Mersin (electoral district)

Mersin
electoral district
for the Grand National Assembly of Turkey
Mersin highlighted in red on a beige political map of Turkeym
Mersin shown within Turkey
ProvinceMersin
Electorate1,304,186
Current electoral district
Created1923
Seats13
Historical
  • 12 (1995-2011)
MPs
List
Turnout at last election88.75%
AK Party
4 / 13
CHP
3 / 13
HDP
2 / 13
İYİ
2 / 13
MHP
2 / 13

Mersin is an electoral district of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey. It elects eleven 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. Mersin elected 12 members until the most recent election in 2011, when the number of seats was dropped to eleven.

MPs for Mersin, 1999 onwards
Seat 1999 (21st parliament) 2002 (22nd parliament) 2007 (23rd parliament) 2011 (24th parliament) June 2015 (25th parliament)
MP Edip Özgenç[1]
DSP / YTP 		Ali Oksal
CHP 		Aytuğ Atıcı
CHP
MP Akif Serin[1]
DSP / YTP 		Ersoy Bulut[2]
CHP 		Vahap Seçer
CHP 		Hüseyin Çamak
CHP
MP Mustafa İstemihan Talay[1]
DSP / YTP 		Hüseyin Güler[3]
CHP / Anavatan 		İsa Gök
CHP 		Durmuş Fikri Sağlar
CHP
MP Yalçın Kaya
MHP 		Hüseyin Özcan[4]
CHP / Anavatan 		Ali Rıza Öztürk
CHP 		Baki Şimşek
MHP
MP Hidayet Kılınç
MHP 		Mustafa Özyürek
CHP 		Mehmet Şandır
MHP 		Oktay Öztürk
MHP
MP Cahit Tekelioğlu
MHP 		Şefik Zengin
CHP 		Akif Akkuş
MHP 		Ali Öz
MHP
MP Enis Öksüz[5]
MHP / BBP 		Vahit Çekmez
CHP 		Kadir Ural
MHP 		Ertuğrul Kürkçü[6]
Independent (BDP) 		Dengir Mir Mehmet Fırat
HDP
MP Ali Er[7]
Motherland / AK Party 		Mehmet Zafer Çağlayan
AK Party 		Çilem Öz
HDP
MP Rüştü Kazım Yücelen
Motherland 		Ömer İnan
AK Party 		Çiğdem Münevver Ökten
AK Party 		Mustafa Muhammet Gültak
AK Party
MP Turhan Güven
DYP 		Saffet Benli
AK Party / Motherland 		Kürşad Tüzmen
AK Party 		Ahmet Tevfik Uzun
AK Party 		Yılmaz Tezcan
AK Party
MP Ayfer Yılmaz
DYP 		Mustafa Eyiceoğlu
AK Party 		Mehmet Zafer Üskül
AK Party 		Nebi Bozkur
AK Party 		Muhsin Kızılkaya
AK Party
MP Ali Güngör[8]
MHP / Independent 		Dengir Mir Mehmet Fırat
AK Party 		Kadir Ural
MHP 		Seat abolished

General elections

2011

2011 Turkish general election: Mersin[9]
List Candidates Votes Of total (%) ± from prev.
AK Party Mehmet Zafer Çağlayan, Ahmet Tevfik Uzun, Nebi Bozkur, Çiğdem Münevver Ökten 311,050 32.00
CHP Aytuğ Atıcı, Vahap Seçer, İsa Gök, Ali Rıza Öztürk 310,714 31.96
MHP Mehmet Şandır, Ali Öz 224,477 23.09
Independents Ertuğrul Kürkçü 93,876 9.66
Büyük Birlik None elected 6954 0.72
DP None elected 6392 0.66
SAADET None elected 4863 0.50
HAS Party None elected 3632 0.37 N/A
DYP None elected 2216 0.23
MP None elected 2122 0.22
DSP None elected 1852 0.19 '"`UNIQ−−ref−00000013−QINU`"'
TKP None elected 1520 0.16
HEPAR None elected 1487 0.15
Nationalist Conservative None elected 891 0.09
Labour None elected 0
Liberal Democrat None elected 0
Turnout 521,086 88.16

June 2015

Abbr. Party Votes %
CHP Republican People's Party 298,278 28.9%
AK Party Justice and Development Party 266,760 25.9%
MHP Nationalist Movement Party 255,705 24.8%
HDP Peoples' Democratic Party 184,018 17.9%
SP Felicity Party 10,603 1%
Other 15,267 1.5%
Total 1,030,631
Turnout 86.62
source: YSK

November 2015

Abbr. Party Votes %
AK Party Justice and Development Party 325,723 31.1%
CHP Republican People's Party 319,630 30.5%
MHP Nationalist Movement Party 224,219 21.4%
HDP Peoples' Democratic Party 156,873 15%
SP Felicity Party 3,765 0.4%
Other 18,506 1.8%
Total 1,048,716
Turnout 87.41
source: YSK

2018

Abbr. Party Votes %
AK Party Justice and Development Party 302,200 27.4%
CHP Republican People's Party 296,514 26.9%
HDP Peoples' Democratic Party 186,663 16.9%
IYI Good Party 151,924 13.8%
MHP Nationalist Movement Party 139,581 12.7%
SP Felicity Party 7,515 0.7%
HÜDA-PAR Free Cause Party 4,486 0.4%
Other 13,675 1.2%
Total 1,102,558
Turnout 88.45
source: YSK

Presidential elections

2014

Presidential Election 2014: Mersin[11]
Party Candidate Votes %
Independent Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu 496,780 54.56
AK Party Recep Tayyip Erdoğan 291,231 31.98
HDP Selahattin Demirtaş 122,561 13.46
Total votes 910,572 100.00
Rejected ballots 12,537 1.36
Turnout 923,109 77.31
Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu win

References

  1. ^ a b c Left the DSP in 2001 to join the newly founded YTP.
  2. ^ Left his party in 2005 and briefly joined the SHP before becoming independent once again.
  3. ^ Left his party and crossed over to Anavatan in 2004.
  4. ^ Left his party and crossed over to Motherland in 2005.
  5. ^ Served as transport minister before leaving his party in 2002 and joining the BBP.
  6. ^ Ran in 2011 as an independent candidate and joined the BDP afted being elected.
  7. ^ Ali Er left the Motherland Party in August 2002 to join the AK Party, on whose ticket he ran in 2002.
  8. ^ Expelled from his party in 2000; subsequently served as an independent.
  9. ^ [1] High Electoral Commission of Turkey
  10. ^ DSP in 2011 is compared to CHP in 2007, under whose list it ran that year
  11. ^ 2014 il bazında aday oyları Yüksek Seçim Kurulu (in Turkish) [dead link‍]

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