Mardin (electoral district)

Mardin is an electoral district of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey. It elects six 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.

Mardin
electoral district
for the Grand National Assembly of Turkey
Mardin shown within Turkey
ProvinceMardin
Electorate397,634
Current electoral district
Created1920
Seats6
MPs
Turnout at last election82.39%
HDP
5 / 6
AK Party
1 / 6

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. Mardin's seat allocation has varied little over the last sixty years, keeping around the six seats it has today.

There are currently six sitting members of parliament representing Mardin, three of which are from the governing party. Van was 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. Three independent candidates were elected here in 2011; two have since joined the BDP.

MPs for Mardin, 1999 onwards
Seat 1999 (21st parliament) 2002 (22nd parliament) 2007 (23rd parliament) 2011 (24th parliament) June 2015 (25th parliament)
1 Fehim Adak
FP		 Selahattin Cebeli
AK Party		 Gönül Bekin Şahkulubey
AK Party		 Orhan Miroğlu
AK Party
2 Metin Musaoğlu
DYP		 Nihat Eri
AK Party		 Cüneyt Yüksel
AK Party		 Abdurrahim Akdağ
AK Party		 Mithat Sancar
HDP
3 Veysi Şahin
DYP		 Mehmet Beşir Hamidi
AK Party		 Mehmet Halit Demir
AK Party		 Muammer Güler
AK Party		 Mehmet Ali Aslan
HDP
4 Süleyman Çelebi
Anavatan		 Mahmut Duyan
CHP		 Süleyman Çelebi
AK Party		 Erol Dora[1]
Independent (BDP) / HDP
5 Ömer Ertaş
Anavatan		 Muharrem Doğan
CHP		 Ahmet Türk[2]
DTP / Independent		 Enise Güneyli
HDP
6 Mustafa Kemal Tuğmaner
DSP		 Süleyman Bölünmez
Independent'		 Emine Ayna[3]
Independent (DTP)		 Gülser Yıldırım[4]
Independent (DTP/BDP) / HDP

General elections

2011

Unelected candidates in small text.

2011 Turkish general election: Mardin[5][6]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
AK Party Muammer Güler, Gönül Bekin Şahkulubey, Abdurrahim Akdağ 103,402 32.17
Independent Ahmet Türk 59,350 18.52
Independent Gülser Yıldırım 55,505 17.32
Independent Erol Dora 51,980 16.22
Independent Süleyman Bölünmez 28,746 8.97
CHP None elected 11,953 3.72
BBP None elected 2842 0.88
HAS Party None elected 2097 0.65 N/A
MHP None elected 2041 0.64
Felicity None elected 895 0.28
Democrat None elected 845 0.26
DSP None elected 658 0.20 [7]
TKP None elected 474 0.15
Nationalist Conservative None elected 240 0.07
Nation None elected 234 0.07
Liberal Democrat None elected 129 0.04
DYP None elected 0
HEPAR None elected 0
Labour None elected 0
Turnout 321,391 82.39

June 2015
Abbr. Party Votes %
HDP Peoples' Democratic Party 276,920 73.3%
AKP Justice and Development Party 72,645 19.2%
HÜDA-PAR Free Cause Party 5,312 1.4%
MHP Nationalist Movement Party 4,198 1.1%
CHP Republican People's Party 3,736 1%
Other 15,212 4%
Total 378,023
Turnout 87,30
source: YSK

November 2015
Abbr. Party Votes %
HDP Peoples' Democratic Party 258,384 68.4%
AKP Justice and Development Party 107,804 28.5%
CHP Republican People's Party 5,087 1.3%
MHP Nationalist Movement Party 2,959 0.8%
Other 3,733 1%
Total 377,967
Turnout 86.53
source: YSK

2018
Abbr. Party Votes %
HDP Peoples' Democratic Party 233,657 60.6%
AKP Justice and Development Party 113,634 29.5%
CHP Republican People's Party 10,915 2.8%
MHP Nationalist Movement Party 9,387 2.4%
HÜDA-PAR Free Cause Party 8,253 2.1%
IYI Good Party 3,952 1%
SP Felicity Party 3,151 0.8%
Other 2,232 0.6%
Total 385,281
Turnout 84.10
source: YSK

Presidential elections

2014
Presidential Election 2014: Mardin[8]
Party Candidate Votes %
HDP Selahattin Demirtaş 198,542 60.90
AK Party Recep Tayyip Erdoğan 119,362 36.61
Independent Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu 8,094 2.48
Total votes 325,998 100.00
Rejected ballots 3,845 1.17
Turnout 329,843 76.45
Selahattin Demirtaş win

References
  1. Ran in 2011 as an independent candidate and joined the BDP afted being elected.
  2. Ran as an independent candidate in 2007 and joined the DTP after being elected. Was expelled as an MP when that party was closed down in 2009. Ran as an independent in 2011 and is currently prohibited from joining any political party. Resigned in 2014 to contest the 2014 local elections and was elected as the Mayor of Mardin.
  3. Ran as an independent candidate in 2007 and joined the DTP after being elected.
  4. Ran as an independent candidate in 2011 and joined the BDP after being elected.
  5. Turkish electoral commission
  6. Hürriyet
  7. DSP in 2011 is compared to CHP in 2007, under whose list it ran that year
  8. http://www.ysk.gov.tr/ysk/docs/2011MilletvekiliSecimi/KesinSonuclar/igdir.pdf

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