Mardin (electoral district)

Mardin is an electoral district of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey. It elects six 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.

Mardin
electoral district for the Grand National Assembly of Turkey
Mardin shown within Turkey
Province	Mardin
Electorate	542.046
Current electoral district
Created	1920
Seats	6 Historical 5 (1991-1995) 6 (1987-1991) 5 (1983-1987) 6 (1961-1983) 8 (1957-1961) 7 (1954-1957)
MPs	List Salihe Aydeniz DEM Party Kamuran Tanhan DEM Party Beri̇tan Güneş Altin DEM Party George Aslan DEM Party Faruk Kiliç AK Party Muhammed Adak AK Party
Turnout at last election	82.39%
Representation
DEM	4 / 6
AK Party	2 / 6
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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. Mardin's seat allocation has varied little over the last sixty years, keeping around the six seats it has today.

MPs for Mardin, 1999 onwards
Seat		1999 (21st parliament)		2002 (22nd parliament)		2007 (23rd parliament)		2011 (24th parliament)		June 2015 (25th parliament)		November 2015 (26th parliament)		2018 (27th parliament)
1		Fehim Adak Virtue		Selahattin Cebeli AK Party		Gönül Bekin Şahkulubey AK Party				Orhan Miroğlu AK Party		Mithat Sancar HDP		Mithat Sancar HDP
2		Metin Musaoğlu DYP		Nihat Eri AK Party		Cüneyt Yüksel AK Party		Abdurrahim Akdağ AK Party		Mithat Sancar HDP		Erol Dora HDP		Pero Dundar HDP
3		Veysi Şahin DYP		Mehmet Beşir Hamidi AK Party		Mehmet Halit Demir AK Party		Muammer Güler AK Party		Mehmet Ali Aslan HDP		Gülser Yıldırım HDP		Ebru Günay HDP
4		Süleyman Çelebi Motherland		Mahmut Duyan CHP		Süleyman Çelebi AK Party		Erol Dora[1] Independent (BDP) / HDP				Ali Atalan HDP		Tuma Çelik HDP
5		Ömer Ertaş Motherland		Muharrem Doğan CHP		Ahmet Türk[2] DTP / Independent				Enise Güneyli HDP		Orhan Miroğlu AK Party		Şeyhmus Dinçel AK Party
6		Mustafa Kemal Tuğmaner DSP		Süleyman Bölünmez Independent'		Emine Ayna[3] Independent (DTP)		Gülser Yıldırım[4] Independent (DTP/BDP) / HDP				Ceyda Bölünmez Çankırı AK Party		Cengiz Demirkaya AK Party

General elections

2011

Unelected candidates in small text.

2011 Turkish general election: Mardin^[5][6]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AK Party	Muammer Güler, Gönül Bekin Şahkulubey, Abdurrahim Akdağ	103,402	32.17
	Independent	Ahmet Türk	59,350	18.52
	Independent	Gülser Yıldırım	55,505	17.32
	Independent	Erol Dora	51,980	16.22
	Independent	Süleyman Bölünmez	28,746	8.97
	CHP	None elected	11,953	3.72
	Büyük Birlik	None elected	2842	0.88
	HAS Party	None elected	2097	0.65	N/A
	MHP	None elected	2041	0.64
	SAADET	None elected	895	0.28
	DP	None elected	845	0.26
	DSP	None elected	658	0.20	'"`UNIQ−−ref−0000000E−QINU`"'
	TKP	None elected	474	0.15
	Nationalist Conservative	None elected	240	0.07
	MP	None elected	234	0.07
	Liberal Democrat	None elected	129	0.04
	DYP	None elected	0
	HEPAR	None elected	0
	Labour	None elected	0
Turnout			321,391	82.39

June 2015

Abbr.		Party	Votes	%
	HDP	Peoples' Democratic Party	276,920	73.3%
	AK Party	Justice and Development Party	72,645	19.2%
	HÜDA-PAR	Free Cause Party	5,312	1.4%
	MHP	Nationalist Movement Party	4,198	1.1%
	CHP	Republican People's Party	3,736	1%
		Other	15,212	4%
Total			378.023
Turnout			87.30%
source: YSK

November 2015

Abbr.		Party	Votes	%
	HDP	Peoples' Democratic Party	258,384	68.4%
	AK Party	Justice and Development Party	107,804	28.5%
	CHP	Republican People's Party	5,087	1.3%
	MHP	Nationalist Movement Party	2,959	0.8%
		Other	3,733	1%
Total			377,967
Turnout			86.53%
source: YSK

2018

Abbr.		Party	Votes	%
	HDP	Peoples' Democratic Party	233,657	60.6%
	AK Party	Justice and Development Party	113,634	29.5%
	CHP	Republican People's Party	10,915	2.8%
	MHP	Nationalist Movement Party	9,387	2.4%
	HÜDA-PAR	Free Cause Party	8,253	2.1%
	IYI	Good Party	3,952	1%
	SP	Felicity Party	3,151	0.8%
		Other	2,232	0.6%
Total			385,281
Turnout			84.10%
source: YSK

2023

Abbr.		Party	Votes	%
	YSGP	Party of Greens and the Left Future	244.036	54.4%
	AK Party	Justice and Development Party	112.572	25.1%
	CHP	Republican People's Party	31.993	7.1%
		Independent	22.340	5%
	MHP	Nationalist Movement Party	15.572	3.5%
	IYI	Good Party	5.362	1.2%
	YRP	New Welfare Party	5.037	1.1%
		Other	10.243	2.3%
Total			448.603
Turnout			82.76%
source: YSK

Presidential elections

2014

Presidential Election 2014: Mardin^[7]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	HDP	Selahattin Demirtaş	198,542	60.90
	AK Party	Recep Tayyip Erdoğan	119,362	36.61
	Independent	Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu	8,094	2.48
Total votes			325,998	100.00
Rejected ballots			3,845	1.17
Turnout			329,843	76.45
	Selahattin Demirtaş win

References

1. Ran in 2011 as an independent candidate and joined the BDP afted being elected.
2. Ran as an independent candidate in 2007 and joined the DTP after being elected. Was expelled as an MP when that party was closed down in 2009. Ran as an independent in 2011 and is currently prohibited from joining any political party. Resigned in 2014 to contest the 2014 local elections and was elected as the Mayor of Mardin.
3. Ran as an independent candidate in 2007 and joined the DTP after being elected.
4. Ran as an independent candidate in 2011 and joined the BDP after being elected.
5. Turkish electoral commission
6. Hürriyet
7. 2011 Milletvekili Kesin Sonuçları Iğdır ^{[dead link]}