3]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
AKP 61,196 42.56 Increase1.37
Independent 27,629 19.21 Increase3.59
MHP 24,744 17.21 Decrease2.82
CHP 24,009 16.70 Increase3.32
BBP 1,647 1.15 Increase1.15
Democratic Left 1,027 0.71 N/A
HAS Party 935 0.65 Increase0.65
Democrat 683 0.47 Decrease3.60
Felicity 630 0.44 Decrease0.88
Turkish Communists 399 0.28 Decrease0.27
DYP 279 0.19 Increase0.19
Nation 205 0.14 Increase0.14
HEPAR 178 0.12 Increase0.12
Nationalist Conservative 165 0.11 Increase0.11
Liberal Democrat 107 0.07 Decrease0.18
Labour No candidates 0 0.00 Steady0.00
Total votes 143,791 100.00
Rejected ballots 3,518 2.39 Increase1.07
Turnout 146,953 79.28 Increase5.95
AKP hold
Majority
 33,567 23.34 Increase2.19

Presidential elections

2014

Presidential Election 2014: Kars[4]
Party Candidate Votes %
AKP Recep Tayyip Erdoğan 53,350 42.52
HDP Selahattin Demirtaş 41,266 32.89
Independent Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu 30,856 24.59
Total votes 125,472 100.00
Rejected ballots 1,775 1.39
Turnout 127,247 68.97
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan win

References

  1. ↑ Ran in 2011 as an independent candidate and joined the BDP afted being elected.
  2. ↑ http://www.sabah.com.tr/gundem/2011/04/29/iste.milletvekili.kesin.aday.listeleri?paging=49
  3. ↑ Turkish electoral commission
  4. ↑ http://www.ysk.gov.tr/ysk/content/conn/YSKUCM/path/Contribution%20Folders/HaberDosya/CB-AdayOylari-ilBazında-2014.pdf

Coordinates: 40°25′N 43°05′E / 40.417°N 43.083°E