Mersin (electoral district)

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Mersin
electoral district
for the Grand National Assembly of Turkey
Mersin in Turkey.svg
Mersin shown within Turkey
Province Mersin
Electorate1,304,186
Current electoral district
Created 1923
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.

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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)
MPEdip Özgenç [1]
DSP / YTP
Ali Oksal
CHP
Aytuğ Atıcı
CHP
MPAkif Serin [1]
DSP / YTP
Ersoy Bulut [2]
CHP
Vahap Seçer
CHP
Hüseyin Çamak
CHP
MPMustafa İstemihan Talay [1]
DSP / YTP
Hüseyin Güler [3]
CHP / Anavatan
İsa Gök
CHP
Durmuş Fikri Sağlar
CHP
MPYalçın Kaya
MHP
Hüseyin Özcan [4]
CHP / Anavatan
Ali Rıza Öztürk
CHP
Baki Şimşek
MHP
MPHidayet Kılınç
MHP
Mustafa Özyürek
CHP
Mehmet Şandır
MHP
Oktay Öztürk
MHP
MPCahit Tekelioğlu
MHP
Şefik Zengin
CHP
Akif Akkuş
MHP
Ali Öz
MHP
MPEnis Öksüz [5]
MHP / BBP
Vahit Çekmez
CHP
Kadir Ural
MHP
Ertuğrul Kürkçü [6]
Independent (BDP)
Dengir Mir Mehmet Fırat
HDP
MPAli Er [7]
Motherland / AK Party
Mehmet Zafer Çağlayan
AK Party
Çilem Öz
HDP
MPRüştü Kazım Yücelen
Motherland
Ömer İnan
AK Party
Çiğdem Münevver Ökten
AK Party
Mustafa Muhammet Gültak
AK Party
MPTurhan Güven
DYP
Saffet Benli
AK Party / Motherland
Kürşad Tüzmen
AK Party
Ahmet Tevfik Uzun
AK Party
Yılmaz Tezcan
AK Party
MPAyfer Yılmaz
DYP
Mustafa Eyiceoğlu
AK Party
Mehmet Zafer Üskül
AK Party
Nebi Bozkur
AK Party
Muhsin Kızılkaya
AK Party
MPAli Güngör [8]
MHP / Independent
Dengir Mir Mehmet Fırat
AK Party
Kadir Ural
MHP
Seat abolished

General elections

2011

2011 Turkish general election: Mersin [9]
ListCandidatesVotesOf total (%)± from prev.
AK Party Mehmet Zafer Çağlayan, Ahmet Tevfik Uzun, Nebi Bozkur, Çiğdem Münevver Ökten311,05032.00
CHP Aytuğ Atıcı, Vahap Seçer, İsa Gök, Ali Rıza Öztürk310,71431.96
MHP Mehmet Şandır, Ali Öz224,47723.09
IndependentsErtuğrul Kürkçü93,8769.66
Büyük Birlik None elected69540.72
DP None elected63920.66
SAADET None elected48630.50
HAS Party None elected36320.37N/A
DYP None elected22160.23
MP None elected21220.22
DSP None elected18520.19'"`UNIQ−−ref−0000000D−QINU`"'
TKP None elected15200.16
HEPAR None elected14870.15
Nationalist Conservative None elected8910.09
Labour None elected0
Liberal Democrat None elected0
Turnout 521,08688.16

June 2015

Abbr.PartyVotes%
CHP Republican People's Party 298,278
AK Party Justice and Development Party 266,760
MHP Nationalist Movement Party 255,705
HDP Peoples' Democratic Party 184,018
SP Felicity Party 10,603
Other15,267
Total1,030,631
Turnout86.62
source: YSK

November 2015

Abbr.PartyVotes%
AK Party Justice and Development Party 325,723
CHP Republican People's Party 319,630
MHP Nationalist Movement Party 224,219
HDP Peoples' Democratic Party 156,873
SP Felicity Party 3,765
Other18,506
Total1,048,716
Turnout87.41
source: YSK

2018

Abbr.PartyVotes%
AK Party Justice and Development Party 302,200
CHP Republican People's Party 296,514
HDP Peoples' Democratic Party 186,663
IYI Good Party 151,924
MHP Nationalist Movement Party 139,581
SP Felicity Party 7,515
HÜDA-PAR Free Cause Party 4,486
Other13,675
Total1,102,558
Turnout88.45
source: YSK

Presidential elections

2014

Presidential Election 2014: Mersin [10]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Independent Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu 496,78054.56
AK Party Recep Tayyip Erdoğan 291,23131.98
HDP Selahattin Demirtaş 122,56113.46
Total votes910,572 100.00
Rejected ballots12,5371.36
Turnout 923,10977.31
Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu win

References

  1. 1 2 3 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. High Electoral Commission of Turkey
  10. 2014 il bazında aday oyları Yüksek Seçim Kurulu (in Turkish) [ dead link ]

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