İstanbul (electoral districts)

İstanbul is a Turkish province divided into three electoral districts of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey. It elects eighty-five 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.

The first district is situated on the Anatolian side of İstanbul on the east of the Bosphorus. The second and third electoral district are both on the European side, with the third situated to the west of the second. The first district, electing 30 MPs, is the largest electoral district of Turkey in terms of members elected.

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. İstanbul has the largest number of allocated seats and also the largest number of electoral districts within its provincial boundaries.

The province's administrative districts (ilçe) are divided among three electoral districts as follows:^[1]

The three electoral districts of İstanbul

  First electoral district (30 MPs)

  Second electoral district (27 MPs)

  Third electoral district (28 MPs)

General elections

2011

General Election 2011: İstanbul
Party		Candidates standing				Votes			Seats won
		1st	2nd	3rd	Total	Number	%	swing	1st	2nd	3rd	Total elected	change ±
	AK Party	30	27	28	85	3,931,210	49.38	4.22	16	15	15	46 / 85	7
	CHP	30	27	28	85	2,492,910	31.31	4.32	11	9	9	29 / 85	7
	MHP	30	27	28	85	747,666	9.39	1.05	2	2	3	7 / 85	0
	Independents	12	8	10	30	425,417	5.34	0.53	1	1	1	3 / 85	1
	Felicity	30	27	28	85	129,030	1.62	1.41	0	0	0	0 / 85	0
	HAS Party	30	27	28	85	57,399	0.72	0.72	0	0	0	0 / 85	0
	BBP	30	27	28	85	50,023	0.63	0.63	0	0	0	0 / 85	0
	Democrat	30	27	28	85	33,122	0.42	2.66	0	0	0	0 / 85	0
	HEPAR	30	27	28	85	32,740	0.41	0.41	0	0	0	0 / 85	0
	Democratic Left	30	27	28	85	19,489	0.24	N/A	0	0	0	0 / 85	0
	Communist	30	27	28	85	16,626	0.21	0.01	0	0	0	0 / 85	0
	Nation	30	27	28	85	14,831	0.19	0.19	0	0	0	0 / 85	0
	Nationalist Conservative	30	27	28	85	4,321	0.05	0.05	0	0	0	0 / 85	0
	Liberal Democrat	30	27	28	85	3,364	0.04	0.01	0	0	0	0 / 85	0
	DYP	30	0	0	30	2,759	0.03	0.03	0	0	0	0 / 85	0
	Labour	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0.00	0	0	0	0 / 85	0
Total						7,960,907	100.00		30	27	28	85	15
Rejected ballots						175,733	2.17	2.86
Turnout						8,112,340	86.32	4.33
	AK Party hold Majority					1,436,300	18.04	0.13

Presidential elections

2014

References

Coordinates: 41°10′N 28°45′E / 41.167°N 28.750°E / 41.167; 28.750