Yozgat (electoral district)

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Yozgat
electoral district
for the Grand National Assembly of Turkey
Yozgat in Turkey.svg
Yozgat shown within Turkey
Province Yozgat
Electorate257,313
Current electoral district
Created 1920
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.

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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. 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)
MPLütfullah Kayalar
Anavatan
Bekir Bozdağ
AK Party
Abdulkadir Akgül
AK Party
MPİlyas Arslan
FP
Mehmet Çiçek
AK Party
Ertuğrul Soysal
AK Party
MPİlyas Arslan
FP
İlyas Arslan
AK Party
Abdülkadir Akgül
AK Party
Yusuf Başer
AK Party
MPAhmet Erol Ersoy
MHP
Emin Koç
CHP
Mehmet Ekici
MHP
Sadir Durmaz
MHP
MPMesut Türker
MHP
Mehmet Erdemir
AK Party
Osman Coşkun
AK Party
Seat abolished
MPŞuayip Üşenmez
MHP
Mehmet Yaşar Öztürk
AK Party
Seat abolished

General elections

2011

2011 Turkish general election: Yozgat [1]
ListCandidatesVotes%±
AK Party Bekir Bozdağ, Ertuğrul Soysal, Yusuf Başer170,91966.42
MHP Sadir Durmaz47,06218.29
CHP None elected28,16610.95
Büyük Birlik None elected32051.25
SAADET None elected28061.09
HAS Party None elected25200.98N/A
DP None elected10910.42
DYP None elected4050.16
Nationalist Conservative None elected2600.1
DSP None elected2530.1 [2]
Labour None elected2530.1
TKP None elected1590.06
MP None elected1300.05
Liberal Democrat None elected840.03
HEPAR None elected0
Turnout 257,31382.17

June 2015

Abbr.PartyVotes%
AKP Justice and Development Party 139,934
MHP Nationalist Movement Party 66,958
CHP Republican People's Party 21,626
SP Felicity Party 6,054
HDP Peoples' Democratic Party 2,298
Other3,130
Total240,000
Turnout81.61
source: YSK

November 2015

Abbr.PartyVotes%
AKP Justice and Development Party 157,622
MHP Nationalist Movement Party 30,374
Independent Lütfullah Kayalar 28,664
CHP Republican People's Party 17,904
SP Felicity Party 1,259
HDP Peoples' Democratic Party 1,202
Other6,124
Total243,149
Turnout83.56
source: YSK

2018

Abbr.PartyVotes%
AKP Justice and Development Party 131,340
MHP Nationalist Movement Party 62,006
CHP Republican People's Party 28,575
IYI Good Party 18,727
SP Felicity Party 2,966
HDP Peoples' Democratic Party 2,100
Other5,490
Total251,204
Turnout86.42
source: YSK

Presidential elections

2014

Presidential Election 2014: Yozgat [3]
PartyCandidateVotes%
AK Party Recep Tayyip Erdoğan 155,728 65.84
Independent Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu 78,56533.22
HDP Selahattin Demirtaş 2,2400.95
Total votes236,533 100.00
Rejected ballots2,6701.53
Turnout 240,20378.97
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan win

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References

  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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