Siirt (electoral district)

Siirt
electoral district
for the Grand National Assembly of Turkey

Siirt shown within Turkey
Province Siirt
Electorate 153,419
Current electoral district
Created 1920
Seats

3

MPs
Turnout at last election 81.82%
AKP
2 / 3
Vacant
1 / 3

Siirt 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. Siirt's seat allocation has been remained unchanged at three seats since 1991.

Siirt is distinctive as being the site of a by-election, a rarity in Turkish politics, which in 2003 saw Recep Tayyip Erdoğan elected to parliament after a law barring candidates with criminal convictions from standing was amended. Erdoğan subsequently became prime minister.

More recently, Siirt was a district where the pro-Kurdish Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) ran independent candidates in an attempt to overcome the 10 percent national electoral threshold. One independent candidate was elected here in 2011 and has since joined the BDP.

MPs for Siirt, 1999 onwards
Election 1999 (21st parliament) 2002 (22nd parliament) 2003 (by-election) (22nd parliament) 2007 (23rd parliament) 2011 (24th parliament)
MP Nizamettin Sevgili
Anavatan		 Mervan Gül
AK Party		 Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
AK Party		 Afif Demirkıran
AK Party
MP Takiddin Yarayan
DYP		 Ekrem Bilek
CHP		 Öner Ergenç
AK Party		 Mehmet Yılmaz Helvacıoğlu
AK Party		 Osman Ören
AK Party
MP Ahmet Nurettin Aydın
FP		 Fadıl Akgündüz
Independent		 Öner Gülyeşil
AK Party		 Osman Özçelik
Independent		 Gültan Kışanak
Independent

General elections

2011

Turkish general election, 2011: Siirt[1]
List Candidates Votes % ±%
AKP Afif Demirkıran, Osman Ören 58,623 48.03 -0.74
Independent Gültan Kışanak 51,809 42.45 2.94
CHP None elected 3,520 2.88 -0.58
BBP None elected 1,952 1.6
HAS Party None elected 1,433 1.18 N/A
MHP None elected 1,433 1.17 -1.6
Democratic Left None elected 1,263 1.03 -2.43[2]
Felicity None elected 911 0.75 -0.22
Democrat None elected 503 0.41 -2.5
Turkish Communists None elected 344 0.28 0.09
Nationalist Conservative None elected 86 0.07
Nation None elected 85 0.07
Liberal Democrat None elected 73 0.06 -0.02
DYP None elected 0
HEPAR None elected 0
Labour None elected 0
Turnout 122,045 81.82 2.05

2007

Turkish general election, 2007: Siirt [3][4]
List Candidates Votes % ±%
AKP Afif Demikıran, Osman Özçelik 44,836 48.78 -36.05
Independent Osman Özçelik 36,320 39.51 25.86
CHP None elected 3181 3.46 -1.33
Democrat None elected 2674 2.91 -1.85
MHP None elected 2546 2.77 -4.36
Felicity None elected 884 0.96 -0.71
HYP None elected 360 0.39 N/A
BTP None elected 257 0.28 -0.11
ATP None elected 218 0.24 N/A
Turkish Communists None elected 179 0.17 -0.6
İP None elected 152 0.17 -0.6
GP None elected 149 0.16 -0.98
ÖDP None elected 88 0.1 -0.1
Liberal Democrat None elected 75 0.08 -0.1
Turnout 91,919 79.77 18.0

2003

Siirt by-election, 9 March 2003 [5]
List Candidates Votes % ±%
AKP Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Öner Ergenç, Öner Gülyeşil 55,203 84.82 67.26
CHP None elected 8972 13.79 4.86
İP None elected 500 0.77 0.63
Turkish Communists None elected 404 0.62 0.53
Turnout 73,624 61.77 -12.38

2002

This election was successfully challenged by the AK Party arguing that a boycott by in villagers in Doğan, near Pervari in Siirt, and the absence of an electoral board for the region rendered the vote invalid.[6] A fresh ballot was held on 9 March 2003.

Turkish general election, 2002: Trabzon [7]
List Candidates Votes % ±%
DEHAP None elected 26,980 32.17 [8]
AKP Mervan Gül 14,728 17.56 [9]
Independent Mehmet Fadıl Akgündüz 11,450 13.65 N/A
ANAP None elected 8258 9.85
CHP Ekrem Bilek 7481 8.92
MHP None elected 5979 7.13
DYP None elected 3993 4.76
Felicity None elected 1402 1.67 [9]
GP None elected 954 1.14 N/A
BBP None elected 607 0.72
Democratic Left None elected 400 0.48
Homeland None elected 392 0.47 N/A
BTP None elected 328 0.39 N/A
YTP None elected 198 0.24 N/A
Nation None elected 194 0.23
ÖDP None elected 161 0.19
Liberal Democrat None elected 154 0.18
İP None elected 116 0.14
Turkish Communists None elected 80 0.1 N/A
Turnout 83,855 74.15

Presidential elections

2014

Presidential Election 2014: Siirt[10]
Party Candidate Votes %
HDP Selahattin Demirtaş 65,500 54.07
AKP Recep Tayyip Erdoğan 51,379 42.41
Independent Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu 4,257 3.51
Total votes 121,136 100.00
Rejected ballots 2,371 1.92
Turnout 123,507 74.70
Selahattin Demirtaş win

References

  1. ↑ Electoral Commission
  2. ↑ DSP in 2011 is compared to CHP in 2007, under whose list it ran that year
  3. ↑ High Electoral Commission of Turkey
  4. ↑ Percentage change figures for the AK Party, CHP, IP and Communist Party are compared to the 2003 by-election. All other parties are compared to their performance in 2002, the last election in Siirt they contested
  5. ↑ TESAV
  6. ↑ Radikal, Siirt seçimleri iptal, published 2 December 2002.
  7. ↑ Electoral Commission
  8. ↑ DEHAP in 2002 is compared to 1999 performance of HADEP, a predecessor party
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 AK Party and SP in 2002 are compared to 1999 performance of FP, from which both parties split
  10. ↑ http://www.ysk.gov.tr/ysk/docs/2011MilletvekiliSecimi/KesinSonuclar/igdir.pdf

Coordinates: 37°50′N 42°10′E / 37.833°N 42.167°E