Şanlıurfa (electoral district)

Şanlıurfa is an electoral district of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey. It elects twelve 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.

Şanlıurfa
electoral district
for the Grand National Assembly of Turkey
Şanlıurfa highlighted in red on a beige political map of Turkeym
Şanlıurfa shown within Turkey
ProvinceŞanlıurfa
Electorate1.221.634
Current electoral district
Created1923
Seats14
Historical
  • 11 (1999-2011)
    9 (1995-1999)
    8 (1991-1995)
    7 (1987-1991)
    5 (1983-1987)
    7 (1973-1983)
    6 (1969-1973)
    7 (1961-1969)
    9 (1957-1961)
    8 (1954-1957)
MPs
List
Turnout at last election81.82%
AK Party
8 / 14
DEM
4 / 14
MHP
1 / 14
CHP
1 / 14

Members

edit

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. Şanlıurfa is one of the largest in southeast Turkey, sending twelve members to Ankara.

The overwhelming majority of members are from the governing party. Şanlıurfa is 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 such independent candidates was elected here in 2011 and has joined the BDP; another independent candidate was also elected.

MPs for Şanlıurfa, 1999 onwards
Seat 1999 (21st parliament) 2002 (22nd parliament) 2007 (23rd parliament) 2011 (24th parliament) June 2015 (25th parliament)
1 Yahya Akman
Virtue
Yahya Akman
AK Party
Nureddin Nebati
AK Party
2 Mehmet Fevzi Şıhanlıoğlu
DYP
Mahmut Kaplan
AK Party
Abdulkadir Emin Önen
AK Party
Mazhar Bağlı
AK Party
3 Zülfikar İzol
Virtue
Zülfikar İzol
AK Party
Abdülkerim Gök
AK Party
Hamide Sürücü
AK Party
4 Sedat Edip Bucak
DYP
Abdurrahman Müfit Yetkin
AK Party
Mehmet Akyürek
AK Party
Ahmet Eşref Fakıbaba
AK Party
5 Mehmet Yalçınkaya
DYP
Mehmet Atılla Maraş
AK Party
Seyit Eyyüpoğlu[1]
Independent / AK Party
6 Necmettin Cevheri
DYP
Mehmet Faruk Bayrak
AK Party
Ramazan Başak
AK Party
Halil Özcan
AK Party
7 Ahmet Karavar
Virtue
Mehmet Özlek
AK Party
Sabahttin Cevheri
AK Party
Mehmet Kasım Gülpınar
AK Party
8 Eyyüp Cenap Gülpınar
Motherland
Mehmet Vedat Melik
CHP
Eyyüp Cenap Gülpınar
AK Party
Mahmut Kaçar
AK Party
Dilek Öcalan
HDP
9 Muzaffer Çakmaklı
MHP
Mahmut Yıldız
CHP
Mustafa Kuş
AK Party
Zeynep Armağan Uslu
AK Party
Osman Baydemir
HDP
10 Mustafa Niyazi Yanmaz
Virtue
Sabahattin Cevheri[2]
Independent
Çağla Aktemur Özyavuz
AK Party
Faruk Çelik
AK Party
Ziya Çalışkan
HDP
11 Mehmet Güneş
Motherland
Turan Tüysüz[3]
CHP
İbrahim Binici[4]
Independent (DTP/BDP)
Leyla Güven
HDP
12 No seat İbrahim Ayhan[5]
Independent (BDP) / HDP

General elections

edit

2011

edit
2011 Turkish general election: Şanlıurfa[6][7]
List Candidates Votes Of total (%) ± from prev.
AK Party Faruk Çelik, Seyit Eyyüpoğlu, Mehmet Kasım Gülpınar, Mehmet Akyürek, Zeynep Armağan Uslu, Halil Özcan, Mahmur Kaçar, Abdulkadir Emin Önen, Yahya Akman, Abdulkerim Gök 430,453 63.46
Independent İbrahim Ayhan 77,416 11.41
Independent İbrahim Binici 42,463 22.84
Independent Ahmet Ersin Bucak (not elected) 31,090 4.58
MHP None elected 22,357 3.30
CHP None elected 21,777 3.21
Other independents None elected 18,445 2.72
Independent Zülfikar İzol (not elected) 14,724 2.17
Büyük Birlik None elected 6,220 0.92
HAS Party None elected 5,925 0.87 N/A
SAADET None elected 3,382 0.5
DP None elected 1,743 0.26
TKP None elected 1,235 0.18
DSP None elected 700 0.1 '"`UNIQ−−ref−0000000F−QINU`"'
DYP None elected 598 0.09
Nationalist Conservative None elected 555 0.08
MP None elected 426 0.06
Labour None elected 0
Liberal Democrat None elected 0
HEPAR None elected 0
Turnout 678,286 82.14

June 2015

edit
Abbr. Party Votes %
AK Party Justice and Development Party 356,537 46.7%
HDP Peoples' Democratic Party 293,841 38.5%
CHP Republican People's Party 31,273 4.1%
MHP Nationalist Movement Party 42,479 5.6%
Other 39,250 5.1%
Total 763,380
Turnout 80.21
source: YSK

November 2015

edit
Abbr. Party Votes %
AK Party Justice and Development Party 519,079 64.6%
HDP Peoples' Democratic Party 228,807 28.5%
CHP Republican People's Party 21,686 2.7%
MHP Nationalist Movement Party 22,086 2.7%
Other 12,228 1.5%
Total 803,885
Turnout 83,77
source: YSK

2018

edit
Abbr. Party Votes %
AK Party Justice and Development Party 440,085 52.2%
HDP Peoples' Democratic Party 247,256 29.3%
MHP Nationalist Movement Party 77,479 9.2%
CHP Republican People's Party 28,880 3.4%
IYI Good Party 14,965 1.8%
HÜDA-PAR Free Cause Party 13,495 1.6%
SP Felicity Party 10,913 1.3%
Other 10,788 1.3%
Total 843,861
Turnout 81.48
source: YSK

2023

edit
Abbr. Party Votes %
AK Party Justice and Development Party 424.999 43%
YSGP Party of Greens and the Left Future 245.500 24.8%
MHP Nationalist Movement Party 93.267 9.4%
CHP Republican People's Party 79.539 8%
Independent 51.399 5.2%
IYI Good Party 45.097 4.6%
YRP New Welfare Party 28.949 2.9%
Other 20.404 2.1%
Total 999.527
Turnout 81.82%
source: YSK

Presidential elections

edit

2014

edit
Presidential Election 2014: Şanlıurfa[9]
Party Candidate Votes %
AK Party Recep Tayyip Erdoğan 455,170 68.60
HDP Selahattin Demirtaş 174,075 26.24
Independent Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu 34,251 5.16
Total votes 663,496 100.00
Rejected ballots 7,933 1.18
Turnout 671,429 71.86
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan win

References

edit
  1. ^ Joined the AK Party in 2010.
  2. ^ Joined the AK Party in 2003.
  3. ^ Left his party and joined Motherland in 2005.
  4. ^ Ran in 2007 as an independent candidate and joined the DTP afted being elected. Switched to the BDP after the DTP's closure. Ran as an independent candidate again in 2011 and rejointed the BDP afted being elected.
  5. ^ Ran in 2011 as an independent candidate and joined the BDP afted being elected.
  6. ^ 2011 Seçimleri il detayı Hürriyet
  7. ^ 2014 il bazında aday oyları Yüksek Seçim Kurulu (in Turkish) [dead link]
  8. ^ DSP in 2011 is compared to CHP in 2007, under whose list it ran that year
  9. ^ 2014 il bazında aday oyları Yüksek Seçim Kurulu (in Turkish) [dead link]

37°15′N 39°00′E / 37.250°N 39.000°E / 37.250; 39.000