Mersin (electoral district)

Mersin
electoral district
for the Grand National Assembly of Turkey

Mersin shown within Turkey
Province Mersin
Electorate 1,137,834
Current electoral district
Created 1923
Seats

11

MPs
Turnout at last election 87.02%
CHP
3 / 11
AKP
3 / 11
MHP
3 / 11
HDP
1 / 11

Mersin is an electoral district of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey. It elects eleven 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. Mersin elected 12 members until the most recent election in 2011, when the number of seats was dropped to eleven.

MPs for Mersin, 1999 onwards
Seat 1999 (21st parliament) 2002 (22nd parliament) 2007 (23rd parliament) 2011 (24th parliament) June 2015 (25th parliament)
MP Edip Özgenç[1]
DSP / YTP
Ali Oksal
CHP
Aytuğ Atıcı
CHP
MP Akif Serin[1]
DSP / YTP
Ersoy Bulut[2]
CHP
Vahap Seçer
CHP
Hüseyin Çamak
CHP
MP Mustafa İstemihan Talay[1]
DSP / YTP
Hüseyin Güler[3]
CHP / Anavatan
İsa Gök
CHP
Durmuş Fikri Sağlar
CHP
MP Yalçın Kaya
MHP
Hüseyin Özcan[4]
CHP / Anavatan
Ali Rıza Öztürk
CHP
Baki Şimşek
MHP
MP Hidayet Kılınç
MHP
Mustafa Özyürek
CHP
Mehmet Şandır
MHP
Oktay Öztürk
MHP
MP Cahit Tekelioğlu
MHP
Şefik Zengin
CHP
Akif Akkuş
MHP
Ali Öz
MHP
MP Enis Öksüz[5]
MHP / BBP
Vahit Çekmez
CHP
Kadir Ural
MHP
Ertuğrul Kürkçü[6]
Independent (BDP)
Dengir Mir Mehmet Fırat
HDP
MP Ali Er[7]
Anavatan / AK Party
Mehmet Zafer Çağlayan
AK Party
Çilem Öz
HDP
MP Rüştü Kazım Yücelen
Anavatan
Ömer İnan
AK Party
Çiğdem Münevver Ökten
AK Party
Mustafa Muhammet Gültak
AK Party
MP Turhan Güven
DYP
Saffet Benli
AK Party / Anavatan
Kürşad Tüzmen
AK Party
Ahmet Tevfik Uzun
AK Party
Yılmaz Tezcan
AK Party
MP Ayfer Yılmaz
DYP
Mustafa Eyiceoğlu
AK Party
Mehmet Zafer Üskül
AK Party
Nebi Bozkur
AK Party
Muhsin Kızılkaya
AK Party
MP Ali Güngör[8]
MHP / Independent
Dengir Mir Mehmet Fırat
AK Party
Kadir Ural
MHP
Seat abolished

General elections

June 2015

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

2011

Turkish general election, 2011: Mersin[9]
List Candidates Votes % ±%
AKP Mehmet Zafer Çağlayan, Ahmet Tevfik Uzun, Nebi Bozkur, Çiğdem Münevver Ökten 311,050 32.00
CHP Aytuğ Atıcı, Vahap Seçer, İsa Gök, Ali Rıza Öztürk 310,714 31.96
MHP Mehmet Şandır, Ali Öz 224,477 23.09
Independents Ertuğrul Kürkçü 93,876 9.66
BBP None elected 6954 0.72
Democrat None elected 6392 0.66
Felicity None elected 4863 0.50
HAS Party None elected 3632 0.37 N/A
DYP None elected 2216 0.23
Nation None elected 2122 0.22
Democratic Left None elected 1852 0.19 [10]
Turkish Communists None elected 1520 0.16
HEPAR None elected 1487 0.15
Nationalist Conservative None elected 891 0.09
Labour None elected 0
Liberal Democrat None elected 0
Turnout 521,086 88.16

Presidential elections

2014

Presidential Election 2014: Mersin[11]
Party Candidate Votes %
Independent Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu 496,780 54.56
AKP Recep Tayyip Erdoğan 291,231 31.98
HDP Selahattin Demirtaş 122,561 13.46
Total votes 910,572 100.00
Rejected ballots 12,537 1.36
Turnout 923,109 77.31
Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu win

References

  1. 1 2 3 Left the DSP in 2001 to join the newly founded YTP.
  2. Left his party in 2005 and briefly joined the SHP before becoming independent once again.
  3. Left his party and crossed over to Anavatan in 2004.
  4. Left his party and crossed over to Anavatan in 2005.
  5. Served as transport minister before leaving his party in 2002 and joining the BBP.
  6. Ran in 2011 as an independent candidate and joined the BDP afted being elected.
  7. Ali Er left the Motherland Party in August 2002 to join the AK Party, on whose ticket he ran in 2002.
  8. Expelled from his party in 2000; subsequently served as an independent.
  9. High Electoral Commission of Turkey
  10. DSP in 2011 is compared to CHP in 2007, under whose list it ran that year
  11. http://www.ysk.gov.tr/ysk/content/conn/YSKUCM/path/Contribution%20Folders/HaberDosya/CB-AdayOylari-ilBazında-2014.pdf

Coordinates: 36°45′N 34°00′E / 36.750°N 34.000°E / 36.750; 34.000

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