Tekirdağ (electoral district)

Tekirdağ is an electoral district of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey. It elects 6 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.

Tekirdağ
electoral district
for the Grand National Assembly of Turkey
Tekirdağ highlighted in red on a beige political map of Turkeym
Tekirdağ shown within Turkey
ProvinceTekirdağ
Electorate582,567
Current electoral district
Created1920
Seats6
Historical
  • 5 (1995-2011)
    4 (1961-1995)
    6 (1954-1961)
MPs
List
  • Faik Öztrak CHP
    Candan Yüceer CHP
    Emre Köprülü CHP
    Tevfik Ziyaeddin Akbulut AKP
    Özlem Yemişçi AKP
    Bülent Belen MHP
Turnout at last election89,31%
CHP
3 / 6
AKP
2 / 6
MHP
1 / 6

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. The number of seats allocated to Tekirdağ has hovered between four and six for the past sixty years.

MPs for Tekirdağ, 1999 onwards
Seat 1999 (21st parliament) 2002 (22nd parliament) 2007 (23rd parliament) 2011 (24th parliament) June 2015 (25th parliament)
MP Ahmet Zamantılı
DSP		 Erdoğan Kaplan
CHP		 Faik Öztrak
CHP
MP Bayram Fırat Dayanıklı
DSP		 Enis Tütüncü
CHP		 Candan Yüceer
CHP
MP No seat Emre Köprülü
CHP
MP Fevzi Aytekin
DSP		 Tevfik Ziyaeddin Akbulut
AK Party		 Mustafa Yel
AK Party
MP Enis Sülün
Anavatan		 Ahmet Kambur
AK Party		 Necip Taylan
AK Party		 Özlem Yemişçi
AK Party		 Ayşe Doğan
AK Party
MP Nihan İlgün
DYP		 Mehmet Nuri Saygun
CHP		 Kemalettin Nalcı
MHP		 Bülent Belen
MHP

General elections

2011
2011 Turkish general election: Tekirdağ[1]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
CHP Faik Öztrak, Candan Yüceer, Emre Köprülü 226,824 44.41
AKP Yevfik Ziyaeddin Akbulut, Özlem Yemişçi 183,548 35.94
MHP Bülent Belen 68,483 13.41
Independent Kerem Tosun[2] 8001 1.57
HAS Party None elected 3935 0.77 N/A
DP None elected 3765 0.74
HEPAR None elected 3692 0.72
Felicity None elected 3373 1.66
DSP None elected 2998 0.59 [3]
BBP None elected 2333 0.46
Labour None elected 1624 0.32
TKP None elected 967 0.19
Nation None elected 480 0.09
Nationalist Conservative None elected 478 0.09
Liberal Democrat None elected 231 0.051
DYP None elected 0
Turnout 510,732 89.31

June 2015
Abbr. Party Votes %
CHP Republican People's Party 253,295 44.5%
AKP Justice and Development Party 177,458 31.2%
MHP Nationalist Movement Party 86,333 15.2%
HDP Peoples' Democratic Party 31,543 5.5%
Other 20,750 3.6%
Total 569,379
Turnout 87.49%
source: YSK

November 2015
Abbr. Party Votes %
CHP Republican People's Party 267,409 45.7%
AKP Justice and Development Party 217,582 37.2%
MHP Nationalist Movement Party 60,056 10.3%
HDP Peoples' Democratic Party 25,472 4.4%
Other 14,961 2.6%
Total 585,480
Turnout 88.06%
source: YSK

2018
Abbr. Party Votes %
CHP Republican People's Party 248,539 38.6%
AKP Justice and Development Party 216,811 33.6%
IYI Good Party 76,707 11.9%
MHP Nationalist Movement Party 47,860 7.4%
HDP Peoples' Democratic Party 40,274 6.2%
Other 14,302 2.2%
Total 644,493
Turnout 89.24%
source: YSK

Presidential elections

2014
Presidential Election 2014: Tekirdağ[4]
Party Candidate Votes %
Independent Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu 291,069 57.37
AKP Recep Tayyip Erdoğan 193,905 38.22
HDP Selahattin Demirtaş 22,390 4.41
Total votes 507,364 100.00
Rejected ballots 7,580 1.47
Turnout 514,944 79.81
Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu win

References
  1. High Electoral Commission of Turkey
  2. Arslan, Ferit (10 April 2011). "BDP adaylarını açıkladı (BDP announces its candidates)". Radikal. Retrieved 7 August 2012.
  3. DSP in 2011 is compared to CHP in 2007, under whose list it ran that year
  4. 2014 il bazında aday oyları Yüksek Seçim Kurulu (in Turkish)

41°00′N 27°30′E

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