Kars (electoral district)

Kars is an electoral district of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey. It elects three 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.

Kars
electoral district
for the Grand National Assembly of Turkey
Kars shown within Turkey
ProvinceKars
Electorate185,361
Current electoral district
Created1920
Seats3
MPs
Turnout at last election79.28%
HDP
2 / 3
AK Party
1 / 3

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. As a small electoral district, Kars's seat allocation has always been low. It was last reduced to three MPs in 1999.

MPs for Kars, 1999 onwards
Seat 1999 (21st parliament) 2002 (22nd parliament) 2007 (23rd parliament) 2011 (24th parliament) June 2015 (25th parliament)
1 İlhan Aküzüm
Anavatan		 Zeki Karabayır
AK Party		 Ahmet Arslan
AK Party		 Mehmet Uçum
AK Party
2 Çetin Bilgir
DSP		 Yusuf Selahattin Beyribey
AK Party		 Mahmut Esat Güven
AK Party		 Yunus Kılıç
AK Party		 Ayhan Bilgen
HDP
3 Arslan Aydar
MHP		 Selami Yiğit
CHP		 Gürcan Dağdaş
MHP		 Mülkiye Birtane[1]
Independent (BDP)		 Şafak Özanli
HDP

General elections

2011
General Election 2011: Kars[2][3]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
AK Party 61,196 42.56 1.37
Independent 27,629 19.21 3.59
MHP 24,744 17.21 2.82
CHP 24,009 16.70 3.32
BBP 1,647 1.15 1.15
DSP 1,027 0.71 N/A
HAS Party 935 0.65 0.65
Democrat 683 0.47 3.60
Felicity 630 0.44 0.88
TKP 399 0.28 0.27
DYP 279 0.19 0.19
Nation 205 0.14 0.14
HEPAR 178 0.12 0.12
Nationalist Conservative 165 0.11 0.11
Liberal Democrat 107 0.07 0.18
Labour No candidates 0 0.00 0.00
Total votes 143,791 100.00
Rejected ballots 3,518 2.39 1.07
Turnout 146,953 79.28 5.95
AK Party hold Majority 33,567 23.34 2.19

June 2015
Abbr. Party Votes %
HDP Peoples' Democratic Party 64,315 44%
AKP Justice and Development Party 38,950 26.6%
MHP Nationalist Movement Party 20,507 14%
CHP Republican People's Party 17,485 12%
Other 4,930 3.4%
Total 146,187
Turnout 81.25
source: YSK

November 2015
Abbr. Party Votes %
AKP Justice and Development Party 50,267 35.6%
HDP Peoples' Democratic Party 48,625 34.5%
CHP Republican People's Party 21,315 15.1%
MHP Nationalist Movement Party 17,579 12.5%
Other 3,275 2.3%
Total 141,061
Turnout 78.57
source: YSK

2018
Abbr. Party Votes %
AKP Justice and Development Party 52,791 36.9%
HDP Peoples' Democratic Party 46,285 32.4%
CHP Republican People's Party 20,207 14.1%
IYI Good Party 10,597 7.4%
MHP Nationalist Movement Party 10,145 7.1%
Other 3,026 2.1%
Total 143,051
Turnout 81.13
source: YSK

Presidential elections

2014
Presidential Election 2014: Kars[4]
Party Candidate Votes %
AK Party Recep Tayyip Erdoğan 53,350 42.52
HDP Selahattin Demirtaş 41,266 32.89
Independent Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu 30,856 24.59
Total votes 125,472 100.00
Rejected ballots 1,775 1.39
Turnout 127,247 68.97
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan win

References
  1. Ran in 2011 as an independent candidate and joined the BDP afted being elected.
  2. http://www.sabah.com.tr/gundem/2011/04/29/iste.milletvekili.kesin.aday.listeleri?paging=49
  3. Turkish electoral commission
  4. http://www.ysk.gov.tr/ysk/content/conn/YSKUCM/path/Contribution%20Folders/HaberDosya/CB-AdayOylari-ilBazında-2014.pdf

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