Rize (electoral district)

Rize
electoral district
for the Grand National Assembly of Turkey
Rize highlighted in red on a beige political map of Turkeym
Rize shown within Turkey
ProvinceRize
Electorate196,854
Current electoral district
Created1920
Seats3
Historical
  • 4 (1995-1999)
    3 (1991-1995)
    4 (1961-1991)
    6 (1954-1961)
MPs
List
Turnout at last election87.96%
AK Party
2 / 3
CHP
1 / 3

Rize is an electoral district of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey. It elects three 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.

As a small electoral district, Rize's seat allocation has oscillated between three and four seats over the last two decades.

Rize was the district from which former prime minister Mesut Yılmaz was elected, first for his Anavatan and later as an independent.

MPs for Rize, 1999 onwards
Seat 1999 (21st parliament) 2002 (22nd parliament) 2007 (23rd parliament) 2011 (24th parliament) June 2015 (25th parliament)
MP Mesut Yılmaz
Motherland 		Abdülkadir Kart
AK Party 		Mesut Yılmaz
Independent 		Hayati Yazıcı
AK Party 		Hikmet Ayar
AK Party
MP Ahmet Kabil
Motherland 		İlyas Çakır
AK Party 		Bayram Ali Bayramoğlu
AK Party 		Hasan Karal
AK Party
MP Mehmet Bekaroğlu
Virtue 		İmdat Sütlüoğlu
AK Party 		Lütfi Çırakoğlu
AK Party 		Nusret Bayraktar
AK Party 		Osman Aşkın Bak
AK Party

General elections

2011

2011 Turkish general election: Rize[1]
List Candidates Votes Of total (%) ± from prev.
AK Party Hayati Yazıcı, Hasan Karal, Nusret Bayraktar 134,549 68.91
CHP None elected 33,408 17.11
MHP None elected 14,929 7.65
SAADET None elected 6241 3.20
HAS Party None elected 1743 0.89
DP None elected 1142 0.58
Büyük Birlik None elected 806 0.41
Independent None elected 679 0.35
HEPAR None elected 481 0.25
DSP None elected 348 0.18 '"`UNIQ−−ref−00000009−QINU`"'
Labour None elected 239 0.12
DYP None elected 206 0.11
Nationalist Conservative None elected 184 0.09
TKP None elected 157 0.08
Liberal Democrat None elected 79 0.04
MP None elected 66 0.03
Turnout 195,257 85.06

June 2015

Abbr. Party Votes %
AK Party Justice and Development Party 131,168 66.8%
CHP Republican People's Party 37,110 18.9%
MHP Nationalist Movement Party 15,870 8.1%
SP Felicity Party 6,798 3.5%
Other 5,526 2.8%
Total 196,472
Turnout 82.36
source: YSK

November 2015

Abbr. Party Votes %
AK Party Justice and Development Party 152,923 75.9%
CHP Republican People's Party 29,970 14.9%
MHP Nationalist Movement Party 10,815 5.4%
SP Felicity Party 2,997 1.5%
Other 4,829 2.4%
Total 201,534
Turnout 84.02
source: YSK

2018

Abbr. Party Votes %
AK Party Justice and Development Party 139,948 64.3%
CHP Republican People's Party 27,800 12.8%
MHP Nationalist Movement Party 26,907 12.4%
IYI Good Party 13,088 6%
SP Felicity Party 4,096 1.9%
Other 5,768 2.7%
Total 217,507
Turnout 88.02
source: YSK

Presidential elections

2014

Presidential Election 2014: Rize[3]
Party Candidate Votes %
AK Party Recep Tayyip Erdoğan 148,641 80.57
Independent Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu 33,708 18.27
HDP Selahattin Demirtaş 2,137 1.16
Total votes 184,486 100.00
Rejected ballots 2,584 1.91
Turnout 188,070 76.61
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan win

References

  1. ^ [1] Electoral Commission
  2. ^ DSP in 2011 is compared to CHP in 2007, under whose list it ran that year
  3. ^ 2014 il bazında aday oyları Yüksek Seçim Kurulu (in Turkish) [dead link‍]

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