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.
Faruk Çelik, Seyit Eyyüpoğlu, Mehmet Kasım Gülpınar, Mehmet Akyürek, Zeynep Armağan Uslu, Halil Özcan, Mahmur Kaçar, Abdulkadir Emin Önen, Yahya Akman, Abdulkerim Gök
^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.
^Ran in 2011 as an independent candidate and joined the BDP afted being elected.