Kocaeli (electoral district)

Kocaeli
electoral district
for the Grand National Assembly of Turkey
Kocaeli highlighted in red on a beige political map of Turkeym
Kocaeli shown within Turkey
ProvinceKocaeli
Electorate1,096,593
Current electoral district
Created1920
Seats11
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
Turnout at last election89.16%
AK Party
6 / 11
CHP
3 / 11
MHP
1 / 11
HDP
1 / 11
Electoral districts of Kocaeli province

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.

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 Of total (%) ± from prev.
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
SAADET None elected 41,870 4.37
Independent None elected 22,153 2.31
HAS Party None elected 14,939 1.56 N/A
DP None elected 5995 0.63
Büyük Birlik None elected 5615 0.59
HEPAR None elected 3796 0.40
DSP None elected 2414 0.25 '"`UNIQ−−ref−00000009−QINU`"'
DYP None elected 1859 0.19
MP 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[3]

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[4]

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[5]

Presidential elections

2014

Presidential Election 2014: Kocaeli[6]
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. ^ [1] Turkish electoral commission
  2. ^ DSP in 2011 is compared to CHP in 2007, under whose list it ran that year
  3. ^ [2]
  4. ^ [3]
  5. ^ [4]
  6. ^ 2014 il bazında aday oyları Yüksek Seçim Kurulu (in Turkish) [dead link‍]

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