Kocaeli (electoral district)

Kocaeli is an electoral district of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey. It elects fourteen 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.

Kocaeli
electoral district for the Grand National Assembly of Turkey
Kocaeli shown within Turkey
Province	Kocaeli
Electorate	1,096,593
Current electoral district
Created	1920
Seats	11 Historical 9 (2002-2011) 10 (1999-2002) 9 (1995-1999) 7 (1987-1995) 5 (1973-1987) 4 (1969-1973) 5 (1961-1969) 6 (1957-1961) 12 (1954-1957)
MPs	List Nihat Ergün AKP Fikri Işık AKP Azize Sibel Gönül AKP Muzaffer Baştopçu AKP Zeki Aygün AKP İlyas Şeker AKP Mehmet Ali Okur AKP Hurşit Güneş CHP Mehmet Hilal Kaplan CHP Haydar Akar CHP Lütfü Türkkan MHP
Turnout at last election	89.16%
Representation
AK Party	6 / 11
CHP	3 / 11
MHP	1 / 11
HDP	1 / 11
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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. At the last election Kocaeli's seat allocation increased to eleven, having generally increased from a low of 4 MPs in 1969.

MPs for Kocaeli, 1999 onwards
Seat		1999 (21st parliament)		2002 (22nd parliament)		2007 (23rd parliament)		2011 (24th parliament)		June 2015 (25th parliament)
1		Meral Akşener DYP		Nihat Ergün AKP						Cemalettin Kaflı AKP
2		Mehmet Batuk FP		Muzaffer Baştopçu AKP						Mehmet Akif Yılmaz AKP
3		Vecdi Gönül FP		Vecdi Gönül AKP		Azize Sibel Gönül AKP				Radiye Sezer Katırcıoğlu AKP
4		Osman Pepe FP		Osman Pepe AKP				İlyas Şeker AKP
5		Sefer Ekşi Anavatan		Nevzat Doğan AKP		Fikri Işık AKP
6		Cumali Durmuş MHP		Eyüp Ayar AKP				Zeki Aygün AKP
7		Kemal Köse MHP		İzzet Çetin CHP		Cumali Durmuş MHP		Mustafa Sait Gönen MHP		Saffet Sancaklı MHP
8		Ahmet Arkan DSP		Mehmet Sefa Sirmen CHP		Hikmet Erenkaya CHP		Hurşit Güneş CHP		Tahsin Tarhan CHP
9		Halil Çalık DSP		Salih Gün CHP		Mehmet Cevdet Selvi CHP		Mehmet Hilal Kaplan CHP		Fatma Kaplan Hürriyet CHP
10		Muhammet Turhan İmamoğlu DSP	No seat					Haydar Akar CHP
11	No seat							Mehmet Ali Okur AKP		Ali Haydar Konca HDP

General elections

2011

Unelected candidates in small text.

2011 Turkish general election: Kocaeli[1]
List		Candidates	Votes	%	±
	AK Party	Nihat Ergün, Fikri Işık, Azize Sibel Gönül, Muzaffer Baştopçu, Zeki Aygün, İlyas Şeker, Mehmet Ali Okur	504,535	52.71
	CHP	Hurşit Güneş, Mehmet Hilal Kaplan, Haydar Akar	235,770	24.63
	MHP	Lütfü Türkkan	114,304	11.94
	Felicity	None elected	41,870	4.37
	Independent	None elected	22,153	2.31
	HAS Party	None elected	14,939	1.56	N/A
	Democrat	None elected	5995	0.63
	BBP	None elected	5615	0.59
	HEPAR	None elected	3796	0.40
	DSP	None elected	2414	0.25	[2]
	DYP	None elected	1859	0.19
	Nation	None elected	1716	0.18
	TKP	None elected	1452	0.15
	Nationalist Conservative	None elected	759	0.08
	Labour	None elected	0
	Liberal Democrat	None elected	0
Turnout			1,096,593	89.16

June 2015

Abbr.		Party	Votes	%
	AKP	Justice and Development Party	487,781	46.3%
	CHP	Republican People's Party	256,678	24.4%
	MHP	Nationalist Movement Party	161,492	15.3%
	HDP	Peoples' Democratic Party	77,562	7.4%
		Other	69,248	6.6%
Total			1,052,761
Turnout			88.08
source: YSK

November 2015

Abbr.		Party	Votes	%
	AKP	Justice and Development Party	621,198	56.5%
	CHP	Republican People's Party	257,810	23.4%
	MHP	Nationalist Movement Party	123,662	11.2%
	HDP	Peoples' Democratic Party	60,722	5.5%
		Other	36,388	3.3%
Total			1,099,780
Turnout			89.90
source: YSK

2018

Abbr.		Party	Votes	%
	AKP	Justice and Development Party	556,671	47.3%
	CHP	Republican People's Party	235,465	20%
	MHP	Nationalist Movement Party	132,452	11.3%
	IYI	Good Party	122,645	10.4%
	HDP	Peoples' Democratic Party	82,860	7%
	SP	Felicity Party	25,950	2.2%
		Other	19,619	1.7%
Total			1,175,662
Turnout			89.84
source: YSK

Presidential elections

2014

Presidential Election 2014: Kocaeli[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	AK Party	Recep Tayyip Erdoğan	521,489	58.54
	Independent	Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu	320,516	35.98
	HDP	Selahattin Demirtaş	48,893	5.49
Total votes			890,898	100.00
Rejected ballots			21,952	2.40
Turnout			912,850	77.02
	Recep Tayyip Erdoğan win

References

1. Turkish electoral commission
2. DSP in 2011 is compared to CHP in 2007, under whose list it ran that year
3. http://www.ysk.gov.tr/ysk/content/conn/YSKUCM/path/Contribution%20Folders/HaberDosya/CB-AdayOylari-ilBazında-2014.pdf