Isparta (electoral district)

Isparta is an electoral district of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey. It elects four 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.

Isparta returned four MPs during the 1999 parliamentary election. five MPs during the parliamentary elections in 2002 and 2007. In 2011, the number of seats again fell to four.

Isparta is famous for being the constituency from which Süleyman Demirel, the 12th Prime Minister of Turkey and the 9th President of Turkey, was elected to parliament as leader of the Justice Party and later the True Path Party during the 1960-90s.

General elections

2011

General Election 2011: Isparta^[6]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	AK Party	2 elected                              1 1. Sürreya Sadi Bilgiç Y 2. Recep Özel Y 3. Suat Kolukırık N 4. Pınar Taner Topsakal N	135,435	52.90	9.03
	CHP	1 elected                              0 1. Ali Haydar Öner Y 2. İrfan Bakır N 3. Tanseli Çakmak N 4. Naci Yoldaş N	55,594	21.72	8.37
	MHP	1 elected                              0 1. Süleyman Nevzat Korkmaz Y 2. Hüseyin Avni Bıçaklı N 3. Ahmet Ziya Nuhoğlu N 4. Ahmet Ayyıldız N	48,412	18.91	4.75
	Democrat	None elected 1. Nuri Kaplan N 2. Hasan Kaleli N 3. Fikret Sevinç N 4. Mehmet Ateş N	3,745	1.46	10.83
	Felicity	None elected 1. Abdulbaki Özyurt N 2. Dinçer Demirezen N 3. Hüseyin Yıldızhan N 4. Adem Oflaz N	3,272	1.28	1.59
	HAS Party	None elected 1. Faruk Algınkılıç N 2. Zhra Kütükcü N 3. Ali Uysal N 4. Nermin Marulcu N	2,620	1.02	1.02
	BBP	None elected 1. Erdoğan Yeşilyayla N 2. Ayşegül Acar N 3. İsmail Yusuf Atasağun N 4. Yusuf Işık N	2,115	0.83	0.83
	DYP	None elected 1. İzzet Bilgin N 2. Hüseyin Ali Durmuş N 3. Doğan Hamza Koyu N 4. Ahmet Savcı N	1,247	0.49	0.49
	Independent	None elected Mehmet Deniz Yıldırım N Mehmet Şevket Savlu N Adem Öcal N	966	0.38	0.24
	HEPAR	None elected 1. Ali Meydan N 2. Ramazan Aydınlı N 3. Nuri Selim Çetin N 4. Emine Akgün N	734	0.29	0.29
	Labour	None elected 1. Şükrü Taş N 2. Sıla Söğütlü N 3. Mehmet Hamdi Balcı N 4. Gönül Karagenç N	530	0.21	0.00
	Democratic Left	None elected 1. Erdinç Caner Erarslan N 2. Bircan Aslan N 3. Nihat Doğanay N 4. Hasan İsa Güneşsever N	453	0.18	N/A
	Nation	None elected 1. Mehmet Zeki Özen N 2. Ali İhsan Başat N 3. Osman Ertuğrul N 4. Mevlüt Yavuz N	263	0.10	0.10
	Nationalist Conservative	None elected 1. Emrah Uslu N 2. Ali Altuğ N 3. Nuray Ordu N 4. Alev Gökdağ N	256	0.10	0.10
	Turkish Communists	None elected 1. İskender Aycan Doğer N 2. Zehra Adıgüzel N 3. Fatma Özbek Şanci N 4. Erol Altıntaş N	246	0.10	0.06
	Liberal Democrat	None elected 1. Seyit Çakmacı N 2. Enver Gülgen N 3. Evrim Mintaz N 4. Serhat Akkoyun N	119	0.05	0.04
Total votes			256,007	100.00
Rejected ballots			8,234	3.13	1.24
Turnout			263,442	88.35	0.13

Presidential elections

2014

References

Coordinates: 37°50′N 34°45′E / 37.833°N 34.750°E / 37.833; 34.750