Yozgat (electoral district)

Yozgat
electoral district
for the Grand National Assembly of Turkey
Yozgat highlighted in red on a beige political map of Turkeym
Yozgat shown within Turkey
ProvinceYozgat
Electorate257,313
Current electoral district
Created1920
Seats4
Historical
  • 6 (1995–2011)
    5 (1983–1991)
    6 (1961–1983)
    9 (1957–1961)
    8 (1954–1957)
MPs
List
  • Abdülkadir Akgül AKP
    Ertuğrul Soysal AKP
    Yusuf Başer AKP
    Sadir Durmaz MHP
Turnout at last election82.17%
AK Party
2 / 4
MHP
1 / 4
İYİ
1 / 4

Yozgat is an electoral district of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey. It elects 4 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. Yozgat's seat allocation has fluctuated from a historical high of 9 seats in the 1950s to four seats today, its lowest level of representation to date.

MPs for Yozgat, 1999 onwards
Seat 1999 (21st parliament) 2002 (22nd parliament) 2007 (23rd parliament) 2011 (24th parliament) June 2015 (25th parliament)
MP Lütfullah Kayalar
Anavatan 		Bekir Bozdağ
AK Party 		Abdulkadir Akgül
AK Party
MP İlyas Arslan
FP 		Mehmet Çiçek
AK Party 		Ertuğrul Soysal
AK Party
MP İlyas Arslan
FP 		İlyas Arslan
AK Party 		Abdülkadir Akgül
AK Party 		Yusuf Başer
AK Party
MP Ahmet Erol Ersoy
MHP 		Emin Koç
CHP 		Mehmet Ekici
MHP 		Sadir Durmaz
MHP
MP Mesut Türker
MHP 		Mehmet Erdemir
AK Party 		Osman Coşkun
AK Party 		Seat abolished
MP Şuayip Üşenmez
MHP 		Mehmet Yaşar Öztürk
AK Party 		Seat abolished

General elections

2011

2011 Turkish general election: Yozgat[1]
List Candidates Votes Of total (%) ± from prev.
AK Party Bekir Bozdağ, Ertuğrul Soysal, Yusuf Başer 170,919 66.42
MHP Sadir Durmaz 47,062 18.29
CHP None elected 28,166 10.95
Büyük Birlik None elected 3205 1.25
SAADET None elected 2806 1.09
HAS Party None elected 2520 0.98 N/A
DP None elected 1091 0.42
DYP None elected 405 0.16
Nationalist Conservative None elected 260 0.1
DSP None elected 253 0.1 '"`UNIQ−−ref−00000009−QINU`"'
Labour None elected 253 0.1
TKP None elected 159 0.06
MP None elected 130 0.05
Liberal Democrat None elected 84 0.03
HEPAR None elected 0
Turnout 257,313 82.17

June 2015

Abbr. Party Votes %
AKP Justice and Development Party 139,934 58.3%
MHP Nationalist Movement Party 66,958 27.9%
CHP Republican People's Party 21,626 9%
SP Felicity Party 6,054 2.5%
HDP Peoples' Democratic Party 2,298 1%
Other 3,130 1.3%
Total 240,000
Turnout 81.61
source: YSK

November 2015

Abbr. Party Votes %
AKP Justice and Development Party 157,622 64.8%
MHP Nationalist Movement Party 30,374 12.5%
Independent Lütfullah Kayalar 28,664 11.8%
CHP Republican People's Party 17,904 7.4%
SP Felicity Party 1,259 0.5%
HDP Peoples' Democratic Party 1,202 0.5%
Other 6,124 2.5%
Total 243,149
Turnout 83.56
source: YSK

2018

Abbr. Party Votes %
AKP Justice and Development Party 131,340 52.3%
MHP Nationalist Movement Party 62,006 24.7%
CHP Republican People's Party 28,575 11.4%
IYI Good Party 18,727 7.5%
SP Felicity Party 2,966 1.2%
HDP Peoples' Democratic Party 2,100 0.8%
Other 5,490 2.2%
Total 251,204
Turnout 86.42
source: YSK

Presidential elections

2014

Presidential Election 2014: Yozgat[3]
Party Candidate Votes %
AK Party Recep Tayyip Erdoğan 155,728 65.84
Independent Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu 78,565 33.22
HDP Selahattin Demirtaş 2,240 0.95
Total votes 236,533 100.00
Rejected ballots 2,670 1.53
Turnout 240,203 78.97
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan win

References

  1. ^ [1] High Electoral Commission of Turkey
  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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