Samsun (electoral district)

Samsun
electoral district
for the Grand National Assembly of Turkey

Samsun shown within Turkey
Province Samsun
Electorate 881,023
Current electoral district
Created 1920
Seats

9

MPs
Turnout at last election 86.78%
AKP
6 / 9
CHP
2 / 9
MHP
1 / 9

Samsun is an electoral district of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey. It elects nine 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. Samsun is a medium-sized constituency currently represented by nine MPs, although this has historically been as high as fourteen.

MPs for Samsun, 1999 onwards
Election 1999 (21st parliament) 2002 (22nd parliament) 2007 (23rd parliament) 2011 (24th parliament)
MP Yekta Açıkgöz
DSP
Suat Kılıç
AK Party
MP Tarık Cengiz
DSP
Cemal Yılmaz Demir
AK Party
MP Şenel Kapıcı
DSP
Ahmet Yeni
AK Party
MP Musa Uzunkaya
FP
Mustafa Demir
AK Party
MP Ahmet Demircan
FP
Mehmet Kurt
AK Party
Fatih Öztürk
AK Party
Tülay Bakır
AK Party
MP Ahmet Aydın
MHP
Musa Uzunkaya
AK Party
Birnur Şahinoğlu
AK Party
Akif Çağatay Kılıç
AK Party
MP Vedat Çınaroğlu
MHP
Mustafa Çakır
AK Party
Osman Çakır
MHP
Cemalettin Şimşek
MHP
MP Erdoğan Sezgin
DYP
Ahmet Haluk Koç
CHP
MP Kemal Kabataş
DYP
İlyas Sezai Önder
CHP
Suat Binici
CHP
Ahmet İhsan Kalkavan
CHP
MP Mehmet Çakar
Anavatan
Seat abolished

General elections

2011

Turkish general election, 2011: Samsun[1]
List Candidates Votes % ±%
AKP Mustafa Demir, Suat Kılıç, Cemal Yılmaz Demir, Tülay Bakır, Akif Çağatay Kılıç, Ahmet Yeni 462,067 61.50
CHP Ahmet Haluk Koç, Ahmet İhsan Kalkavan 162,718 16.20
MHP Cemalettin Şimşek 84,520 11.25
Felicity None elected 11,968 1.59
Democrat None elected 7619 1.01
HAS Party None elected 7194 0.96 N/A
BBP None elected 5002 0.67
DYP None elected 1933 0.26
Democratic Left None elected 1859 0.25 [2]
HEPAR None elected 1702 0.23
Labour None elected 1526 0.2
Turkish Communists None elected 863 0.11
Nationalist Conservative None elected 711 0.09
Independents None elected 648 0.09
Nation None elected 613 0.08
Liberal Democrat None elected 442 0.06
Turnout 543,328 89,24

Presidential elections

2014

Presidential Election 2014: Samsun[3]
Party Candidate Votes %
AKP Recep Tayyip Erdoğan 447,253 65.87
Independent Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu 222,769 32.81
HDP Selahattin Demirtaş 8,954 1.32
Total votes 678,976 100.00
Rejected ballots 14,239 2.05
Turnout 693,215 76.19
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan win

References

  1. High Electoral Commission of Turkey
  2. DSP in 2011 is compared to CHP in 2007, under whose list it ran that year
  3. http://www.ysk.gov.tr/ysk/content/conn/YSKUCM/path/Contribution%20Folders/HaberDosya/CB-AdayOylari-ilBazında-2014.pdf

Coordinates: 41°15′N 36°20′E / 41.250°N 36.333°E