Mersin (electoral district)

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.

Mersin
electoral district for the Grand National Assembly of Turkey
Mersin shown within Turkey
Province	Mersin
Electorate	1,304,186
Current electoral district
Created	1923
Seats	13 Historical 12 (1995-2011)
MPs	List Lütfi Elvan AKP Ali Cumhur Taşkın AKP Zeynep Gül Yılmaz AKP Hacı Özkan AKP Cengiz Gökçel CHP Alpay Antmen CHP Ali Mahir Başarır CHP Fatma Kurtulan HDP Rıdvan Turan HDP Zeki Hasan Sıdalı İYİ Behiç Çelik İYİ Baki Şimşek MHP Olcay Kılavuz MHP
Turnout at last election	88.75%
Representation
AK Party	4 / 13
CHP	3 / 13
HDP	2 / 13
İYİ	2 / 13
MHP	2 / 13
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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)
MP		Edip Özgenç[1] DSP / YTP		Ali Oksal CHP				Aytuğ Atıcı CHP
MP		Akif Serin[1] DSP / YTP		Ersoy Bulut[2] CHP		Vahap Seçer CHP				Hüseyin Çamak CHP
MP		Mustafa İstemihan Talay[1] DSP / YTP		Hüseyin Güler[3] CHP / Anavatan		İsa Gök CHP				Durmuş Fikri Sağlar CHP
MP		Yalçın Kaya MHP		Hüseyin Özcan[4] CHP / Anavatan		Ali Rıza Öztürk CHP				Baki Şimşek MHP
MP		Hidayet Kılınç MHP		Mustafa Özyürek CHP		Mehmet Şandır MHP				Oktay Öztürk MHP
MP		Cahit Tekelioğlu MHP		Şefik Zengin CHP		Akif Akkuş MHP		Ali Öz MHP
MP		Enis Öksüz[5] MHP / BBP		Vahit Çekmez CHP		Kadir Ural MHP		Ertuğrul Kürkçü[6] Independent (BDP)		Dengir Mir Mehmet Fırat HDP
MP		Ali Er[7] Motherland / AK Party						Mehmet Zafer Çağlayan AK Party		Çilem Öz HDP
MP		Rüştü Kazım Yücelen Motherland		Ömer İnan AK Party				Çiğdem Münevver Ökten AK Party		Mustafa Muhammet Gültak AK Party
MP		Turhan Güven DYP		Saffet Benli AK Party / Motherland		Kürşad Tüzmen AK Party		Ahmet Tevfik Uzun AK Party		Yılmaz Tezcan AK Party
MP		Ayfer Yılmaz DYP		Mustafa Eyiceoğlu AK Party		Mehmet Zafer Üskül AK Party		Nebi Bozkur AK Party		Muhsin Kızılkaya AK Party
MP		Ali Güngör[8] MHP / Independent		Dengir Mir Mehmet Fırat AK Party		Kadir Ural MHP	Seat abolished

General elections

2011

2011 Turkish general election: Mersin[9]
List		Candidates	Votes	Of total (%)	± from prev.
	AK Party	Mehmet Zafer Çağlayan, Ahmet Tevfik Uzun, Nebi Bozkur, Çiğdem Münevver Ökten	311,050	32.00
	CHP	Aytuğ Atıcı, Vahap Seçer, İsa Gök, Ali Rıza Öztürk	310,714	31.96
	MHP	Mehmet Şandır, Ali Öz	224,477	23.09
	Independents	Ertuğrul Kürkçü	93,876	9.66
	Büyük Birlik	None elected	6954	0.72
	DP	None elected	6392	0.66
	SAADET	None elected	4863	0.50
	HAS Party	None elected	3632	0.37	N/A
	DYP	None elected	2216	0.23
	MP	None elected	2122	0.22
	DSP	None elected	1852	0.19	'"`UNIQ−−ref−0000000D−QINU`"'
	TKP	None elected	1520	0.16
	HEPAR	None elected	1487	0.15
	Nationalist Conservative	None elected	891	0.09
	Labour	None elected	0
	Liberal Democrat	None elected	0
Turnout			521,086	88.16

June 2015

Abbr.		Party	Votes	%
	CHP	Republican People's Party	298,278	28.9%
	AK Party	Justice and Development Party	266,760	25.9%
	MHP	Nationalist Movement Party	255,705	24.8%
	HDP	Peoples' Democratic Party	184,018	17.9%
	SP	Felicity Party	10,603	1%
		Other	15,267	1.5%
Total			1,030,631
Turnout			86.62
source: YSK

November 2015

Abbr.		Party	Votes	%
	AK Party	Justice and Development Party	325,723	31.1%
	CHP	Republican People's Party	319,630	30.5%
	MHP	Nationalist Movement Party	224,219	21.4%
	HDP	Peoples' Democratic Party	156,873	15%
	SP	Felicity Party	3,765	0.4%
		Other	18,506	1.8%
Total			1,048,716
Turnout			87.41
source: YSK

2018

Abbr.		Party	Votes	%
	AK Party	Justice and Development Party	302,200	27.4%
	CHP	Republican People's Party	296,514	26.9%
	HDP	Peoples' Democratic Party	186,663	16.9%
	IYI	Good Party	151,924	13.8%
	MHP	Nationalist Movement Party	139,581	12.7%
	SP	Felicity Party	7,515	0.7%
	HÜDA-PAR	Free Cause Party	4,486	0.4%
		Other	13,675	1.2%
Total			1,102,558
Turnout			88.45
source: YSK

Presidential elections

2014

Presidential Election 2014: Mersin^[10]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Independent	Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu	496,780	54.56
	AK Party	Recep Tayyip Erdoğan	291,231	31.98
	HDP	Selahattin Demirtaş	122,561	13.46
Total votes			910,572	100.00
Rejected ballots			12,537	1.36
Turnout			923,109	77.31
	Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu win

References

1. 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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