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 shown within Turkey
ProvinceŞanlıurfa
Electorate849,100
Current electoral district
Created1923
Seats12
MPs
Turnout at last election82.14%
AK Party
7 / 12
HDP
5 / 12

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. 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
FP		 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
FP		 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
FP		 Mehmet Özlek
AK Party		 Sabahttin Cevheri
AK Party		 Mehmet Kasım Gülpınar
AK Party
8 Eyyüp Cenap Gülpınar
Anavatan		 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
FP		 Sabahattin Cevheri[2]
Independent		 Çağla Aktemur Özyavuz
AK Party		 Faruk Çelik
AK Party		 Ziya Çalışkan
HDP
11 Mehmet Güneş
Anavatan		 Turan Tüysüz[3]
CHP		 İbrahim Binici[4]
Independent (DTP/BDP)		 Leyla Güven
HDP
12 No seat İbrahim Ayhan[5]
Independent (BDP) / HDP

General elections

2011
2011 Turkish general election: Şanlıurfa[6][7]
List Candidates Votes % ±
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
BBP None elected 6,220 0.92
HAS Party None elected 5,925 0.87 N/A
Felicity None elected 3,382 0.5
Democrat None elected 1,743 0.26
TKP None elected 1,235 0.18
DSP None elected 700 0.1 [8]
DYP None elected 598 0.09
Nationalist Conservative None elected 555 0.08
Nation 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
Abbr. Party Votes %
AKP 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
Abbr. Party Votes %
AKP 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
Abbr. Party Votes %
AKP 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

Presidential elections

2014
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
  1. Joined the AK Party in 2010.
  2. Joined the AK Party in 2003.
  3. Left his party and joined Anavatan 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. Hürriyet
  7. http://www.ysk.gov.tr/ysk/docs/2011MilletvekiliSecimi/KesinSonuclar/sanliurfa.pdf
  8. DSP in 2011 is compared to CHP in 2007, under whose list it ran that year
  9. http://www.ysk.gov.tr/ysk/content/conn/YSKUCM/path/Contribution%20Folders/HaberDosya/CB-AdayOylari-ilBazında-2014.pdf

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