Istanbul (electoral districts)

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Istanbul
electoral district
for the Grand National Assembly of Turkey
Istanbul in Turkey.svg
Istanbul shown within Turkey
Province Istanbul
Electorate10,559,686
Current electoral district
Created 1923
Seats98
Subdistricts 1st district
2nd district
3rd district
AK Party
43 / 98
CHP
27 / 98
HDP
12 / 98
MHP
8 / 98
İYİ
8 / 98

Istanbul is a Turkish province divided into three electoral districts of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey. It elects ninety-eight members of parliament (deputies) to represent the province of the same name for a five-year term by the D'Hondt method, a party-list proportional representation system.

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The first district is situated on the Anatolian side of İstanbul on the east of the Bosphorus. The second and third electoral district are both on the European side, with the third situated to the west of the second. The first and third districts, electing 35 MPs, are the largest electoral districts of Turkey in terms of members elected.

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. Istanbul has the largest number of allocated seats and also the largest number of electoral districts within its provincial boundaries.

The province's administrative districts ( ilçe ) are divided among three electoral districts as follows: [1]

The three electoral districts of Istanbul

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First electoral district (30 MPs)
Second electoral district (27 MPs)
Third electoral district (28 MPs) Electoral district map of Istanbul.svg
The three electoral districts of Istanbul
1st district 2nd district 3rd district

General elections

2011

General Election 2011: İstanbul
PartyCandidates standingVotesSeats won
1st 2nd 3rd TotalNumber%swing 1st 2nd 3rd Total electedchange ±
AK Party
30
27
28
85
3,931,210
49.38
Increase2.svg4.22
16
15
15
46 / 85
Increase2.svg7
CHP
30
27
28
85
2,492,910
31.31
Increase2.svg4.32
11
9
9
29 / 85
Increase2.svg7
MHP
30
27
28
85
747,666
9.39
Decrease2.svg1.05
2
2
3
7 / 85
Steady2.svg0
Independents
12
8
10
30
425,417
5.34
Decrease2.svg0.53
1
1
1
3 / 85
Increase2.svg1
Felicity
30
27
28
85
129,030
1.62
Decrease2.svg1.41
0
0
0
0 / 85
Steady2.svg0
HAS Party
30
27
28
85
57,399
0.72
Increase2.svg0.72
0
0
0
0 / 85
Steady2.svg0
BBP
30
27
28
85
50,023
0.63
Increase2.svg0.63
0
0
0
0 / 85
Steady2.svg0
Democrat
30
27
28
85
33,122
0.42
Decrease2.svg2.66
0
0
0
0 / 85
Steady2.svg0
HEPAR
30
27
28
85
32,740
0.41
Increase2.svg0.41
0
0
0
0 / 85
Steady2.svg0
Democratic Left
30
27
28
85
19,489
0.24
N/A
0
0
0
0 / 85
Steady2.svg0
Communist
30
27
28
85
16,626
0.21
Decrease2.svg0.01
0
0
0
0 / 85
Steady2.svg0
Nation
30
27
28
85
14,831
0.19
Increase2.svg0.19
0
0
0
0 / 85
Steady2.svg0
Nationalist Conservative
30
27
28
85
4,321
0.05
Increase2.svg0.05
0
0
0
0 / 85
Steady2.svg0
Liberal Democrat
30
27
28
85
3,364
0.04
Decrease2.svg0.01
0
0
0
0 / 85
Steady2.svg0
DYP
30
0
0
30
2,759
0.03
Increase2.svg0.03
0
0
0
0 / 85
Steady2.svg0
Labour
0
0
0
0
0
0.00
Steady2.svg0.00
0
0
0
0 / 85
Steady2.svg0
Total
7,960,907
100.00
Steady2.svg
30
27
28
85
Increase2.svg15
Rejected ballots
175,733
2.17
Decrease2.svg2.86
8,112,340
86.32
Increase2.svg4.33
AK Party hold
Majority
1,436,300
18.04
Decrease2.svg0.13

June 2015

Abbr.PartyVotes%
AK Party Justice and Development Party 3,393,862
CHP Republican People's Party 2,440,167
HDP Peoples' Democratic Party 1,030,808
MHP Nationalist Movement Party 918,540
SP Felicity Party 177,713
Other334,488
Total8,295,578
Turnout81.08
source: YSK

November 2015

Abbr.PartyVotes%
AK Party Justice and Development Party 4,381,816
CHP Republican People's Party 2,736,490
HDP Peoples' Democratic Party 904,793
MHP Nationalist Movement Party 772,549
SP Felicity Party 67,935
Other125,509
Total8,989,092
Turnout87.17
source: YSK

2018

Abbr.PartyVotes%
AK Party Justice and Development Party 3,821,773
CHP Republican People's Party 2,429,519
HDP Peoples' Democratic Party 1,146,449
MHP Nationalist Movement Party 745,268
IYI Good Party 738,171
SP Felicity Party 136,652
Other137,286
Total9,155,118
Turnout86.70
source: YSK

Presidential elections

2014

Presidential Election 2014: İstanbul [2]
PartyCandidateVotes%
AK Party Recep Tayyip Erdoğan 3,568,047 49.83
Independent Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu 2,941,20741.08
HDP Selahattin Demirtaş 650,6539.09
Total votes7,159,907 100.00
Rejected ballots104,4091.44
Turnout 7,264,31672.80
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan win

2018

Presidential Election 2018: İstanbul [3]
PartyCandidateVotes%
AK Party Recep Tayyip Erdoğan 4,578,526 50.00
CHP Muharrem İnce 3,378,03236.89
HDP Selahattin Demirtaş 661,7747.23
İYİ Meral Akşener 435,5494.76
SAADET Temel Karamollaoğlu 86,1450.94
Patriotic Doğu Perinçek 16,6830.18
Total votes9,156,889 100.00
Rejected ballots147,7311.59
Turnout 9,304,62088.11
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan win

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References

  1. "Allocation of Turkey's parliamentary MPs by province" (PDF). 2011 general election literature. Supreme Electoral Commission of Turkey. Retrieved 30 December 2012.
  2. 2014 il bazında aday oylarıYüksek Seçim Kurulu (in Turkish) Archived 2012-07-10 at the Wayback Machine
  3. "2018 Cumhurbaşkanlığı Seçimleri". Habertürk. Retrieved 1 April 2024.

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